[oats-sig] FW: ICCHP Follow up

Dear All,

See below for this promising contact. Any comments welcome - I think Neil
might now be on this list.  I've cited the paper here:
http://www.citeulike.org/user/simonjudge/article/773262 . 

Sorry I can't be clearer at the moment, i'm not really here!  I'll get onto
more OATS stuff in the next few months.

Cheers

Simon

Clinical Scientist
ACT
0121 627 1627 ex 53245 

-----Original Message-----
From: nmckenzie [mailto:nmckenzie at dedicon.nl] 
Sent: 24 July 2006 14:22
To: simon.judge at southbirminghampct.nhs.uk
Subject: ICCHP Follow up

Hi,

It was good to meet you at ICCHP last week. I have just returned from my
busy period of Austrian conferences and will be taking a well deserved break
for most of August. Following this, we would be very interested in getting
involved in the Oatsoft.org initiative.

We have made opensource several small projects that we have at FNB. These
are in various stages of completion:

http://math2braille.sourceforge.net 
http://accessmusic.sourceforge.net 
http://openaip.sourceforge.net 

The problem I have is that the projects lie dormant once I am finished with
them, I would like to push them out to the world a little more through
initiatives such as Oatsoft.

Through the EUAIN project, we would like to promote more open source
solutions. Please see the attached paper I presented at last year's Open
Source Systems conference.

Our demonstrator is based around ODF, and we will make it open source in the
very near future:

http://demonstrator.euain.org 

I have attempted to include open source initiatives in most projects and
project proposals I have put together, and we continue to promote open
standards throughout our work. 

In our Training and Resource Centre under EUAIN, there is a section where we
would like to promote open source resources for Accessible information
processing:

http://wiki.euain.org/doku.php?id=wiki:software#open_source_tools 

This is largely incomplete, and hopefully I can manage to update it a little
more when I get some time. Almost all work we produce is released under
creative commons:

http://wiki.euain.org/doku.php#license 

So please feel free to reuse it in any of your non-commercial work.

I have signed up to your mailing list and will encourage anyone I know with
similar interests to do the same. Please let me know if there is anything I
can provide which can contribute to the success of Oastsoft.org. 

Regards,

Neil McKenzie

Neil McKenzie
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