Re: Braille printing for conferences

[Stormy Peters <stormy gnome org>]

We developed text (but not the layout and pictures) at the marketing hackfest.

Here's the text. (All are welcome to comment.) If anyone would like to help with design/layout, that'd be great. This is text to be used on a handout at conferences.

Text for handout:

GNOME's mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone regardless of physical ability, financial ability or language with free licensing and translation in more that 180 languages, with more than fifty fully translated.


GNOME Desktop Environment

[shot of happy user at a GNOME desktop]

The GNOME Desktop Environment is a graphical user interface and full featured set of applications to help you use your computer.  In addition to the user interface, the GNOME Desktop Environment provides applications including games, a web browser, an instant messaging client, multimedia applications and more.

GNOME is the default desktop environment of many Linux distributions and Unix platforms including Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSolaris.  GNOME is also available for installation on other Linux distributions, such as Mandriva, and openSuSE.  These operating systems include GNOME and other applications to offer a full-featured operating system that allows photo editing, spreadsheet management, playing music, surfing the web and more. In addition, you can collaborate and share with others across the internet and within your own network.  


Accessibility:

[photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools]

Tools to build GNOME, Windows and Mac Applications

The GNOME Development Platform provides software developers with tools, developer documentation and libraries to build applications for both the GNOME Desktop Environment and other platforms and operating systems including Microsoft Windows (r) and Mac OS (r) X.

GNOME provides developers with project hosting, distributed version control using git, a bug tracker, mailing lists, a wiki and more. In addition to applications included in a base GNOME installation, it hosts more than 600 other supported projects, such as photo editing, music players and games.

Learn more at http://library.gnome.org/devel/


GNOME Mobile

[Collabora developer holding an N900, smiling]

GNOME Mobile advances the use, development and commercialization of GNOME components as a mobile and embedded user experience platform. It brings together industry leaders, expert consultants, key developers and the community and industry organizations they represent.

The GNOME Mobile Platform is a subset of the GNOME Platform, and uses key technologies from GNOME as well as other free software projects, including Telepathy, GConf, Gstreamer and more.

Devices using GNOME Mobile technologies include a phone and internet tablets from Nokia: One Laptop Per Child and its operating system Sugar; GPS devices; and the Vernier LabQuest, a scientific tool for students to use for data collection and experiments.

Learn more at http://www.gnome.org/mobile/

GNOME Foundation

[picture of storm]

The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of creating a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation sponsors GNOME-related technical conferences, represents GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, helps create technical standards for the project and promotes the use and development of GNOME software.

The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun.

[company logos]


Become a Friend of GNOME

Don't have time to write code? Help the GNOME Foundation in other ways, such as through a monetary donation.

The GNOME Foundation's goal is to provide a free desktop for all users and you can help by becoming a Friend of GNOME. Your donation provides resources for developers, software and education for end users, and promotion for GNOME worldwide.  In addition, your funds support GNOME events such as hackfests, giving GNOME developers a chance to meet face to face to work on improvements in GNOME.

Become a Friend of GNOME today at http://www.gnome.org/friends

(GNOME Foundation sponsor logos)

2009/11/19 Ben Konrath <ben bagu org>

Hi Everyone!

We have a Braille printing expert on staff here at the University of
Toronto who has offered to help me with embossing the GNOME conference
handout. Is there something ready for production yet? I can ask her to
provide some input on how well it will transcribe to Braille and the
issues involved with making a Braille handout with pictures and text.

Cheers, Ben