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

On 07/11/2007, Christopher Leung

Whoops, that's 'David Bolter', apologies to David.

Steve

On 07/11/2007, Steve Lee <steve at fullmeasure.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>

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