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[Aspell-user] Financial Support Needed for the Continuing Development of
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Kevin Atkinson |
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[Aspell-user] Financial Support Needed for the Continuing Development of Aspell |
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Mon, 19 Apr 2004 04:48:24 -0400 (EDT) |
[Please distribute this document as widely as possible.]
In the past couple of months I have put a lot of time in developing
Aspell. This comes after over a year of non-development. Without some
serious financial support there is a very good chance that Aspell will
slip back into non-development mode as was the case for most of 2003.
I have had a lot of free time to put into Aspell since the only other
responsibility I've had was to finish up my masters thesis. I was hoping
to go on to a PhD program. However, my luck has not been so good as I
have yet to be accepted into a program with financial support. This means
that, unless I can get some money to continue to develop Aspell, I will
likely need to get a job over the summer in order to support my self. If
this happens I will likely have very little time to spend on Aspell. It
is very likely I will wind up losing interest in Aspell, yet again, and
thus Aspell 0.60 may never officially be released as there are a number of
things to do (see the end of this email).
I would *really* like to be able to continue to work on Aspell over the
summer so that I can get Aspell 0.60 out the door and perhaps make
significant progress on the following version. However, In order to do
this I need some serious financial support.
Considering the GNU Aspell is the *only* actively maintained general
purpose free (as in freedom) spell checker I think contributing a few
thousand dollars to the development of Aspell would be a wise investment
for an Open Source company.
If you wish to contribute a modest amount of money you can do so now by
using the SourceForge donation system:
http://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?group_id=245
If you wish to talk to me (as in over the phone) before contributing
money, or wish to only contribute money towards development of a certain
area of Aspell, this can be arranged.
Thanks in advance.
APPENDIX:
Some of the many things that need to be done before I consider Aspell 0.60
ready for release:
* The Aspell language toolkit needs enhancing to be able to create
Aspell 0.50 dictionaries and to allow multiple dictionary
packages for the same language.
* The suggestion code needs some work now that Aspell supports
affix compression. In particular I want to be able to support a
very simple soundslike algorithm which can be used with affix
compression. I also what to support using MySpell N-Gram method.
* Testing and bug fixes.
I would also really like to:
* Clean up copyright notices and bring the Aspell package up to GNU
Standards.
* Come up with a nroff mode for spell checking.
* Develop an enhanced C API to support the advanced features of
Aspell. This API should supporting doing anything that can be
done with the Aspell utility.
--
http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org
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