Re: 2010/05/20 #a11y meeting summary

[Peter Korn <peter korn oracle com>]

Piñeiro, all,

Sorry I missed the meeting - I had a conflict...  Regarding the AEGIS 
conference - I should know soon what space(s) are available which days 
of (and before/after) the conference for a GNOME Hackfest. 

As with CSUN, I'm hoping for several days distinct from the formal 
conference sessions / exhibit hall hours, so hackers can attend both.  
And taking a cue from Joanie, I'm also hoping we can have significant 
hacking time - particularly in those areas where we have AEGIS 
contributions (and thus engineers present), and where we have funded 
Spanish hackers working (e.g. http://live.gnome.org/Guadalinfo_accesible).

Regards,

Peter Korn
Accessibility Principal
Oracle

> Brief summary of the meeting, feel free to create any individual
> thread about the topics. Sorry if I miss something, but as I said,
> this is a *brief* summary:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> XFCE
>
>   * ryan22 suggested that the accessibility frameworks should be less
>     DE independent.
>   * He pointed that there are some issues of orca with xfce
>   * As this seemed too big for the #a11y meeting the conclusion was
>     that this would be managed first in the orca mailing list.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> OUTREACH MEETING
>
>   * Attended by SJ, slee, stormy, and Bryen
>   * Identified a number of areas we need to grow in.  Evangelism,
>     formalizing the structure for student internship programs, and
>     funding to pay for the above.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> AEGIS Conference:
>
>   * Bryen pointed out Peter Korn idea about a GNOME Hackfest on the
>     AEGIS Conference, similar to the CSUN one.
>   * Some people started to point out interesting points to talk there:
>      * prlw1: non-python dbus related things, XINPUT2
>      * Steve Lee: Caribou
>      * etc
>   * In the end Joan Marie Diggs pointed GNOME 3.0, so in summary:
>
>     "Not saying what we did in the past wasn't important; merely that
>     AEGIS is happening 2 weeks after the 3.0 release, which seems like
>     a good time to sit down and solve actual, concrete problems while
>     we're all in the same room"
>
>   * And the conclusion was given by Bryen:
>
>     "let's start planning on discussing the hackfest over the next
>     month (June) so we can identify what our needs are and what
>     resources we have available to make it happen"
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> HFOSS
>
>   * The primary mentor for HFOSS is out due personal reasons.
>   * There isn't too much time to coordinate it.
>   * This means that we now have neither a mentor, nor a proposal that
>     will work well. Proposals are required.
>   * During a brief brainstorming:
>      * Bryen said that final proposal was Mousetrap.
>      * Steve Lee asked about Caribou. dpellicer said 
>      * prlw1 suggested a game mode for dasher
>      * ryan22 suggested: enchant or aspell could be to support the "dyslexic spell checker"
>      * Steve Lee pointed main links:
>           May 20 17:46:54 <slee>	http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved/SmallTasks
>           May 20 17:47:05 <slee>	http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved
>           May 20 17:47:43 <slee>	and if you have lots of time
>           May 20 17:47:45 <slee>	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=accessibility;query_format=advanced;keywords_type=allwords;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;bug_status=NEEDINFO
>      * Joanie suggested to look from the non-a11y side of things
>         * Bryen pointed that this is a goal for the NSF project
>      * prlw1: scanning interface
>
>
> BR
>
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