SV: Re: COPY: [oats-sig] Ongoing OATS

Hi Simon and All,

I agree with all ideas and comments that have been expressed. I will add some from my point of view.

- The most important thing is that we can get OATS go on let it be known.  
- Since some groups of users are small (e.g. AAC users) it is important that we can get several countries involved. Then it is important that we can find a way of translating the information in suitable way. Most developers can handle English but the problem will be for the users and some professionals.
It is important that users, parents and (from SIT:s point of view) teachers easily can find software on the repository but I don't think it will be possible to translate all information about the software. One solution could be to add national comments/translations as a section of the software information (like Music games). If there is any information in other languages in English maybe flags can be entered after the Software name.
- Since the communication between users and developers is an essential issue in OATS it is important that we can find a way of using the forums in a suitable way.
- It would be nice if you could use the offers of using students to develop AT software tools of limited size useful for children and young people in education.

Best wishes,
Eive  

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Yes to Firefox extensions, web is becoming central and the extension
community has many of the ideals we have. Seems there are now some
1000 extensions. Could watch this thread just started by Aaron
Leventhal for ideas in the screen reader space
http://tinyurl.com/2jmoqr
We have the hawking toolbar on OATS for alternative input and Jambu
will cover some of the same ground but is not an extension (though
runs on the same XUL core).

On 3/14/07, Stephen Druce <druce at ace-centre.org.uk> wrote:
>
>  Hi Simon, All,
>
>  Here are some ideas from ACE:
>
> It is the joint community  - between users and program developers - that differentiates Oatsoft from other AT software web sites.  Developing this community to become more effective would be a good theme for a continuation project
> Developing the community would probably best be achieved through activity working on one, two or a few pilot OS projects.  Could this include Firefox extensions perhaps?
> It would be good if at least one pilot project should include a child oriented application.
> The new project might also include provision for promotional events and workshops etc involving both users and developers.
> Extensions to the Oatsoft functionality might include more for user involvement/feedback - Amazon comes to mind.
> Oatsoft Repository - funding to update with new applications as they become known to us.
> Oatsoft Forge - not our stengths but I am sure that the programmers will have lots of techie ideas to make this side of the site more appealing/convincing for them to use.
> New Oats server hosting and administration facilities
> Also it has been suggested to us that perhaps the community could include support for cooperative development of projects even if the final code is not open sourced. Best wishes,
>
>  Stephen
>
>
>
>
> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:22:30 +0000
>  To: oats-sig at lists.becta.org.uk
>  From: Stephen Druce <druce at ace-centre.org.uk>
>  Subject: Re: COPY: [oats-sig] Ongoing OATS
>
>
> Hi Simon,
>  Thanks for this.
>  David and Andrew are on annual leave for the rest of this week. I'll talk with them next week and get back to you.
>  Stephen
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>  Could people please send me (on or off) list, their suggestions as to what the future focus of OATS should be.  I am considering applying project grants and it would be good to have these ASAP - i.e. the next couple of weeks.
>
>  This particularly applies to people on the steering group.
>
>  My concept, not to bias people, is to try and get money to pump prime some of the projects and create some re-usable code (to allow integration into mainstream software if required) and polished projects.  This could be done by employing a coder and also using the kind of contracting method that assembla.com uses (putting tasks on the wiki and allowing people to bid for them / have paid trial work).
>
>  Cheers.
>
>  Simon
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