Great program! It will definitely bring better accessibility support for GNOME. I'd like to help people who participate the program and need support from accessibility infrastructure.
Li 2008/2/27, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects > ==================================================================== > > BOSTON, Mass—February 27, 2008 — The GNOME Foundation is running an > accessibility outreach program, offering USD$50,000 to be split among > individuals. This program will promote software accessibility awareness > among the GNOME community as well as harden and improve the overall > quality of the GNOME accessibility offering. > > The program is sponsored by GNOME Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, > Google™'s Open Source Program Office, Canonical, and Novell. This is the > second in a series of outreach programs coordinated and run by the GNOME > Foundation. > > "I'm excited about the GNOME accessibility outreach program because it > continues the promotion of compelling accessible design as part of the > mainstream developer culture. We believe the set of tangible and > achievable tasks outlined will help improve the already good > accessibility offering of the GNOME desktop," said Willie Walker, Senior > Staff Engineer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. > > GNOME Outreach Program: Accessibility starts accepting applications on > March 1st and will run towards the end of the year. There will be two > tracks to the program: In the first track accepted individuals will work > towards accomplishing one of the major projects nominated for the > program, earning US$6,000 and can take up to six months to complete the > task. The second track will reward contributors US$1,000 for fixing five > bugs out of a pool of accessibility bugs nominated by the program > judges. > > Individuals interested in participating in the program should check out > www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y. More information about the program > may be found at the same location. > > Read the full announcement at: > http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gop-a11y.html > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-accessibility-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list >
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