Re: Meeting Minutes Published - November 11, 2010

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu tomeuvizoso net>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 00:35, Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 yahoo es> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:02 +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:28, Ben Konrath <ben bagu org> wrote:
>> > Hi Dave,
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
>> >> Based on the Orca (or even a more general a11y) roadmap, it may be
>> >> possible to get some funding from companies or associations interested
>> >> in seeing Orca get better (although a lot of the associations seem to be
>> >> focussing more on NVDA because it works on Windows).
>> >
>> > Just thought I'd chime in here. I spent a bit of time searching for
>> > funding to work on Caribou after the ATRC  / IDRC cut funding for my
>> > position. The feedback I received was a similar story; the potential
>> > funders seemed only interested in an applications that would serve
>> > their users who primarily use Windows. Obviously this will be an issue
>> > when searching for funding for GNOME a11y projects - especially new
>> > projects that don't have an established group of users like Caribou.
>>
>> What about those companies deploying linux desktops in masse in public
>> organizations? From time to time appear in the news some big European
>> city or government department that has migrated their desktops to
>> Linux. Those vendors aren't asked to provide an accessible solution?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>
>
> What about international disabilities associations like:
>
> - International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment
> [1]
> - ONCE International
>
> I think we can use OLPC/Sugar/GNOME deployments in schools like a good
> argument for asking for this.
>
> Usually, national associations are very Windows-centric, but they can
> help to children in poor areas improving the GNOME a11y technologies and
> its translation to Sugar.
>
> I think Sugar people would agree with this (Maybe Tomeu or someone from
> Sugarlabs can help with this idea if we think is feasible)

SugarLabs hasn't been successful at all with raising so far, but I
think they would be happy to assist (I'm not that active there these
days).

Regards,

Tomeu

> cheers,
>
>  -- Juanjo Marin
>
>
> [1] http://www.icevi.org/
> [2] http://www.once.es/new/Onceinternacional/0_pruebaonceint/index_html
> [3] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Accessibility
>
>
>> > Cheers, Ben
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