[Fwd: Re: This Monday's 13:30UTC IRC meeting: special guests from RedHat :-)]

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Just making sure this gets through to the list.  It was denied because I 
had too many people on the CC list.

Will

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• From: Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>
• To: GNOME Accessibility <gnome-accessibility-list gnome org>
• Cc: Jon McCann <jmccann redhat com>, Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>, Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>, mallum openedhand com, Chris Jones <skating tortoise gmail com>, prlw1 cam ac uk, "David J.C. MacKay" <mackay mrao cam ac uk>, David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>, Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>, Steve Lee <steve fullmeasure co uk>, Ross Burton <ross openedhand com>, Francesco Fumanti <francesco fumanti gmx net>, Gerd Kohlberger <lowfi chello at>, Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>, Ray Strode <rstrode redhat com>, David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>
• Subject: Re: This Monday's 13:30UTC IRC meeting: special guests from RedHat :-)
• Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:20:03 -0400

Hey All:

I have a loud crying sick son on my hands and will be occupied with trying to get him to the doctor's office this morning. As such, I will not be able to attend the IRC meeting today (it's hard for me even to be able to concentrate to type this message). :-(

However, I'd still like everyone to meet today and move forward on http://live.gnome.org/GDM/EaseOfAccess. Jon McCann and RedHat are being very proactive here, and I think we are coming close to reaching consensus for at least the login screen. Please discuss the "Login Screen Interaction Model Specification" section of that page and work together to come together to create a concrete and tractable solution. The community is the expert here, and I have confidence that you can come to a really good conclusion.

Thanks!

Will

On May 14, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Willie Walker wrote:

Hi All:

I spent some time down at RedHat today talking with Jon McCann, Matthias Clasen, Ray Strode, and David Zeuthen about their proposal for revamping

gdm.  Included in this is an overall approach to making it easier for
people to discover and use the accessibility features of GNOME, both
from the gdm login screen and your desktop session.

I think what they've come up with is a really big step in the right
direction, and I've asked them to come to our irc.gnome.org/#a11y
meeting this Monday at the usual 13:30UTC time (9:30AM EDT) to discuss
the proposal.  There are still some details to be worked out, so your
feedback is going to be important.

Jon and company will be working up some information to send out prior to

the meeting, but I just wanted to take the time to grease the skids a
little bit --- I think it's fantastic that mainstream developers are
taking a strong interest in accessibility and are doing so proactively.
  They are also approaching the problem in a way that makes me happy,
which is to include end users very early in the process.

So, expect more info on the proposal to come to this list soon and
please set aside some time to participate in the irc.gnome.org/#a11y
meeting Monday at 13:30UTC.

Cool stuff,

Will
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