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+<title>GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility</title>
+</head>
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+
+<h1>GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects</h1>
+<p>
+BOSTON, MassâFebruary 26, 2008 â 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.
+</p><p>
+The program is sponsored by GNOME Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Googleâ'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.
+</p><p>
+âI'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,â said Willie Walker, Senior
+Staff Engineer of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
+</p><p>
+<emph>GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility</emph> 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.
+</p><p>
+âNovell is committed to both GNOME and to providing the best
+possible accessibility options to users of our SUSE Linux
+Enterprise offerings,â said Justin Steinman, director of Linux marketing
+for Novell. âThrough working with the GNOME foundation and other
+partners, Novell is providing better computer access to all users as
+they work and interact in today's increasingly digital world.â 
+</p><p>
+Behdad Esfahbod, member of the GNOME Foundation board of directors and
+an administrator of the program explains: âAccessibility (or a11y as we
+write it) is one of the key features of GNOME, like internationalization
+and usability.  GNOME technology works hard to make applications built
+on top of it be accessible without any extra effort on the application
+developer's side.  There are shortcomings, however, and this program
+will help people identify and fix them.â
+</p><p>
+Individuals interested in participating in the program should check out
+<a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y";>www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y</a>. More information about the
+program may be found at the same location.
+</p>
+<h3>About the GNOME and the GNOME Foundation</h3>
+<p>
+GNOME is a free-software project whose goal is to develop a complete,
+accessible and easy to use desktop for Linux and Unix-based operating
+systems. GNOME also includes a complete development environment to
+create new applications. It is released twice a year on a regular
+schedule.
+</p><p>
+The GNOME desktop is used by millions of people around the world. GNOME
+is a standard part of all leading GNU/Linux and Unix distributions, and
+is popular with both large existing corporate deployments and millions
+of small business and home users worldwide.
+</p><p>
+Comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading
+companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to
+supporting the advancement of GNOME. The Foundation is a member
+directed, non-profit organization that provides financial,
+organizational and legal support to the GNOME project and helps
+determine its vision and roadmap.
+</p><p>
+More information about GNOME and the GNOME Foundation can be found at
+<a href="http://www.gnome.org";>www.gnome.org</a> and <a href="http://foundation.gnome.org";>foundation.gnome.org</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h3>About Mozilla Foundation</h3>
+<p>
+Established in July 2003, the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit
+organization whose mission is to promote choice and innovation on the
+Internet through the Mozilla project. Mozilla is a global community
+dedicated to building free, open source products and technologies that
+improve the online experience for people everywhere. We work in the
+open with a highly disciplined, transparent and cooperative
+development process. The Mozilla Corporation organizes the development
+and marketing of Mozilla products as a wholly owned subsidiary of the
+Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation is based in Mountain View,
+California. Learn more about the Mozilla Foundation at
+<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/foundation";>www.mozilla.org/foundation</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h3>About Canonical Ltd and Ubuntu</h3>
+<p>
+Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is a global 
+organisation headquartered in Europe committed to the development, 
+distribution and support of open source software products and 
+communities. World-class 24x7 commercial support for Ubuntu is
+available 
+through Canonical's global support team and partners. Since its launch 
+in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux 
+distributions with millions of users around the world. Ubuntu will 
+always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to 
+others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely
+used 
+Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software 
+ecosystem. For more information visit
+<a href="http://www.canonical.com/";>www.canonical.com/</a> or <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/";>www.ubuntu.com/</a>.
+</p>
+
+<h3>Press Inquiries</h3>
+<p>
+Check <emph>People &amp; Contact</emph> in the <a
+href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y";>program page</a>
+to contact the program administrators or judges.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Google is a trademark of Google,
+Inc.  All other names and trademarks are the property of their
+respective owners.
+</p>
+
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