Hi, Joanmarie Diggs wrote: > Aha, well, yes. For starters: > > * Speech recognition would be useful for at least some people with print > learning disabilities as well as for certain people with physical > disabilities. > > * Caribou, especially were its functionality further expanded, would be > useful for people with physical disabilities. > > Could we begin there? And if so, who is "we" and how do we "begin"? :-)
OK - Caribou is the gok replacement, right? I guess "we" is us - the GNOME Foundation. I'm sure the board will help, I'll help, I'm certain the a11y team will help... we'll figure this out. I guess "begin" begins with "build a list of organisations we could contact for grants" - organisations should include non-profits, foundations, universities, and government agencies. We could use a wiki page for that, or Etherpad, or Google Docs, perhaps SugarCRM? Open to discussion. Then, for each one, we try to get a good entry point. Then, "we" contact them, with a general & informal first approach - "do you know GNOME? We're pretty cool. We do cool a11y stuff." and if they have heard of us, and are maybe using us a little, we can then pitch the roadmap for grants. For sure, it's a long shot approach, and we'll probably only ever get 10% response to initial queries, and less than 10% of those interested in funding "us" (and there, let me turn that question around to you - who's "us"? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list