2009/4/2 Ken VanDine <[email protected]>: > I really want to second the a11y in WebKit gtk suggestion Alberto had. > There is really huge potential for the use of webkit in desktop apps, > and without a11y, it can never succeed.
Unfortunately, I'm already busy writing down a formal proposal for another project, and my Webkit expertise is pretty much 0. It would be nice if we could find someone who could write down such project more formally. > --Ken > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/4/1 Dave Neary <[email protected]>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As far as I know, grants are typically given for projects that are >>> beneficial to the general public but not immediately profit-makers. You >>> can target an area where there's money - like accessibility, research in >>> the internet, open government/citizenship and perhaps education. I'm >>> short on ideas for many of these fields, but perhaps there are legs to >>> exploring them? >>> >>> Some ideas I have are: >>> >>> Accessibility: >>> >>> * Perfect a free software eye tracker program like OpenGazer (needs a >>> *lot* of work to be usable & stable) >>> * Gestual commands - this existed when I was a young lad, you drew "N" >>> with your mouse on the screen & this opened netscape. Would be very >>> useful in touch-screen environments. >>> * Open voices - doing quality synthetic voices is a lot of work, major >>> research project & lots of time in a sound studio with specialised >>> actors. Funding one (or several) in various languages would be useful. >> >> GtkWebkit a11y support would also be nice. >> >>> Education: >>> >>> Not sure what we could target as a project here... probably something >>> concrete like a development project in partnership with a deployment, >>> perhaps with an existing big GNOME user like Extremadura? >> >> Actually improving the state for big deployment system administration, >> lockdown settings, and other stuff. >> >> For this, we can get in touch with Juanje Ojeda. He's a foundation >> member and he's working on the Guadalinex project in the Andalusian >> local government (a Linux distro for education, the biggest Linux >> deployment at Spain). He probably has a wide grasp on what's missing >> and what can be improved in GNOME for the educational sector. I'm >> pretty sure he's on the list, but I've put him in CC just in case. >> >> -- >> Un saludo, >> Alberto Ruiz >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >> > -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
