[nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years

Thu Jul 14 04:58:14 UTC 2011

Get SeroTek to donate the use of System Access To Go.  Let the likes 
of Freedom Science Fiction howl all they want: Their product cannot 
be used without installing it, and if they’re not prepared to donate 
its use while Serotek is…  Too bad for them, I figure.

Joseph

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 06:05:32PM -0700, Mike Freeman wrote:
>Ashley:
>
>What have you been smoking? Perhaps you should share. (grin) Install JAWS
>for the convention? Who's kidding whom here? And who would pay for it? And
>you'd get howls from WE, NVDA, System Access and HAL users who would insist
>upon their screen-reader of choice also being available.
>
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of bookwormahb at earthlink.net
>Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3:31 PM
>To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>
>Dear Lauren,
>Many places do not charge as you say. I wonder if there is a public option.
>In several hotels such as Hampton Inn, Comfort Inn, and Hilton there are
>public computers in a business center near the lobby. Business travelers go
>there to conduct business such as checking email.
>My dad says this is a nice service as he only has a portable blackberry and
>finds a real computer more efficient and easy to use; He tried a laptop
>owith a family member but he says the flat mouse is kind of weird to use.
>So I wonder if they have public computers and maybe they could install jaws
>on them for the convention?
>But yes seems to me the hotel should have wireless internet for those bring
>PDAs and laptops.
>Ashley
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Loren Wakefield
>Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3:05 PM
>To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>
>Sorry Mike, I must disagree with you to a certain extent.  Yes, one is there
>to attend meetings and learn etc.  But there is the after the meeting stuff.
>There is daily life to be lived.  There are socializing, personal, and
>business to be conducted.  Most de decent hotels do not charge for wifi.
>And if I have a choice, I am staying at the place that does not charge.  To
>me, if you are aguest at a hotel, and you do not have access to wifi in your
>room and public places, then that lessens my opinion of that particular
>hotel.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
>To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 10:14 PM
>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>
>
>> Of course, the question is *why?* After all, one presumably goes to
>> conventions to attend meetings, not dabble on the Internet. <<putting on
>> fire-resistant suit>>
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of T. Joseph Carter
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:35 PM
>> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>>
>> More frustrating was that there was no wifi at any price anywhere in
>> the area of the meeting rooms.  Were I to make one request of the
>> national office when we return, it would be to obtain internet access
>> for the meeting rooms and set up a few wifi routers at selected
>> locations for basic access.
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:01:59PM -0400, Marsha Drenth wrote:
>>>Just my two cents on this convention. The hotel was nice, very clean, nice
>>>rooms, and the staff was great. It was huge, people thought we walked a
>>>lot
>>>in Dallas, folks that is NOTHING! The food in the hotel was very very
>>>expensive, way way more than any of the restaurants in Dallas. It did help
>>>greatly to have the Publics across the street. If and when I go back, I
>> must
>>>remember to take good walking shoes. In regards to the WiFi, yes it
>>>totally
>>>sucked there was no free access any where in the hotel. And yet again I am
>>>too cheap to buy it. As far as the cell coverage, I have Verizon and had
>>>converage every where in the hotel and rooms. So I think that really
>> depends
>>>on your carrier.
>>>
>>>Marsha
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>>Behalf Of T. Joseph Carter
>>>Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:43 AM
>>>To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>>>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>>>
>>>Yes, Mr. Rosen was REALLY impressed with the NFB, and Dr. Maurer was
>>>really impressed with the facility.  Hopefully the two of them can
>>>work something out to reduce the nickel-and-dime effects somewhat.  I
>>>certainly have no objection to the hotel making money-but the
>>>incidental fees are both too high and too frequent to be comfortable.
>>>There isn't even lobby wifi access without a fee, and the hotel is
>>>full of cellular dead zones.
>>>
>>>Joseph
>>>
>>>
>>>On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 11:43:17PM -0400, Brian Miller wrote:
>>>>Did they say if it was to be at the same hotel all those years?
>>>>
>>>>Brian M
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>>>>Behalf Of Sherri
>>>>Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 8:00 PM
>>>>To: NFB Talk Mailing List; blindtlk at nfbnet.org
>>>>Subject: [nfb-talk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
>>>>
>>>>It was announced at the convention that conventions from 2013 through
>>>>2017
>>>>will be held in Orlando. I wish we could extend the length of the
>>>convention
>>>>back to how it was and NFB would organize tours for Wednesday afternoon.
>>>>That way, people could get excited about Orlando and have time to go
>>>places.
>>>>I liked the old schedule much better. If we are going to keep people here
>>>>for five years in a row, we need to give them ample opportunity to take
>>>>advantage of all there is to do in Orlando. Besides, I like the banquet
>> the
>>>>night before the last day of convention.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Sherri Brun
>>>>"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." John
>>>>Lennon
>>>>
>>>>Check out http://www.raceforindependence.org/goto/Sherri.Brun
>>>>
>>>>E-mail: flmom2006 at gmail.com
>>>> NFBF NewslineR chair
>>>>www.nfbnewsline.org
>>>>Vice-president NFB Greater Orlando Chapter http://nfbfgoc.org Secretary
>>>FDCP
>>>>INC www.fdcp.org Chair Orange County Disability Advisory Committee
>>>>
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