Re: Exciting news: funding coming our way!

[Bryen <suseROCKS bryen com>]

I concur!  A Hall of Fame is absolutely a FANTASTIC idea.  Not just a
Hall of Fame for people who have directly and actively contributed to
a11y, but also a Hall of Fame for people who aren't involved in a11y but
still exhibit their best effort to make their own product fully
accessible.  They're heroes too, in my book.



On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 13:23 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Bryen wrote:
> > Question:  Will this funding be divided up equally amongst all mailing
> > list members?  :-)  (Okay, I can dream.)
> 
> :-)  It's going to be on the order of $6K grants meant for individuals 
> to accomplish needed work in a 6 month time frame.  With this, we should 
> hopefully see a dramatic impact on the fall release of GNOME and 
> continued commitment to accessibility in other areas such as Firefox.
> 
> > Thanks again to Willie and everyone else for all their hard work and
> > dedication that makes our experience on Linux so much better!
> 
> I'm merely person that's had a passion for this work for a long time. 
> The "everyone else" includes a lot of people, past and present.  I think 
> we should think about a "Hall of Fame" where we can include the names of 
> people who have contributed greatly to the work and what they did.
> 
> Will