On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 18:14 +0100, Fernando Herrera wrote: > As you all probably know, Oracle recently bought Sun. Sun has been one > of the largest contributors to the GNOME project during the last > years. > > Probably is too early to know how this is going to affect GNOME > project. However this last week we have seen some relevant events: > Oracle laid off two members of the Sun's Accessibility Program Office. > > If you have been following GNOME a11y development, probably you can > agree with me that: > > - SUN APO contributions have been critical for GNOME success > - SUN a11y developers have not only done a great and impressive work, > but also have been deeply involved with the community. > - Accessibility is a critical component for GNOME 3.0 > - The accesibility framework changes for GNOME 3.0 are huge (new > at-spi, dbus migration, etc...) and should be properly tested for a > successful relase. > - Although in the last years we have seen new companies joining the > a11y development effort (like for example igalia), the number of > people woking in a11y is critically low. > > So, I would like to ask the board to take this issue very seriously > and try to contact SUN/Oracle representatives in the advisory board > regarding this issue. Hello Fernando, Certainly, this is a very serious issue. I am aware Stormy have been contacting Sun/Oracle to get a clear picture about the future of them with GNOME, which includes this issue. > Some references: > > * An Open Letter to Oracle on the Topic Of Accessibility by Joanmarie Diggs: > http://blog.grain-of-salt.com/index.php?itemid=394 > > * Some threads at orca's mailing list: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2010-February/msg00055.html > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2010-February/msg00092.html > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2010-February/msg00078.html > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/orca-list/2010-February/msg00112.html I could not find any relation with the topic with respect to the last link. But I got the idea. -- Germán Póo-Caamaño Concepción - Chile http://www.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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