Re: draft for Friends of GNOME campaign

[Emily Gonyer <emilyyrose gmail com>]

Thats a great idea. It could really help spread awareness of other options to people who are used to only having one or two. I'm not really sure what sorts of ease-of-use options are out there for GNOME, but certainly if we made up a press-release and emailed it to the various disabled-support groups, maybe start with AAPD (http://www.aapd.com/) or similar and go from there. Or even ask them what their members are talking about needing help with - how GNOME could make their lives easier.

Emily

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com> wrote: 

I think that the Gnome Foundation should consider to seek sponsorship
from organizations that support disabled people. After a bit of
googling I can conclude that
not many (if any) advertise sponsorship grants to other organizations,
but I think its worth a try anyway. I guess the best (or most
practical) way to approach these organizations is with a prerelease
thing. Social media could possibly play a roll to spread the word
about the campaign to these organizations and its members.

Here are list of at least some of these organizations (mostly us based groups)
http://www.access-board.gov/links/disability.htm

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com> wrote:
>
>
> Karen:
>
>
>> GNOME has held accessibility amongst its core values from the project's
>> inception. Because of this commitment, along with the efforts of many
>> dedicated developers, GNOME 2 became one of the most accessible free
>> desktop environments
>
>
> Perhaps more importantly, GNOME was the first free desktop to seriously
> tackle meeting U.S. Disability Act Section 508 requirements.  The GNOME
> a11y community won several awards for doing this.  I think Peter Korn
> summed up some of the early achievements well in this blog post:
>
> http://blogs.oracle.com/korn/entry/gnome_accessibility_turns_4_today
>
> Also, we should perhaps touch base with HFOSS to see if they might want
> to participate again or perhaps sponsor in some way:
>
> http://blog.hfoss.org/?p=90
>
>
>> With the advent of GNOME 3, we have started down an exciting new road in
>> terms of usability, a road we want to extend to everyone, including users
>> of all ages and abilities. The GNOME Accessibility team is working hard to
>> accomplish this; however, we have fewer resources than in the past and
>> many goals yet to achieve in order to make GNOME 3 compellingly
>> accessible.
>
>
> GNOME has done some exciting things in the past to develop accessibility
> like the "GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility" project.
>
>  http://projects.gnome.org/outreach/a11y/
>
> Perhaps we could highlight better some of the significant things that
> The GNOME Foundation has managed to accomplish already in the field of
> accessibility.
>
>
>> With your help we can start tackling those goals. Let's kickstart 2012 as
>> the Year of Accessibility at GNOME and make the most usable desktop
>> environment the most accessible desktop environment!
>
>
> I think the campaign could more clearly highlight that The GNOME
> Foundation's mission is to make free desktop software available to
> everyone.  Accessibility features increasingly include features that
> are necessary to use some devices.  Touch screen gestures, on-screen
> keyboards, and magnifiers are increasingly standard features,
> especially in mobile devices.  So, features that make devices more
> accessible are increasingly needed to make some types of device work
> for any user.  Now is a real opportunity for the GNOME community to
> show the world how a free software community can provide competitive
> features that are differentiated by the GNOME Foundation mission.
> This campaign, I think, should be described as yet another step we
> are taking to meet such goals.
>
> Brian
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