Hi :) +1 I like the sound of ... "It is sometimes good to meet as a team with 3rd party software providers to see what kind of progress or what type of cooperative development could take place."
Could TDF buy dev time from RedHat or SUSE or Canonical or another supporter of TDF or at least someone that does understand OpenSource and is able to work alongside volunteers and inspire them and perhaps build-up a team. So, what i would like to see is a person working at a slightly higher level than a dev but focussing on developing a team to work on accessibility issues. Perhaps only part-time but with a job title such as "Community Development Officer" (for Accessibility) or "Development Co-ordinator" or "Development Lead" Waiting for a volunteer to happen to take interest has got nowhere is 2 years although a few people have put in a lot of hard-work and done some great things (most recently Stuart but there have been others). Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Marc Paré <[email protected]> >To: LibO Mailing List Accessibility <[email protected]>; >Florian Effenberger <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 15:48 >Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist > >This may be more a question to Florian as well as the accessibility team. > >As LibreOffice Accessibility is a barrier to the acceptance of LibreOffice in >many governmental/educational/institutional systems worldwide, would it >reasonable if there was a funding request for dev outsourcing for a particular >area of accessibility where code development is lagging? > >To the accessibility team, if there was funding available for such a thing, >what would your items be and in order of preference. I know in my local school >boards Dragon Speaking is a requirement, that is, unless there is an >equivalent replacement. > >What items would you suggest? > >=============== > >Another funding wishlist item could be that the TDF/LibreOffice help fund an >Accessibility conference where some of the leading members of the >accessibility team along with other interested partners could meet to try to >solve bottlenecks in development for LibreOffice. > >It is sometimes good to meet as a team with 3rd party software providers to >see what kind of progress or what type of cooperative development could take >place. > >=============== > >Would there be any other items that you could think of to put on your wishlist? > >Cheers, > >Marc > > >-- Marc Paré >[email protected] >http://www.parEntreprise.com >parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) >parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org > >-- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to >[email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
