I think that the Gnome Foundation should consider to seek sponsorship from organizations that support disabled people. After a bit of googling I can conclude that not many (if any) advertise sponsorship grants to other organizations, but I think its worth a try anyway. I guess the best (or most practical) way to approach these organizations is with a prerelease thing. Social media could possibly play a roll to spread the word about the campaign to these organizations and its members.
Here are list of at least some of these organizations (mostly us based groups) http://www.access-board.gov/links/disability.htm On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Brian Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Karen: > > >> GNOME has held accessibility amongst its core values from the project's >> inception. Because of this commitment, along with the efforts of many >> dedicated developers, GNOME 2 became one of the most accessible free >> desktop environments > > > Perhaps more importantly, GNOME was the first free desktop to seriously > tackle meeting U.S. Disability Act Section 508 requirements. The GNOME > a11y community won several awards for doing this. I think Peter Korn > summed up some of the early achievements well in this blog post: > > http://blogs.oracle.com/korn/entry/gnome_accessibility_turns_4_today > > Also, we should perhaps touch base with HFOSS to see if they might want > to participate again or perhaps sponsor in some way: > > http://blog.hfoss.org/?p=90 > > >> With the advent of GNOME 3, we have started down an exciting new road in >> terms of usability, a road we want to extend to everyone, including users >> of all ages and abilities. The GNOME Accessibility team is working hard to >> accomplish this; however, we have fewer resources than in the past and >> many goals yet to achieve in order to make GNOME 3 compellingly >> accessible. > > > GNOME has done some exciting things in the past to develop accessibility > like the "GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility" project. > > http://projects.gnome.org/outreach/a11y/ > > Perhaps we could highlight better some of the significant things that > The GNOME Foundation has managed to accomplish already in the field of > accessibility. > > >> With your help we can start tackling those goals. Let's kickstart 2012 as >> the Year of Accessibility at GNOME and make the most usable desktop >> environment the most accessible desktop environment! > > > I think the campaign could more clearly highlight that The GNOME > Foundation's mission is to make free desktop software available to > everyone. Accessibility features increasingly include features that > are necessary to use some devices. Touch screen gestures, on-screen > keyboards, and magnifiers are increasingly standard features, > especially in mobile devices. So, features that make devices more > accessible are increasingly needed to make some types of device work > for any user. Now is a real opportunity for the GNOME community to > show the world how a free software community can provide competitive > features that are differentiated by the GNOME Foundation mission. > This campaign, I think, should be described as yet another step we > are taking to meet such goals. > > Brian > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- -Mvh Oliver Propst -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
