On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 12:08 -0500, Heidi Ellis wrote: > Hi Folks, > What about OSCON? Its big and RedHat/Fedora had a booth last year. Don't > know about cost. > Heidi >
Thanks Heidi for that suggestion! All are indeed possible to add to the list. The accessibility-oriented conferences are definitely easy to target. General FOSS conferences take a bit of consideration to determine what it is we want to do there. Some conferences are enterprise-targeted, some are developer-targeted, etc. FOSDEM certainly provided an opportunity to target the developer community. By no means am I ruling out OSCON. At this last event, from what I gathered from the GNOME Marketing team, it wasn't useful to have a booth at that conference because it didn't have desktop focus. Now, maybe that assumption is incorrect. And for our unique goal of spreading the accessibility message, it may indeed be more appropriate for us to attend. We should take a look at the conference more closely and look to what we may accomplish there. Costs, resources and goals are obvious considerations to make for any conference we wish to go to. Heidi, as you have more experience with OSCON, (I was only there for that one night for the education BoF) you might think about a good accessibility presentation that fits the audience there. The bigger the picture we have for 2011 opportunities, the better we can figure out what our plans and allocation of resources will come to. So, definitely, I'm putting OSCon on the list of possibilities! :-) I've set up a page now to gather more information. After about a month, we'll refine this list post-discussion to actual planning. http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/2011_Events Please, everyone, feel free to add to this list henceforth. Bryen > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryen M > Yunashko > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 5:21 PM > To: GNOME-A11y > Subject: 2011 Conferences > > With 2011 fast approaching us, I'd like to try to compile a list of > conferences that GNOME A11y should have presence at. Some conferences > that come to mind for me are: > > CSUN > ATIA > AADB > AEGIS > FOSDEM > SCALE > > Can anyone else offer up their suggestions for places we should keep on > the radar? > > Thanks! > bryen > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
