[oats-sig] Accessibility coding sprint

I left a question unanswered: The programmers at this event are

Thanks Christoper, raising awareness will be a great outcome along
with any running code. I look forward to hearing how it goes.

One thing, it's not really clear on your web site who you all are
(individuals and orgs).

Steve

On 29/09/2007, Christopher Leung
<christopher.leung at projectpossibility.org> wrote:
> 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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