Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
Ok, you talked me into doing it. Check again: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gop-a11y.html Thank you. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
Great program! It will definitely bring better accessibility support for GNOME. I'd like to help people who participate the program and need support from accessibility infrastructure. Li 2008/2/27, Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED]: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects BOSTON, Mass—February 27, 2008 — The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program, offering USD$50,000 to be split among individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME community as well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME accessibility offering. The program is sponsored by GNOME Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Google™'s Open Source Program Office, Canonical, and Novell. This is the second in a series of outreach programs coordinated and run by the GNOME Foundation. I'm excited about the GNOME accessibility outreach program because it continues the promotion of compelling accessible design as part of the mainstream developer culture. We believe the set of tangible and achievable tasks outlined will help improve the already good accessibility offering of the GNOME desktop, said Willie Walker, Senior Staff Engineer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility starts accepting applications on March 1st and will run towards the end of the year. There will be two tracks to the program: In the first track accepted individuals will work towards accomplishing one of the major projects nominated for the program, earning US$6,000 and can take up to six months to complete the task. The second track will reward contributors US$1,000 for fixing five bugs out of a pool of accessibility bugs nominated by the program judges. Individuals interested in participating in the program should check out www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y. More information about the program may be found at the same location. Read the full announcement at: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gop-a11y.html ___ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
The only places in the announcement that open source appears is in the Google's office name, and in the About blurbs of sponsors (Mozilla Foundation and Canonical). None of which GNOME Foundation has any control on. That is true, but the GNOME Foundation has control over the whole rest of the announcement, so it can make sure that the announcement as a whole clearly supports the free software cause. Could you revise it so that free software gets equal weight (at least)? I'll keep that in mind for the future, but I don't think changing a PR that is out is a good idea. You could change it now by inserting text in square brackets. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
Note that this press release is not about free software, but about accessibility It's about accessibility for GNOME, thus accessibility for free software. The fact that GNOME is free software isn't the main point of this announcement, but it should be a side point. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
Richard Stallman wrote: Note that this press release is not about free software, but about accessibility It's about accessibility for GNOME, thus accessibility for free software. The fact that GNOME is free software isn't the main point of this announcement, but it should be a side point. Yes. It is so important that accessibility be 'free'. It is so frustrating when these solutions are not shared and improved. Imagine not been allowed to fix a bug to enable someone! G (RMS I know how easy that is for you to imagine :) ) D ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
Hi gang, To amplify on what David said... While many folks with disabilities are understandably most focused on getting a solution that works for them (whether proprietary or not, so long as they have it and can thus use technology, be on the 'net, etc.), I think an increasing number feel that FOSS accessibility is very important. See http://blogs.sun.com/korn/date/20080223 for my writeup of a pair of videos from India about FOSS accessibility (and specifically about Orca on Ubuntu), and the very clear statement from Krishnakant Mane on this topic. Peter Richard Stallman wrote: Note that this press release is not about free software, but about accessibility It's about accessibility for GNOME, thus accessibility for free software. The fact that GNOME is free software isn't the main point of this announcement, but it should be a side point. Yes. It is so important that accessibility be 'free'. It is so frustrating when these solutions are not shared and improved. Imagine not been allowed to fix a bug to enable someone! G (RMS I know how easy that is for you to imagine :) ) D ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
This activity sounds very useful, but there's a problem in the announcement: it doesn't mention free software, but does mention open source. Could you revise it so that free software gets equal weight (at least)? ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 11:08 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: This activity sounds very useful, but there's a problem in the announcement: it doesn't mention free software, but does mention open source. Hi Richard, The only places in the announcement that open source appears is in the Google's office name, and in the About blurbs of sponsors (Mozilla Foundation and Canonical). None of which GNOME Foundation has any control on. Could you revise it so that free software gets equal weight (at least)? I'll keep that in mind for the future, but I don't think changing a PR that is out is a good idea. Cheers, -- behdad http://behdad.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
Hi Richard, Le mercredi 27 février 2008, à 11:08 -0500, Richard Stallman a écrit : This activity sounds very useful, but there's a problem in the announcement: it doesn't mention free software, but does mention open source. Could you revise it so that free software gets equal weight (at least)? The places where Open Source is mentioned are out of our control: it's in the About organization blurbs. GNOME's blurb talks about free software and there are other places where freedom is mentioned. I'm sure we would have changed mentions of Open Source to Free Software if it was in the main text. Note that this press release is not about free software, but about accessibility (which explains why free software isn't mentioned in the main part of the press release). Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects BOSTON, Mass—February 27, 2008 — The GNOME Foundation is running an accessibility outreach program, offering USD$50,000 to be split among individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness among the GNOME community as well as harden and improve the overall quality of the GNOME accessibility offering. The program is sponsored by GNOME Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Google™'s Open Source Program Office, Canonical, and Novell. This is the second in a series of outreach programs coordinated and run by the GNOME Foundation. “I'm excited about the GNOME accessibility outreach program because it continues the promotion of compelling accessible design as part of the mainstream developer culture. We believe the set of tangible and achievable tasks outlined will help improve the already good accessibility offering of the GNOME desktop,” said Willie Walker, Senior Staff Engineer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility starts accepting applications on March 1st and will run towards the end of the year. There will be two tracks to the program: In the first track accepted individuals will work towards accomplishing one of the major projects nominated for the program, earning US$6,000 and can take up to six months to complete the task. The second track will reward contributors US$1,000 for fixing five bugs out of a pool of accessibility bugs nominated by the program judges. Individuals interested in participating in the program should check out www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y. More information about the program may be found at the same location. Read the full announcement at: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gop-a11y.html ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
