On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 00:35, Juanjo Marin <juanjomari...@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 <b...@bagu.org> wrote: >> > Hi Dave, >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Dave Neary <dne...@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 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > foundation-list mailing list >> > foundation-list@gnome.org >> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-list mailing list >> foundation-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list