I am planning to attend Ohio Linux Fest this year one way or another - I have family in Columbus to stay with, so it shouldn't be a big deal at all. I'm game to help however I can, manning a GNOME booth or an A11y booth or doing anything else thats needed. Just let me know :)
Emily On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Bryen M Yunashko <[email protected]>wrote: > This year, Ohio Linux Fest will be held in Columbus, Ohio September > 28-30. I initially thought about proposing my "A11y: Its about you!" > talk, but after reading the OLF website, knowing their interests in > promoting open A11y, and seeing how people commented about a11y at > Indiana Linux Fest last weekend, I thought... Why not go for something > bigger this time? Go for the bang! > > My proposal: > > 1. We set up a very large booth that isn't focused on any one > organization, but rather on open a11y in general. Booth staff would > include reps from GNOME, Mozilla, FSF, Oracle, etc. Hands on > demonstrations of what our software can do. > > 2. Propose more advanced talks, such as "How you can test to ensure > your software is accessible," or "how to deploy a11y software in your > environment." (I get asked this a lot!) My "It's about you!" talk > really is more an introduction/marketing talk. It's good, but doesn't > do enough to get more people to pay attention to a11y in their own > development. > > 3. Organize a hacksession, perhaps either one of our traditional "fix > what's broken in a11y" events, or "fix what's accessibly-broken in non > a11y-software." OLF has a community day on Friday which is more focused > on workshops and whatnot. An ideal day to set up hacksessions before > the main event on Saturday. > > I think given the combined resources of the various organizations and > that a number of a11y contributors live somewhat close to Ohio, we could > make a good go of this. And potentially make this a blueprint for > organizing similar events around the world. Getting more people aware, > interested, and involved, is a good thing, IMO. > > It would also create an opportunity to invite local agencies, school > districts, etc. that work with people of various abilities. A plus for > us to demonstrate our awesomeness to target audiences, and a plus for > the event host to increase attendance to their show. > > I'm not proposing we do this instead of traditional dotOrg booths. For > example, if GNOME community plans to have a booth, they should still do > so. But we would be creating a traveling "A11y Center" of which GNOME > would be a "consortium" member. > > Frankly, I think this would be a more likely success-story outcome than > at places like CSUN conference. > > Thoughts? > > Bryen M Yunashko > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
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