Participate in GOPA! (GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

I just want to send out a reminder to let you know "GNOME Outreach 
Program: Accessibility" stuff is still underway and that there are still 
tasks available: http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/.

We had some really good interest in the documentation task and Vincent 
Alexander, a very brave soul, is currently working on it (yeah!).  This 
is probably one of the most important tasks, so let's all try to get 
behind Vincent and help him succeed.

We've had some interest in the Evince and Magnification tasks, but no 
people have been designated as the official owners of these yet.  This 
is a reminder to submit your strong proposals!  These are important 
tasks, and I'm especially interested in seeing them succeed.  I'd also 
like to see more along the lines of the testing task as well as "your 
idea here".  Surely, there must be a really good idea someone has to add 
value to GNOME accessibility!  If you want some food for thought, take a 
look at http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved.  Imagine, for 
example, how cool it might be to create a kick butt DAISY reader.

We've also had some people working on the short-term tasks (yeah), with 
some bugs being closed.  There's still plenty of opportunity to 
participate, however, so take a look and jump in.  You'll get some cash 
along the way to improving the overall accessibility offering of GNOME. 
 If I can manage to swing a trip to GUADEC this year, I'll also buy you 
some beers.

Finally, we've set up regular Monday meetings on irc.gnome.org/#a11y at 
13:30 UTC for people to get together and chat.  They've been very good 
so far -- please come by this coming Monday if you are interested.

Will

PS - As a potential discussion -- if there were something we could do 
differently to make GOPA more attractive to you, what would it be?