aloha! minutes from the 1 December 2009 Open Accessibility Workgroup teleconference are available as hypertext at:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Minutes20091201 and as plain text following my signature. as usual, please log any errors, omissions, clarifications and the like by replying-to this announcement on-list. note that the following RESOLUTIONS were reached at the 1 December 2009 teleconference: 1. RESOLVED: JS will circulate proposal soliciting new nominations while re-nominating JS and GJR for a 2 year extension of their individual offices with a notice that the election will be held at the 8 December 2009 Open Accessibility teleconference. 2. RESOLVED: Open Accessibility will meet on 8 December 2009 and 15 December 2009; there will be NO meeting on 22 December 2009 or 29 December 2009; the first meeting of 2010 will be held on 4 January 2010. thanks to all who participated and to all who have been putting so much work and effort into the D-Bus port, gregory. _________________________________________________________________ Open A11y Workgroup Conference Call (1 December 2009) PRELIMINARY ITEMS Participants * Janina Sajka (JS/chair) + Mike Gorse (MG) + Gregory J. Rosmaita (GJR/scribe) + Brad Taylor (BT) + Willie Walker (WW) o regrets: none logged _________________________________________________________________ For Reference * Agenda for the 17 November 2009 Open A11y Call http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Agenda20091201 * Minutes from the 10 November 2009 Open A11y Call http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Minutes20091110 * Minutes from the 3 November 2009 Open A11y Call http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Minutes20091103 _________________________________________________________________ Open Action Items * ACTION - Mike Gorse: update the AT-SPI on D-Bus wiki page (http://a11y.org/d-bus) with information about the development release of AT-SPI2 0.1.2 and development release of AT-SPI2 0.1.3 + status: in progress; MikeG will communicate directly with GJR if he encounters any difficulty with updating the AT-SPI on D-Bus wiki page * ACTION - GJR: work with Linux Foundation IT team to fix problems with new content management system + status: in progress; all links off of http://a11y.org/ should now lead to the correct destination, and the information should be current; systemic problems still being addressed with Linux Foundation staff _________________________________________________________________ Announcements & News AT-SPI2 0.1.3 Available for Download AT-SPI2 is a D-Bus based accessibility framework. It defines a D-Bus protocol for providing and accessing application accessibility information. The project includes a library for bridging the D-Bus protocol to the ATK API, allowing Gtk based applications to be made accessible. It also contains a client (AT) side library in Python. AT-SPI2, version 0.1.3 is available for download at: * http://download.gnome.org/sources/pyatspi/0.1/ * http://download.gnome.org/sources/at-spi2-core/0.1/ * http://download.gnome.org/sources/at-spi2-atk/0.1/ AT-SPI2 0.1.3 Release Notes This is a development release of AT-SPI2, it has some unfinished features. A list of work required before a full release can be found at: http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/BonoboDeprecation For more information about the release of AT-SPI2 0.1.3, please consult the [email protected] archive. _________________________________________________________________ MEETING MINUTES NOTE: These minutes have not yet been finalized. Topic 1: AT-SPI on D-Bus Port: Progress and Issues * AT-SPI on D-Bus Port wiki page last updated 30 October 2009 by Mike Gorse + MikeG is maintaining the AT-SPI on D-Bus Port wiki page, and will add info about AT-SPI2 development releases to the D-Bus wiki page Discussion of Topic 1: D-Bus Port Update WW: MarkD and I talked in IRC yesterday -- Mark made great breakthrough on re-entry problem, which should now be fixed -- this is GREAT news, but it has put us a bit behind schedule; should review other work items that need to be done -- MarkD is working on outstanding items, but since we are a bit behind schedule due to the re-entry work I was wondering if there is any way that Novell could do some additional work? MG: what remains to be done? WW: bridge implementation of leased objects for vewry large containers -- large container problem -- MarkD working on accessibility daemon for GNOME -- no need for help there; WW: leased objects - large container problem; another: collections API MG: started working on Collections API MG: for leased objects, still testing code WW: Collections API and infinite space problem are 2 most outstanding issues on which MarkD could use help to accelarate our work -- about 4 weeks behind BT: deadlines? WW: 2.29.5 will be a big milestone release -- release date is 11 January 2010 BT: will coordinate with Mike and Mark WW: good milestone release; need to keep plugging away Topic 2: Open A11y Executive Elections: Membership, Good Standing, Eligibility and Timeline Resources: * Open Accessibility Executive Officers (http://a11y.org/officers) * Open Accessibility Membership Roll (http://a11y.org/a11y-wg) Discussion of Open A11y Executive Elections JS: GJR and I are willing to stand for another 2 year term if the group will have us JS: if no objections, i propose to put out an announcement to the accessibility list, and the accessibility-ia2 list, lists soliciting nominations (if any) on list, and for the workgroup to vote at the 8 December 2009 meeting RESOLVED: JS will circulate proposal soliciting new nominations while re-nominating JS and GJR for a 2 year extension of their individual offices with a notice that the election will be held at the 8 December 2009 Open Accessibility teleconference. ACTION: JS circulate election message/timeline to lists (accessibility and accessible-ia2) _________________________________________________________________ New Business Identify Topics & Dates for Teleconference for the Remainder of 2009 JS: end of the year meetings -- availability? RESOLVED: Open Accessibility will meet on 8 December 2009 and 15 December 2009; there will be NO meeting on 22 December 2009 or 29 December 2009; the first meeting of 2010 will be held on 4 January 2010. Wrap Up Summary of New Action Items * ACTION: JS - circulate election message/timeline to lists (accessibility and accessible-ia2) Summary of Continued Action Items * ACTION - Mike Gorse: update the AT-SPI on D-Bus wiki page (http://a11y.org/d-bus) with information about the development release of AT-SPI2 0.1.2 and development release of AT-SPI2 0.1.3 + status: in progress; MikeG will communicate directly with GJR if he encounters any difficulty with updating the AT-SPI on D-Bus wiki page * ACTION - GJR: work with Linux Foundation IT team to fix problems with new content management system + status: in progress; all links off of http://a11y.org/ should now lead to the correct destination, and the information should be current; systemic problems still being addressed with Linux Foundation staff Summary of Resolutions 1. RESOLVED: JS will circulate proposal soliciting new nominations while re-nominating JS and GJR for a 2 year extension of their individual offices with a notice that the election will be held at the 8 December 2009 Open Accessibility teleconference. 2. RESOLVED: Open Accessibility will meet on 8 December 2009 and 15 December 2009; there will be NO meeting on 22 December 2009 or 29 December 2009; the first meeting of 2010 will be held on 4 January 2010. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Agenda20091208 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Agenda20091215 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Agenda20100104 * meeting adjourned 1625h UTC * next Open A11y conference call: 2009-12-08 _________________________________________________________________ Retrieved from "http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Accessibility/Minutes/Minutes2009120 1"
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