Great News
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From: Eitan Isaacson <
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Date: 2009/10/14
Subject: CSUN Hackfest and Exhibition: Call for Participation
To: GNOME A11y <
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Cc: Stormy Peters <
stormy@...>
Hello fellow GNOME a11y folks.
On March 22-27 2010, GNOME will have a booth presence at the CSUN
conference in San Diego. CSUN is one of the largest and most important
gatherings on the topic of technology and persons with disabilities.
This is going to be a great opportunity to bring the gospel of Free
Software to a space and industry that is largely proprietary, and to a
user base with special needs that sometimes could only be addressed
with Open Source software. This is going to be über exciting!
Along with the booth and a presentation or two, we will also be
hosting a GNOME assistive technology hackfest. The reasoning for this
being the fact that this is an assistive technologies conference, so
there really isn't a better place to draw inspiration, both by seeing
the "state of the art" proprietary products first hand, and by talking
with users who have needs that we could answer.
Are you a maintainer of one of GNOME's assistive technology modules?
Are you developing an on screen keyboard? An alternative means for
text input? A magnifier? Some trippy head-tracking app? Voice control?
Switch access? Something new and exciting for cognitive disabilities?
Are you hacking on new features for Orca? Are you working to provide
users with disabilities unfettered access to GNOME?
If the answer to any of the above is 'yes', we hope you will consider
joining fellow GNOME a11y folks at CSUN this year to help promote
GNOME and to hack with fellow AT developers.
We hope to have funding for this hackfest, but we don't yet really
know what that means. We know that we will have to be creative about
it to pull it off, so hopefully once you made up your mind to attend,
you could help figure out how to afford it, if your employer could
pay, if you have student discounts, etc. We will do our best to make
it affordable to people who should be there, but no promises. Hope to
have specifics about that in the future.
Please reply to this mail, or contact me if you have interest in
attending, or any other questions, suggestions or concerns.
Cheers,
Eitan.
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