Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-15 Thread Life in Hackney
Hi Siobhan Was interested to read your posting as this is a message I recently sent to the IS Forum - " ... a smallish housing charity has maintained a web site for a few years. From their web logs they know they have on average between 10-15% of visitors each month who are using Netscape 4.

[DDN] Position open at NMMLP

2005-04-15 Thread Rawlins, Belinda
Please post widely. Thanks! ** MEDIA LITERACY TRAINER The New Mexico Media Literacy Project (www.nmmlp.org ), an outreach project of Albuquerque Academy, seeks a high energy media literacy trainer to facilitate workshops and seminars, and to give

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-15 Thread Bill McIver
Siobhan, If I recall correctly, there is a lot of useful info and links on the W3.org site. Most of it is geared toward defining such standards, but they usually point the reader to practical guides. See also: North Carolina State University, The Center for Universal Design Trace Research & Develop

[DDN] Hardware: What Happened to Simputer? (via Slashdot)

2005-04-15 Thread Bill McIver
Re: Recent discussion on DDN about Simputer This is in slashdot.org today. *Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday April 14, @10:37PM* *from the humble-beginnings dept.* An anonymous reader writes /"LinuxDevices.com has published a brief update on the much-heralded Simputer <

[DDN] Everyday citizens being local online - request for examples

2005-04-15 Thread Steven Clift
Next week I will be giving a speech titled, "Everyday Citizens: Community Life in the Information Age." I've been gathering interesting local examples and plan to share them more widely as well. The full announcement for this Minneapolis speech is here: http://www.dowire.org/notes/index.php?p=15

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-15 Thread Taran Rampersad
Siobhan Green wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering what y'alls thoughts are on what the current browser > compliance standards should be for international audiences. I develop > websites for a variety of non-profits which want to ensure the sites > are accessible by the majority of users in develo

Re: [DDN] Technology Grant

2005-04-15 Thread Andy Carvin
Dorean Kass wrote: Hi, Thanks very much for the info. My post was vague because DDN wouldnt let me put anything specific about my company, our mission, etc Just to clarify: DDN's rules state that companies may not use the list for marketing or advertising purposes. The language that Dorean inc

[DDN] Boston Community WiFi Forum @ BPL on Tuesday 4/19 at 7pm]

2005-04-15 Thread Andy Carvin
Thought this event might be of interest to some of you in the Boston area... -ac Original Message Subject: [berkman-thursday] Community WiFi Forum @ BPL on Tuesday 4/19 at 7pm Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:10:22 -0400 From: Susan Kaup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DDN] Technology Grant

2005-04-15 Thread Dorean Kass
Hi, Thanks very much for the info. My post was vague because DDN wouldnt let me put anything specific about my company, our mission, etc SimDesk's mission is to provide utility computing to the masses, at a low cost, thereby providing digital inclusion. I included a quick blurb below. We are

Re: [DDN] Current browser standards for international audiences

2005-04-15 Thread Peter Abrahamsen
Perhaps this is too obvious, but for heaven's sake, people, set your character set correctly. Don't make my browser (or me) guess. Living for the time being in the third world (though there are certainly far poorer places), I think Netscape 4.75 probably is a little out of date. I haven't seen it

Re: [DDN] COMPUTER: HARDWARE: HARD DRIVES: What Is on Your Hard Drive

2005-04-15 Thread Katy Pearce
Any legit IT department would know to do a full format on these machines. At my company we use a free utility called DBAN. Thanks, Katy Katy Pearce FLEX-PAX Cluster Director [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting "David P. Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > A rather often heard commercial for credit cards

[DDN] Research Coordinator

2005-04-15 Thread A. K. Mahan
Please distribute widely. **Apologies for cross-posting** Coordinator Multi-site Research Project: One-year contract position; May 2005 - May 2006 Gender Research in Africa on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Empowerment (GRACE) The GRACE project is a partnership between