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Sébastien Jodogne, Reglue Win FSF 2014 Awards

posted by janrinok on Tuesday March 24 2015, @03:43AM   
from the shorter-speeches-than-at-the-oscars dept.

GNUnymous Coward writes:

The Free Software Foundation's annual conference LibrePlanet is over. Following a tradition two awards are given annually at the conference. The announcement of the event and the winners is here.

The winner of the Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 2014 is Belgian PhD Sébastien Jodogne for his work on medical imaging with his project Orthanc. The winner of the Award for Projects of Social Benefit in 2014 is Reglue which gives recycled GNU/Linux computers to underprivileged children and their families in Austin, TX.

• The Top Dog at REGLUE needs your help The Top Dog at REGLUE needs your help (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @04:20AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 24 2015, @04:20AM (#161802)

  Recycled Electronics and Gnu/Linux Used for Education (REGLUE) of Taylor, Texas (formerly The HeliOS Project of Austin) [google.com] has Ken Starks as its chief.
  The last count I heard was something over 1200 used computers delivered to needy kids.

  Some may remember when a teacher took away a kid's Linux CDs and wrote Ken a letter claiming that there is no such thing as Free Software and how HeliOS then gave her what-for in an open letter. [blogspot.com]

  Another example of Ken the retired G.I. not taking much crap was the ponytail incident. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [blogspot.com]

  In mid-2012, Ken's oncologist told him to go home and make himself comfortable and put his affairs in order.
  This was after his gal, Diane, had had a serious stroke.
  He found another doctor (who, apparently, had spent some time as a bare-knuckles fighter) and, long story short, the surgery got Ken another 2.5 years.
  This year, his cancer returned and he had another surgery which removed his larynx. [google.com]

  As a kid, Ken had a frightening experience due to a guy using one of those buzzers pressed against his throat to "speak".
  Ken doesn't want any part of freaking out any kids in that way.
  He has been looking for an out-of-the-box text-to-speech app that runs under Linux. [google.com]
  If he can get some help from someone who has experience with that, that would be great.

  -- gewg_

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• Dev needed for text-to-speech on Linux (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @09:50AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 01 2015, @09:50AM (#165329)

  Ken is still looking for a dev with an interest in this.
  March 30, 2015 [blogspot.com]

  If it's money you want, just say so and I will help raise it.
  [...]I am making it my personal challenge to see this through [...] whether it's by offering a programmer his monetary due for making this happen or getting the attention of a younger, more eager programmer trying to establish some street cred

  -- gewg_

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• Text-to-speech under Linux: Update (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @08:52AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2015, @08:52AM (#168236)

  An In-Depth Look at Text-to-Speech in Linux [fossforce.com]

  -- gewg_

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