Re: Getting Tech info out to people

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Bryen:

There is a GOPA task underway that Vincent Alexander is working on:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/tasks/documentation/

The current drafts are here:

http://snoringbeagle.net/

And we have a bug open to set up something to automatically push the docs:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552532

When all this is in place, I want to update 
http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility to make sure it and its subpages 
point to the right spot.

In fact, I plan on dedicating my entire Monday this coming Monday to 
revisit live.gnome.org/Accessibility and live.gnome.org/GAP to see what 
can be done about reconciling everything under 
live.gnome.org/Accessibility and getting things in place.  If you'd like 
to help, we could attempt to do it via IRC.

Thanks!

Will

Bryen wrote:
> We are seeing increased interest by developers to ensure their software
> is a11y-compliant.  The problem is oftentimes, they come into our IRC
> channel with the question "HI, I'd like to do this with my app, how do I
> get started?"  But, understandably, the channel isn't highly active
> during non-meeting times.
>
> I do my best to try to ping people on the nicklist and link them up to
> this wonderfully ambitious folks, but it is always a hit-and-miss.
>
> As an example, Jason Smith of GNOME-DO fame came in about 1/2 hour after
> last night's meeting ready to jump in with his efforts to a11y-itize
> GNOME-DO.  He was planning to spend the night working on it, but sadly
> we couldn't connect the right people to him.
>
> I'd like to see if maybe one of you could write a good documentation to
> put on the wiki, so I can at least point them to relevant information.
> (We should put this in the /topic of the channel as well.)
>
> We need to get information to them quickly while the fire is still hot
> in their hearts.