Re: Do we have an item for moving AT-SPI to DBus in the outreach program?

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

David Bolter writes:
> If I can find funding, do we have people in the community to (help) do it?
> 
I believe the proposal was to have CodeThink do the work. It appears
Mozilla Foundation can fund part of the cost, but significant additional
funding is still needed to proceed. It seems it may be necessary to
cobble funding together from multiple sources, or find another
development approach.

Janina

> D
> Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi Li:
> >
> > Under the "AT-SPI on DBus" section on the GetInvolved page, there's a 
> > few links to Rob Taylor and Mark Duffman's wonderful work on the 
> > feasibility study.  They did an awesome job and have created a proposed 
> > breakdown of tasks:
> >
> > http://live.gnome.org/GAP/AtSpiDbusInvestigation/MigrationBreakdown
> >
> > Overall, I think everyone agrees this is the right thing to do, and 
> > we're now looking for ways to fund the effort.  So far, it looks like 
> > purse strings are kind of tight and/or pockets are empty.  :-(  We might 
> > need to start thinking about more creative ways to move forward.
> >
> > Do you have a proposal for how we can get unstuck?
> >
> > Will
> >
> > Li Yuan wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> There have been a lot of discussions about the "AT-SPI over DBus
> >> Feasibility Study". Seems to me that there is something need to
> >> implement in DBus and a lot of things need to be coordinated between
> >> accessibility infrastructure and DBus. It would be great that we can
> >> find someone who has DBus knowledge to work on this. Of course it would
> >> be greater that he can actually migrate AT-SPI to DBus :-)
> >>
> >> I saw "Migrate Away From CORBA" on
> >> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved
> >> <http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved#head-11a5ebf4f3e64822d07ccae6ccbbb54dec4ce948>
> >> , what's our plan?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Li
> >>
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