Re: Fwd: Working on GNOME Accessibility Projects in Software Design

[Bryen <suserocks bryen com>]

Stormy,

First, let's all thank you very much for your involvement in keeping
A11y in the forefront of GNOME.  You're truly an asset to the GNOME
community.

As for Samuel Rebelsky, that is exciting news.  My inclination is to
suggest that he join the mailing list.  It's not a high-traffic list
(although I'm hoping it will be.)  There's mailing lists for specific
a11y apps, but this is a good place for general discussion and getting
to know each other.  I think its the perfect forum for discussing his
plans for the cirriculum and he'll get broader input from many different
areas.

I think it would also behoove him to stop by during one of our meetings.
While we hold weekly meetings, we have a time-shifted meeting every
fourth Monday of the month at 20:00 UTC.  It's both more convenient for
his timezone and that particular meeting time seems to yield the most
general discussion, whereas the other weekly meetings at 02:00 UTC
(Tuesdays) are more task-oriented.  A good opportunity for him to
develop key relationships with people in a11y who can provide useful
feedback for his course design.

Thank you again, Stormy!

Bryen

On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 09:14 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote:
> Should I introduce him to the list? Would somebody like to be the main
> contact?
> 
> Stormy
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Samuel Rebelsky <REBELSKY grinnell edu>
> Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:03 AM
> Subject: Working on GNOME Accessibility Projects in Software Design
> To: stormy gnome org
> Cc: Samuel Rebelsky <REBELSKY grinnell edu>
> 
> 
> Stormy,
> 
> Thanks very much for coming out to pre-SIGCSE HFOSS symposium.  I know
> that the faculty there very much appreciated hearing from and talking
> to the industry folks, and I hope you saw some benefit in talking to
> and hearing from us.
> 
> As I mentioned during one of the breaks, I'd be very interested in
> exploring how we might make contributing to the GNOME Accessibility
> project the central focus of our software design course (at least for
> this next year).  The course isn't scheduled until Spring 2010, so
> there's a bit of time.  The time is probably both a benefit, since
> we'll have time to work things out, and a hindrance, since I don't yet
> have course goals specified and I'm guessing that the GNOME
> Accessibility project evolves rather quickly.
> 
> Anyway, if there are people you can recommend that I talk to, I'm
> happy to start a conversation on possible ways in which I and my
> students can contribute.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- SamR
> 
> Samuel A. Rebelsky, Associate Prof. CS
> Department of Computer Science
> Grinnell College, 1116 8th Avenue, Grinnell, Iowa 50112
> Office: 641-269-4410 ; Fax: 641-269-4285 ; Home: 641-236-7445
> rebelsky grinnell edu ; http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/~rebelsky/
> 
> 
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Bryen Yunashko
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