[BlindMath] help with website name

[Łukasz Grabowski]

Hi all,

I will soon be starting a (paid) webservice for visually impaired STEM
students, whose initial aim will be providing interfaces to
open-source software which are specifically designed for visually
impaired people (in case you're interested what's the service about, I
describe it briefly below, but it's an early stage).

I spent way too much time thinking about a name :-). For now I chose
Blind Monad.  

All the guides I read about choosing the domain name suggest to check
with target demographics how they like it. So - do you like it? :-)
It's somewhat inspired by the name of this group. 

The word monad has many meanings but in the branch of maths called
category theory monad is something which in particular describes
interactions. Similarly in computer science monad is a concept which
can be used for description of user interfaces, etc. A friend told me
it's a bad name because noone will know what is a monad. I get the
point but perhaps on the other hand it invokes your curiosity? :-)



Here are some very early details about the service. I came up with
this idea after a recent private conversation with another group member
Zach - it was clear that the problem he had, producing a diagram of a
biochemical reaction, can be fairly easily solved by using open-source
software. But the problem is having access to linux, configuring orca
or other linux screen reader correctly, learning to interact with
compilers, etc. 

So the idea is that perhaps at first one could use a web-based
front-end, and then if one thinks that it's a good idea, invest time and
resources into configuring their own computer. The kind of things I
want to provide access to are e.g. latex and latexml, python, octave
(clone of matlab), DOT language for graphs, etc. plus "tailor-made"
interfaces if you want to solve some specific problem quickly. When I
say "tailor-made" I really mean that the user would describe the way how
they would prefer to interact with the website to solve a concrete
problem (e.g. producing a diagram of a biochemical reaction), and then
we work together to come up with an efficient interface.

In other words if you're a technically savvy person there's
probably not much in the above which you couldn't do yourself.
Also the service will not be meant to "hook you", but rather
introduce you to a technology in a most efficient fashion and
encourage to explore it on your own (perhaps on your own
computer). At a later stage I would perhaps also like to offer 1-1
"tutoring" in usage of latex, octave, etc. but will see where it goes.

Best,
Lukasz