Re: Award for GOPA

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson <jbsn tpg com au>]

Exciting stuff! Congratulations to everybody involved.

Bertil


On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Willie Walker wrote:

> Woo hoo!  Way to go gnome-accessibility folks!  This is really exciting
> news and makes all of our hard work worthwhile.
>
> What it is also showing is that we're becoming much more tightly
> integrated with the mainstream developer community.  This is key to our
> future.  That is, we have two choices:  1) the intractable status quo,
> which is the continual frustrating reactive work to figure out how to
> make new technologies accessible while also chasing constant
> regressions, or 2) ingraining accessible design in the minds of
> mainstream developers. 
>
> GOPA is helping us accomplish #2, and we're already seeing it with
> people such as the gnome-session and gdm folks reaching out for
> accessible design ideas for the gnome-session and gdm rewrites.  This is
> a very positive shift, and I'm loving it.  One day, we'll reach that
> tipping point where accessible design is just a natural part of
> everyone's thought process.
>
> Will
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 14:37 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Last week, during the Paris Capitale du Libre event, some awards were
> > given away to various projects/companies/people in the free software
> > world. Those are the Lutèce d'Or [1].
> >
> > We filled an application for the best action lead by the community, and
> > applied for GOPA (GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility). The goal was
> > to explain our efforts in promoting accessibility.
> >
> > And it turns out we won :-) [2] Christophe Fergeau went to the ceremony
> > to receive the prize and wrote a small report [3].
> >
> > We're trying to write press release around that. So if anybody wants to
> > help, that'd be great! I'd guess we might want a quote from someone
> > working on a11y...
> >
> > [1] http://en.paris-libre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=44
> > [2] http://www.paris-libre.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212
> > [3] http://cfergeau.blogspot.com/2008/09/yesterday-i-attended-crmonie-de-remise.html
> >
> > Vincent
>
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