We wanted GameFace to be something that we kickstarted and then donated to the community to run with. That's still the case.
Imoroney what can we do as a community? This project is still in need of a measure of Google support to be handed off to the community. The project needs fostering to develop community lead maintainers.
This project could be useful as a library, not just as a front end. Accessibility must scale to its users needs. For instance, integrating with speech recognition, eye tracking, and other peripherals allows people to have the most interaction with their environment.
I for one would love to work on hooking into gameface with C#, python for integration alongside grammar based speech recognition.
That was always my goal with this -- my team is not in the business of product development. Still, there was (and is) an opportunity to build the basis for an app that the community could either maintain or an entrepreneur could use.
Either way, if it spreads the tech far and wide to help more people like Lance, we all win.
https://github.com/google/project-gameface/pull/31#issuecomm...
More interesting is not having the "This is not an official Google project so not supported" disclaimer so many repos in their org has.
Shady origins, shoddy maintenance, but the incident will be forgotten as is usually the case. The reality is Google still has huge mindshare and respect among engineers and will likely be immune to damage in these situations.