[oats-sig] Accessibility coding sprint

Thank you for the comments, Steve. Yes, we are on the list and

I left a question unanswered: The programmers at this event are 
primarily graduate and undergraduate university level computer science 
students.  A team of software engineering professionals will be 
volunteering their time to mentor the student teams during the event. 
Prizes will be offered to teams for high level of performance in various 
categories.  This event intended to increase awareness of issues in 
accessible computing, and be educational, fun, and empowering for all 
participants.

We are also in the process of inviting potential corporate sponsors to 
have a presence at the event and perhaps sit on the panel of judges and 
give some tech demonstrations.  We are open to suggestions in this area 
if anybody has recommendations (feel free to email me directly).

We are aware of the challenging problems in this space, and remain 
optimistic that we can make meaningful contributions--if not through 
this coding event, through future collaborations.

Thank you for the suggestions thus far!
Chris

Christopher Leung wrote:
> Thank you for the comments, Steve.  Yes, we are on the list and 
> monitoring this thread closely!
> 
> We would love to be a part of the Boston event but it is highly unlikely 
> we'll be able to break away from our duties here in Los Angeles, as we 
> are preparing for a large event the following week (not to mention 
> funding issues).  Hopefully we can join you guys next time around.
> 
> We are tracking the suggestions and plan a follow up.  Keep them coming!
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris Leung
> 
> 
> 
> Steve Lee wrote:
>> Impressive goals and the projects look interesting. Local community is
>> a good point. We should discuss the forge side with them.;
>>
>> I wonder who are the programmers at the hackathon?
>>
>> Anything that helps with alt access. How about autohot keys for linux?
>>
>> Something towards speech recog would be good but that's big. Perhaps a
>> tie-in with Komodo Open lab?
>>
>> Do we know if  they are on this list? Just wondering how they will
>> here (I've dropped them a line to see if they will be in Boston next
>> week).
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On 28/09/2007, Simon Judge <simon.judge at nhs.net> wrote:
>>> 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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