[oats-sig] Accessibility coding sprint

Here's a starter from myself:

- A word predictor that will work independently and/or in conjunction with
SAW.

Also, note I misspelt the URL:  www.projectpossibility.org

Nice weekend all.

Cheers.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Judge
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 12:45 PM
To: 'OATs Project Special Interest Group'
Subject: [oats-sig] Accessibility coding sprint

See the message below from Chris at www.projectpossiblity.org (an
organisation with similar goals, stateside).  Anyone got ideas how we can
input to this?  

Cheers.

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Leung
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 11:58 AM
To: Simon Judge
Subject: Re: Project:Possibility - A Software Collaboration for the Disabled

Simon,

Thank you for the response and for the list of interesting projects.

An exciting update on our end--we will be hosting an accessibility-themed
Code-A-Thon event at the University of Southern California on November
17th-18th.  This 24 hour event will be an opportunity for 30-60
undergraduate and graduate level computer science majors/software developers
to develop empowering software for the disabled community, gain awareness,
learn something new, and win prizes in the process.

If you have any other interesting project ideas in mind these developers
could hack away at over the weekend, we'd love to hear it.  One possibility
is that we could further specify some of the projects you had in mind, and
possibly make significant progress on them over one weekend!

If OATSoft would somehow like to have a presence at this event, we're happy
to open discussion about how that might happen.  Being thousands of miles
away doesn't help--but it would be interesting to come up with ways on how
we might be able to collaborate.  We are also looking for sponsorships, if
OATS is in any position to do that.

Best regards,

Chris Leung

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