Hello fellow GNOME a11y folks.
On March 22-27 2010, GNOME will have a booth
presence at the CSUN conference in San Diego.
CSUN is one of the largest and most important
gatherings on the topic of technology and persons
with disabilities. This is going to be a great
opportunity to bring the gospel of Free Software
to a space and industry that is largely
proprietary, and to a user base with special
needs that sometimes could only be addressed with
Open Source software. This is going to be über exciting!
Along with the booth and a presentation or two,
we will also be hosting a GNOME assistive
technology hackfest. The reasoning for this being
the fact that this is an assistive technologies
conference, so there really isn't a better place
to draw inspiration, both by seeing the "state of
the art" proprietary products first hand, and by
talking with users who have needs that we could answer.
Are you a maintainer of one of GNOME's assistive
technology modules? Are you developing an on
screen keyboard? An alternative means for text
input? A magnifier? Some trippy head-tracking
app? Voice control? Switch access? Something new
and exciting for cognitive disabilities? Are you
hacking on new features for Orca? Are you working
to provide users with disabilities unfettered access to GNOME?
If the answer to any of the above is 'yes', we
hope you will consider joining fellow GNOME a11y
folks at CSUN this year to help promote GNOME and
to hack with fellow AT developers.
We hope to have funding for this hackfest, but we
don't yet really know what that means. We know
that we will have to be creative about it to pull
it off, so hopefully once you made up your mind
to attend, you could help figure out how to
afford it, if your employer could pay, if you
have student discounts, etc. We will do our best
to make it affordable to people who should be
there, but no promises. Hope to have specifics about that in the future.
Please reply to this mail, or contact me if you
have interest in attending, or any other questions, suggestions or concerns.
Cheers,
Eitan.
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