[manjaro-dev] Update on Manjaro-arm and help with boxit

[kendell clark]

hi
This sounds wonderful. I'll add #manjaro-arm to my autoconnect list. I 
am actually part of the manjaro team and organization on github, so when 
manjaro on arm has matured a bit and you think it's ready, I can try to 
get it adopted as an official architecture. In the meantime, I'll see 
what I can do about getting sonar running on it. My co developer, kyle 
brouhard has a ... what did he call it, a uDroid x4, which is an arm 
board similar to but a little more powerful than the pi, with archlinux 
arm running on it currently. He wants to eventually have sonar running 
on them. I don't have any arm devices, but since they're so cheap 
nowadays I might just pick one up and play around with it. Def people 
deserve accessible software just as much as any other disabled people 
do. That being said, is there any software at all on linux for this? 
Since she has cochlear implants, she might be able to use accessible 
linux distributions, such as vinux, sonar, etc. If she has vision she 
may not even need them, and in that case you'll likely be able to make 
do with some amplifying devices to boost the volume of whatever it is 
she's listening to. I don't mean to pry, just trying to think of a 
starting point. The main speech text to speech synthesizer, espeak, 
apparently does not sound too good if you're at all hearing impaired, so 
we definitely need the feedback to improve it.
Thanks
Kendell clark



On 01/10/2016 11:16 PM, dodgejcr wrote:
> Kendell,
>
> Im glad you are excited, frankly I am as well. I am not a part of the
> Manjaro team so I can not speak of the progress or future plans of it.
> My hope is, to get a good sturdy base going for the Manjaro team to
> 'adopt' and turn into an official Manjaro project. In the mean time, I
> and another Manjaro user, Torei, was just talking in IRC one day about
> having these devices (Raspberry Pi) and how nice it would be to have
> Manjaro running on them.
>
> We both have a pretty good understanding of Linux and spend a lot of
> time in IRC helping newer people learn how to do things and fix some of
> the simple things that can go wrong when tinkering with the system. We
> feel that people who want to do some projects with ARM boards but do
> not have the knowledge to run install and configure Linux properly,
> should have an opportunity to benifit from the awewome thing that is
> Manjaro.
>
> Our hope is to keep in alignment with the original Manjaro mindset and
> make things easy for people to install, configure, and use so hopefully
> if we keep things as close as we can to that; Manjaro can easily adopt
> that project into creation at a much higher level of use.
>
> I think your idea of using a Manjaro-Arm (thus Sonar) as a way to
> provide computer use for those in need is a wonderful idea. I have a
> deaf daughter and am currently researching how to incoorperate computer
> use (including music and other audio) into her brand new cochlear
> implants. But the blind need it more and helping with that would be
> awesome. While we arent fully ready for anything at the moment, if you
> want to play around with what I have and adopt it early to your uses,
> join us in #manjaro-arm on freenode. I would be glad to share
> everything I have done and help you get the packages you need to move
> your project forward.
>
> Thanks
> --dodge
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