Well, we have our .org registered now the website has to be built, but in the meantime we are going to continue with postings on blogger while we devise a website. we will be setting up twitter too and changing the twits to post on here so no worries if you do not have a twitter account you can keep up with our progress on blogger.
As far as the pc thing goes we have not moved forward just yet. We have 4 kids and work so most of that will take place at night but mostly on the weekends. Hopefully we get things going fairly soon though.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Crucial Update!!!
So my wife and I got into a discussion about the direction I am headed in with this and we came to the conclusion that I am going about things in the wrong way. We have decided that I need to change direction a little and start off for writing apps for the ipod touch.
just to backup for a sec....We decided to call the non-profit the Through Our Eyes Project Organization. Well my wife actually as started this through her t-shirt shop on cafepress.com, and it just seemed to be a good fit for what I am looking to do. So we will just incoporate the tech thing under the same umbrella.
Through Our eyes will encompass a number of things for the Autism and disability community aiming specifically at the schools that are providing the necessary education for Autistic individuals to function in the world. We will use a vendor that is cenralized and well known to give people access to making donations to the various schools in form of financial gifts or purchasing things on a wish list and sending them directly to the school. This will take the handling of goods off our hands while providing a vehicle for the schools to get the things on their list. These things will be limited to a certain value to help promote the giving of donations. Some of the cash given will support the shipping of the items to the individual schools all over the country.
As for the technical aspect, we will continue to work on things and try to provide necessary software to individuals through ipod touch applications. We figure that the ipod touch is the better candidate than the iphone, but the software could be ported over to the iphone as well. ipod touch would be one of the gifts for the individuals if they cant afford it, but the software could be bought and donated as well. The way we look at it is that we could provide this to those that needed it as a low cost and donations would be given in some form maybe through paypal or something similar. There maybe changes to this. Remember these are just brainstorms and could be adjusted accordingly.
As for volunteers, we are looking for anybody that can program the ipod touch or many other devices. We hope that this grows so that we can help people as soon possible. We will be doing a web page soon, and will start some type of community for those that wish to help, but dont hesitate to email us at throughoureyesproject@gmail.com. We will be getting an official email soon, but for now this is the best place.
back to the story....
We did some research and found that we needed a Mac to really get the job done without hacking the phone and things of that sort. While this was a good idea, we set off to the mac store to do research on which mac we were going to purchase and such and found that it was pretty pricey to buy one. After asking an apple store employee a bunch of questions we left the store to rethink if there was anyway for us to do this without dropping tons of money on a mac.
Well during a brainstorm session i figured that we could set up a virtual machine and run a mac. So with that I began more research on the proper software to do this. Being a Unix Admin, I started looking at all of the open source programs out there. While vmware seems to be one of the better choices, I continued to search and found XEN and virtualbox. Both seemed to be what I wanted. Easy to setup and get started asap. So I decided to go with Virtualbox. If Virtualbox does not cut it, Ill move on to XEn and so on until I find a fit.
So far VirtualBox has been pretty simple. I got a Mac Instance setup, but am lacking the OS to fully bring it up. Did some searching and found a beta that really didnt seem to give me what I needed so most likely I will be off to purchase OS X Leopard in the very near future.
just to backup for a sec....We decided to call the non-profit the Through Our Eyes Project Organization. Well my wife actually as started this through her t-shirt shop on cafepress.com, and it just seemed to be a good fit for what I am looking to do. So we will just incoporate the tech thing under the same umbrella.
Through Our eyes will encompass a number of things for the Autism and disability community aiming specifically at the schools that are providing the necessary education for Autistic individuals to function in the world. We will use a vendor that is cenralized and well known to give people access to making donations to the various schools in form of financial gifts or purchasing things on a wish list and sending them directly to the school. This will take the handling of goods off our hands while providing a vehicle for the schools to get the things on their list. These things will be limited to a certain value to help promote the giving of donations. Some of the cash given will support the shipping of the items to the individual schools all over the country.
As for the technical aspect, we will continue to work on things and try to provide necessary software to individuals through ipod touch applications. We figure that the ipod touch is the better candidate than the iphone, but the software could be ported over to the iphone as well. ipod touch would be one of the gifts for the individuals if they cant afford it, but the software could be bought and donated as well. The way we look at it is that we could provide this to those that needed it as a low cost and donations would be given in some form maybe through paypal or something similar. There maybe changes to this. Remember these are just brainstorms and could be adjusted accordingly.
As for volunteers, we are looking for anybody that can program the ipod touch or many other devices. We hope that this grows so that we can help people as soon possible. We will be doing a web page soon, and will start some type of community for those that wish to help, but dont hesitate to email us at throughoureyesproject@gmail.com. We will be getting an official email soon, but for now this is the best place.
back to the story....
We did some research and found that we needed a Mac to really get the job done without hacking the phone and things of that sort. While this was a good idea, we set off to the mac store to do research on which mac we were going to purchase and such and found that it was pretty pricey to buy one. After asking an apple store employee a bunch of questions we left the store to rethink if there was anyway for us to do this without dropping tons of money on a mac.
Well during a brainstorm session i figured that we could set up a virtual machine and run a mac. So with that I began more research on the proper software to do this. Being a Unix Admin, I started looking at all of the open source programs out there. While vmware seems to be one of the better choices, I continued to search and found XEN and virtualbox. Both seemed to be what I wanted. Easy to setup and get started asap. So I decided to go with Virtualbox. If Virtualbox does not cut it, Ill move on to XEn and so on until I find a fit.
So far VirtualBox has been pretty simple. I got a Mac Instance setup, but am lacking the OS to fully bring it up. Did some searching and found a beta that really didnt seem to give me what I needed so most likely I will be off to purchase OS X Leopard in the very near future.
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