New member introduction

2010-02-12 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
The GNOME Foundation Membership Committee is proud to present the new members: - Bradley M. Kuhn - Holger Berndt - Jim Evins - Joanmarie Diggs - Juan Jose Marin Martinez Hi! I'm the second-to-last one. :-) My DayJob is as an assistive technology specialist with the Carroll Center

Re: Stormy's Update: Week of April 12, 2010

2010-04-19 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Stormy. On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 11:44 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: * Ran the Desktop track on Friday morning. Many, many thanks to Dave Neary and Zonker Brockmeier for helping put it together. We had some good sessions and great discussions about web applications

Re: Starting the process for this year's Boston Summit

2010-05-19 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi John. This year we have a choice of two dates, Columbus day weekend, October 9th-11th or piggyback the weekend after the Linux Plumbers conference, November 6th-8th. Put me down in the November column. I'm leaning towards keeping Columbus day weekend because it is easier to get

Status update? (was Re: Starting the process for this year's Boston Summit)

2010-06-03 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi John. A number of us from the a11y community will be attending the AEGIS Conference in Spain. We're now in the (very early) planning stages of an associated hackfest [1] and are trying to decide if it should extend through 9 October. At least for me, the answer depends on what the plans are

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

2010-06-25 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hey all. I agree with this: I also don't think the ending is appropriate: These guidelines do not constitute censorship since you have many other forums and opportunities to say whatever you wish. As a matter of fact, personally I am not jazzed by the entire ending: Please keep in

Re: GNOME Speaker Guidelines

2010-06-25 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hey Stormy. Perhaps we could replace the above text with something like this: If someone in your talk is offended, please try to avoid a conversation about whether or not they should be offended. Remember our community is very diverse and while we all share a common mission to provide a

Re: Next Foundation IRC list is on November 3rd!

2010-10-29 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 09:42 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: Hi GNOME folks, Thanks for participating in the GNOME Foundation meeting today. Oops. :-( We had a lot of topics to discuss and did not get to them even though we went over 30 minutes! So by common agreement, we are having our next

Opportunity to Contribute to GNOME Accessibility: Orca Performance Improvements

2010-11-01 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi all. As many of you are aware, GNOME recently received $15,000 for accessibility work. [1] I have just posted [2] the description of the first of the two projects: Orca Performance Improvements. In addition, I have created a new Opportunities page for GNOME A11y. [3] It's admittedly a bit on

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi All. Based on the Orca (or even a more general a11y) roadmap, it may be possible to get some funding from companies or associations interested in seeing Orca get better (although a lot of the associations seem to be focussing more on NVDA because it works on Windows). Where is the Orca

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
CCing the list as you replied to the copy of my message which never made it to the list because I sent it via the wrong address. :-/ Sorry about that. On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 21:01 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi Joanmarie, What I'm getting at is, if there were features which were particularly

Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

2010-12-08 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 22:58 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: Aha, well, yes. For starters: * Speech recognition would be useful for at least some people with print learning disabilities as well as for certain people with physical disabilities. * Caribou

Re: GNOME Foundation Membership - Accepted

2011-01-13 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Mario!! :-) Back in April-May 2010, I joined the Igalia WebKit team to work on improving the accessibility support in WebKitGTK+, so WebKit based apps were able to integrate better with the ORCA screen reader and, even though there's still a long way to go, I feel proud to see that it seems the

The Boston (or Boston) Summit?

2011-09-06 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hey all. The other day I heard an interesting rumor, which I've since been able to confirm [1]: There's a small chance that the Boston Summit might be the Montreal Summit. Montreal is all kinds of charming awesomeness, and if that is where the Summit is going to be this year, that's great. But

A11y Team NOT attending Montreal Summit

2011-09-15 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Board and Foundation. As I'm sure you are aware, presently there are 0 confirmed, and a much-smaller-than-usual list of tentative attendees for the upcoming Summit. [1] Furthermore, after much deliberation along with consultation with other teams with whom we would like to meet in Montreal,

Re: Membership's Renewals Jan 2012

2012-01-07 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:47 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: Hi, as per point 1.3 of [1], here it comes a list of members in need of a renew in case they didn't receive their individual e-mail: [15 people who are not me] Andrea, I pretty sure I'm coming up for needing a renewal soon. Where can I

Re: Boston Summit?

2012-04-27 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On 04/27/2012 12:25 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I was thinking, size permitting, we may even be able to do at Mozilla offices? What were you thinking about the date? Is Columbus Day weekend ideal, inconvenient, or irrelevant? --joanie ___

Re: Questions for the board election candidates

2012-05-22 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Robert. On 05/22/2012 03:58 AM, Robert Nordan wrote: 1) Open Source or Free Software? Open Source AND Free Software. :) With respect to my own pragmatic idealism: * I value freedom and tend to say Free Software. BUT I have no philosophical problems with those who say or prefer Open

Facilitating the Integration of Free Software into Academic Courses (was Re: Questions for the board election candidates)

2012-05-24 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
I hope no one minds the new subject. But I started out innocently enough answering Richard's question. But at the end had an essay plus a proposal. I hate when I do that, but what's done is done, so I wanted to separate it out from the Board Candidacy discussion. On 05/22/2012 10:56 PM, Richard

Call for GUADEC 2013 proposals - Deadline extended

2012-07-18 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hello Foundation Members. During the last week of June we announced the call for GUADEC 2013 proposals [1]. We have received feedback from the community that more time is needed. Therefore, in order to ensure we have a great GUADEC 2013, we are extending the deadline for completed proposals.

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

2012-10-15 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On 10/15/2012 06:53 AM, Andrea Veri wrote: [...] I explained the benefits in my original mail but here they are again: - services, that means having the ownership of your nick. No one will be able to spoof your identity. (plus host cloaking with handy (for example) /gnome/marketing/foo

Re: A few observations about GIMPNET

2012-10-15 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Who exactly owns GimpNet and if asking on #opers doesn't get us the answers we seek, how else can we get them? Very nice question Joanmarie, who takes decisions on behalf of the GIMPNET network? if GIMPNET is aliased the GNOME IRC network why they don't listen to contributor's ideas and

Re: Some news from GIMPNET (was A few observations about GIMPNET)

2013-01-31 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On 01/31/2013 09:42 AM, Alexandre Franke wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Andrea Veri a...@gnome.org wrote: Pretty much (all?) the bots were used for auto-opping or updating channel's topics AFAIK, thus my statement to safely remove all the bots with these specific functions. I'll work

Re: Boston Summit 2013?

2013-04-30 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On 04/30/2013 01:11 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Piñeiro apinhe...@igalia.com wrote: On 04/30/2013 06:22 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: Although working for the venue is appreciated, imho, is irrelevant. If that extra hop means that suddenly every one (or

Extending the call for candidates (was Re: Withdrawal of board of idrectors candidacy)

2013-05-22 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On 05/21/2013 10:46 PM, Karen Sandler wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 1:14 pm, Richard Stallman wrote: The number of candidates so far is pretty small -- I saw only 8 -- so we will not have much choice in our voting. On general principles, and not as criticism of the people who have already

Re: Questions for candidates

2013-05-26 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On 05/25/2013 05:21 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: Hello, I also thanks people running for the board. I would like to know: In order to be in the board, what are you going to do *less*? In other words, what would the trade-off be for you? Are you going to spend less time in other GNOME

Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of July 31st, 2013

2013-08-15 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
On 08/15/2013 07:40 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño wrote: On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 22:06 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: * The travel committee is currently verifying the travel requests * The event's local team should take over this role * The travel committee needs more resources * Three potential