[oats-sig] Fwd: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects

http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gop-a11y.html
http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/

Steve

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Date: 27 Feb 2008 07:35
Subject: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
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GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects
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 BOSTON, Mass—February 27, 2008 — The GNOME Foundation is running an
 accessibility outreach program, offering USD$50,000 to be split among
 individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness
 among the GNOME community as well as harden and improve the overall
 quality of the GNOME accessibility offering.

 The program is sponsored by GNOME Foundation, Mozilla Foundation,
 Google™'s Open Source Program Office, Canonical, and Novell. This is the
 second in a series of outreach programs coordinated and run by the GNOME
 Foundation.

 "I'm excited about the GNOME accessibility outreach program because it
 continues the promotion of compelling accessible design as part of the
 mainstream developer culture. We believe the set of tangible and
 achievable tasks outlined will help improve the already good
 accessibility offering of the GNOME desktop," said Willie Walker, Senior
 Staff Engineer of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

 GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility starts accepting applications on
 March 1st and will run towards the end of the year. There will be two
 tracks to the program: In the first track accepted individuals will work
 towards accomplishing one of the major projects nominated for the
 program, earning US$6,000 and can take up to six months to complete the
 task. The second track will reward contributors US$1,000 for fixing five
 bugs out of a pool of accessibility bugs nominated by the program
 judges.

 Individuals interested in participating in the program should check out
 www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y. More information about the program
 may be found at the same location.

 Read the full announcement at:
 http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gop-a11y.html

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