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

My name is Christopher Leung and I am one of the organizers for this

On 07/11/2007, Christopher Leung
<christopher.leung at projectpossibility.org> wrote:
> My name is Christopher Leung and I am one of the organizers for this
> event.

Hi again :-)

> 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.

Fantastic.  That really is the OATS concept in action.

> The idea of working with remote teams is exciting.
[snip]
> 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.

I'll certainly fire up chatzilla pop in at some point. I guess you're
8 hours behind?

How about promoting it on the Mozilla, GNOME or Orca a11y mail lists
once you have the channel name?

> 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!

That's great news as the physical space needs a compelling solution
(there seems to be a perception that 508 == visual impairment). I was
chatting to David Boltor (GOK maintainer) yesterday and we discussed
the possibility of Google Summer of Code involvement in the space on
GOK/Jambu/OnBoard so SS12 is very interesting.

-- 
Steve Lee
--
Jambu - Alternative Access to Computers
www.fullmeasure.co.uk