[oats-sig] USC Open Source Accessibility code-a-thon

Its a shame about the California thing. Yet another reason to be in

Hi everyone,

My name is Christopher Leung and I am one of the organizers for this
event.  Simon was kind enough to introduce me several weeks ago to this
list and help solicit project ideas for this event, at least one of
which we would like to pursue during the weekend.

It's great to see interest on this list.  We hope to inspire these kinds
of events in the future, particularly at the university and young
professional level, to spread awareness to developers early on in their
careers.

The idea of working with remote teams is exciting.  We're still honing
in on our 'official' projects for the weekend; once we get a better
idea, we can look at what ways there is for contribution to those
projects.  Off the bat, I can say that there are some Jambu/SAW related
projects that could use the expertise of the people on this list!

It would also be nice to have a set of people who the student teams can
solicit for accessibility questions or direction during the weekend;
maybe we can create an IRC channel during the event for this.

Best,
Chris

stephen emslie wrote:
> Its a shame about the California thing. Yet another reason to be in
> California this time of year :)
> 
> I'd still be interesting in helping out remotely though. If they allow
> that and enough people are interested perhaps we should get together
> on this side and pitch in remotely?
> 
> Stephen Emslie
> 
> On 11/6/07, "~:'' ありがとうございました。" <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> the spec for the projects:
>> http://ss12.info/projects.php
>>
>> isn't that helpful though, there doesn't seem to be a history of
>> previous 'winners'
>>
>> I did submit a rather limited project, something I'd hope to complete
>> in a few days.
>> once'd fully researched and understood, possibly only a few hours....
>>
>> but a great idea none the less.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Jonathan Chetwynd
>> Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6 Nov 2007, at 13:42, Steve Lee wrote:
>>
>> On 06/11/2007, stephen emslie <stephenemslie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Steve
>>>
>>> Thanks for the heads up, that looks very exiting, but the site says
>>> that it will be hosted at USG, and isn't that in California?
>> Yeah, University of Southern California, LA (USG seems to be
>> something else) :-(
>>
>> There's no mention of remote participation that I can see, but it
>> might be worth dropping them a line in case there are possibilities.
>>
>> Otherwise you're limited to submitting projects ideas.
>> http://ss12.info/submitproject.php
>>
>> --
>> Steve Lee
>> --
>> Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers
>> www.fullmeasure.co.uk
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 