Can we find someone to continue developing ebook-speaker and daisy-player now that we lost Jos Lemmens?

[Florian Wille]

Hello Didier,
I read this morning on the Debian A11y List about Jos's passing. It hit
me in a vulnerable spot and leaves me with sadness.
Concerning daisy-player I sometimes conferred with Jos and reported Bugs
to him.
As to maintaing the package/code I don't think I can do that right now,
but I am certainly willing to read myself into his code and start
understanding it and in the future maybe working on it.
Someone would have to push it to github right? As I remenmber Jos did
not maintain the code there.

Regards
Florian

Am 07.01.22 um 11:05 schrieb Didier Spaier:
> Hello,
>
> as stated in http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/ Jos passed
> away on November 9, 2021.
>
> I had a phone call with his brother Kees this morning:
> https://www.tudelft.nl/en/eemcs/the-faculty/departments/applied-mathematics/mathematical-physics/people/lemmens-k
> http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/users/lemmens/
>
> He is OK for someone taking over the maintenance of ebook-speaker and daisy
> player and putting these software in a public git repository.
>
> I have mirrored http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl/dv/staff/lemmens/jlemmens.nl/ locally
> but have neither the skills nor the time to take over these software.
>
> Can any of you do that? Else, what would be the best way to find someone willing
> to do it?
>
> I wish you a Happy New Year.
>
> Cheers,
> Didier