Re: Braille printing for conferences - connection with Guadec?
Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: > I don't think there is anyone currently targeting governments but I > think we need to do this. Anybody willing to help Sanne? I believe that Novell, Red Hat and Mandriva all target public sector markets in Europe. Perhaps Extremadura and Andalucia would be good contacts for Sanne also, as government sector users of GNOME. Chers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Braille printing for conferences - connection with Guadec?
I don't think there is anyone currently targeting governments but I think we need to do this. Anybody willing to help Sanne? Stormy On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Sanne te Meerman wrote: > Hi, > > Repeated request: is there some information I'm unaware of about Gnome and > targeting the government market? Or anyone who is experienced in this > subject? > > > thank you, > Sanne te Meerman > Guadec organisation > > Sanne te Meerman schreef: > > I've just subscibed to this mailinglist, so to avoid being off-topic, I've >> made a subthread. >> >> I was immediately triggered by this subject and conversation. I am trying >> to involve Dutch national governemnt with Guadec (I'm part of the dutch team >> of organisers). Focus on accessibility and usability can draw attention for >> several reasons, in my opinion: >> -attention on policy issues instead of technique is important. >> Accessibility and usability are issues that ring with policymakers (more >> than technique) >> -Government is more inclined to have attention to these subjects than i.e. >> companies because of political attention and pressure to these issues. >> -the bottom-up development of open source might be the best way to connect >> with the personal itches of disabled people. The industry involved therefore >> might have an advantage to more traditional ICT companies in this niche >> market. >> >> It might be good to have some sessions about usability and accesebility >> during Guadec. I will propose that. Any other suggestions? Maybe there is >> some documentation about Gnome and targeting the government market, that >> someone can point me to. That would be helpful. >> >> thank you, >> Sanne te Meerman >> >> Brian Cameron schreef: >> >>> >>> Willie/Dave: >>> >>> It might also be nice to highlight the humanitarian aspects of >>> accessibility a bit more. For example, I think it would be nice to >>> highlight something about the GNOME accessibility community. Perhaps >>> something about the fact that a number of people with disabilities >>> participate in development and in user forums. I think the promise of >>> joining a community of people working to address accessibility usability >>> issues is attractive to highlight. >>> >>> If that wouldn't make it too long, and you agree. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> >>> Thanks Dave! Something about the "specialised hardware to interact with applications" portion seems odd to me. In GNOME, we have a core value that people with disabilities have free compelling access to the graphical desktop and web. GNOME accomplishes this with full keyboard access, theming, and an industry leading accessibility infrastructure that is used by built-in assistive technologies including a screen reader, magnifier, and on screen keyboard. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", GNOME not only has free compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. or... (I just took my first stab at this and added "by people with disabilities" to the first sentence): In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, > > Shorter would be better, I think. > > How about this (pure edit, no additions): > > In GNOME, making sure that people with disabilities can use our > software > is a core value. From infrastructure allowing our built-in screen > reader > or specialised hardware to interact with applications to utilities to > make it easier for people with motor problems to interact with a > computer, accessibility in GNOME is built-in, not bolted on. As a > result > GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, it also provides a > rich foundation for the future. > > How does that read? Covers all the bases, I think - a11y is a core > value, what does accessibility mean, and how do we make things easier > for people with disabilities. Maybe needs a quick fact check on the > second sentence (it is at-spi that lets Orca do its thang, isn't it?) > > Cheers, > Dave. > > > Willie Walker wrote: > >> Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-) >> >> In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value >> that >> touches all aspects of the system. Wi
Re: Braille printing for conferences - connection with Guadec?
Hi, Repeated request: is there some information I'm unaware of about Gnome and targeting the government market? Or anyone who is experienced in this subject? thank you, Sanne te Meerman Guadec organisation Sanne te Meerman schreef: I've just subscibed to this mailinglist, so to avoid being off-topic, I've made a subthread. I was immediately triggered by this subject and conversation. I am trying to involve Dutch national governemnt with Guadec (I'm part of the dutch team of organisers). Focus on accessibility and usability can draw attention for several reasons, in my opinion: -attention on policy issues instead of technique is important. Accessibility and usability are issues that ring with policymakers (more than technique) -Government is more inclined to have attention to these subjects than i.e. companies because of political attention and pressure to these issues. -the bottom-up development of open source might be the best way to connect with the personal itches of disabled people. The industry involved therefore might have an advantage to more traditional ICT companies in this niche market. It might be good to have some sessions about usability and accesebility during Guadec. I will propose that. Any other suggestions? Maybe there is some documentation about Gnome and targeting the government market, that someone can point me to. That would be helpful. thank you, Sanne te Meerman Brian Cameron schreef: Willie/Dave: It might also be nice to highlight the humanitarian aspects of accessibility a bit more. For example, I think it would be nice to highlight something about the GNOME accessibility community. Perhaps something about the fact that a number of people with disabilities participate in development and in user forums. I think the promise of joining a community of people working to address accessibility usability issues is attractive to highlight. If that wouldn't make it too long, and you agree. Brian Thanks Dave! Something about the "specialised hardware to interact with applications" portion seems odd to me. In GNOME, we have a core value that people with disabilities have free compelling access to the graphical desktop and web. GNOME accomplishes this with full keyboard access, theming, and an industry leading accessibility infrastructure that is used by built-in assistive technologies including a screen reader, magnifier, and on screen keyboard. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", GNOME not only has free compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. or... (I just took my first stab at this and added "by people with disabilities" to the first sentence): In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Shorter would be better, I think. How about this (pure edit, no additions): In GNOME, making sure that people with disabilities can use our software is a core value. From infrastructure allowing our built-in screen reader or specialised hardware to interact with applications to utilities to make it easier for people with motor problems to interact with a computer, accessibility in GNOME is built-in, not bolted on. As a result GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, it also provides a rich foundation for the future. How does that read? Covers all the bases, I think - a11y is a core value, what does accessibility mean, and how do we make things easier for people with disabilities. Maybe needs a quick fact check on the second sentence (it is at-spi that lets Orca do its thang, isn't it?) Cheers, Dave. Willie Walker wrote: Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-) In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the accessibility infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days of GNOME. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Today, users have built-in keyboard navigation, highly customizable fonts/colors/icons, keyboard enhancements such as StickyKeys, the MouseTweaks tool that p
Re: Braille printing for conferences - connection with Guadec?
I've just subscibed to this mailinglist, so to avoid being off-topic, I've made a subthread. I was immediately triggered by this subject and conversation. I am trying to involve Dutch national governemnt with Guadec (I'm part of the dutch team of organisers). Focus on accessibility and usability can draw attention for several reasons, in my opinion: -attention on policy issues instead of technique is important. Accessibility and usability are issues that ring with policymakers (more than technique) -Government is more inclined to have attention to these subjects than i.e. companies because of political attention and pressure to these issues. -the bottom-up development of open source might be the best way to connect with the personal itches of disabled people. The industry involved therefore might have an advantage to more traditional ICT companies in this niche market. It might be good to have some sessions about usability and accesebility during Guadec. I will propose that. Any other suggestions? Maybe there is some documentation about Gnome and targeting the government market, that someone can point me to. That would be helpful. thank you, Sanne te Meerman Brian Cameron schreef: Willie/Dave: It might also be nice to highlight the humanitarian aspects of accessibility a bit more. For example, I think it would be nice to highlight something about the GNOME accessibility community. Perhaps something about the fact that a number of people with disabilities participate in development and in user forums. I think the promise of joining a community of people working to address accessibility usability issues is attractive to highlight. If that wouldn't make it too long, and you agree. Brian Thanks Dave! Something about the "specialised hardware to interact with applications" portion seems odd to me. In GNOME, we have a core value that people with disabilities have free compelling access to the graphical desktop and web. GNOME accomplishes this with full keyboard access, theming, and an industry leading accessibility infrastructure that is used by built-in assistive technologies including a screen reader, magnifier, and on screen keyboard. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", GNOME not only has free compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. or... (I just took my first stab at this and added "by people with disabilities" to the first sentence): In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Shorter would be better, I think. How about this (pure edit, no additions): In GNOME, making sure that people with disabilities can use our software is a core value. From infrastructure allowing our built-in screen reader or specialised hardware to interact with applications to utilities to make it easier for people with motor problems to interact with a computer, accessibility in GNOME is built-in, not bolted on. As a result GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, it also provides a rich foundation for the future. How does that read? Covers all the bases, I think - a11y is a core value, what does accessibility mean, and how do we make things easier for people with disabilities. Maybe needs a quick fact check on the second sentence (it is at-spi that lets Orca do its thang, isn't it?) Cheers, Dave. Willie Walker wrote: Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-) In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the accessibility infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days of GNOME. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Today, users have built-in keyboard navigation, highly customizable fonts/colors/icons, keyboard enhancements such as StickyKeys, the MouseTweaks tool that provides mouse clicking features by dwelling, the GOK on screen keyboard that can be driven via dwell clicking and switches, the Dasher predictive text entry tool, and the Orca screen reader and magnifier. Developers also have the glade-3 t
Re: Braille printing for conferences
In GNOME, we have a core value that people with disabilities have free compelling access to the graphical desktop and web. GNOME accomplishes this with full keyboard access, theming, and an industry leading accessibility infrastructure that is used by built-in assistive technologies including a screen reader, magnifier, and on screen keyboard. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", and with all development being done using direct continuous collaboration with people with disabilities, GNOME not only has free compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Or... In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", and with all development being done using direct continuous collaboration with people with disabilities, the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will Brian Cameron wrote: Willie/Dave: It might also be nice to highlight the humanitarian aspects of accessibility a bit more. For example, I think it would be nice to highlight something about the GNOME accessibility community. Perhaps something about the fact that a number of people with disabilities participate in development and in user forums. I think the promise of joining a community of people working to address accessibility usability issues is attractive to highlight. If that wouldn't make it too long, and you agree. Brian Thanks Dave! Something about the "specialised hardware to interact with applications" portion seems odd to me. In GNOME, we have a core value that people with disabilities have free compelling access to the graphical desktop and web. GNOME accomplishes this with full keyboard access, theming, and an industry leading accessibility infrastructure that is used by built-in assistive technologies including a screen reader, magnifier, and on screen keyboard. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", GNOME not only has free compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. or... (I just took my first stab at this and added "by people with disabilities" to the first sentence): In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Shorter would be better, I think. How about this (pure edit, no additions): In GNOME, making sure that people with disabilities can use our software is a core value. From infrastructure allowing our built-in screen reader or specialised hardware to interact with applications to utilities to make it easier for people with motor problems to interact with a computer, accessibility in GNOME is built-in, not bolted on. As a result GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, it also provides a rich foundation for the future. How does that read? Covers all the bases, I think - a11y is a core value, what does accessibility mean, and how do we make things easier for people with disabilities. Maybe needs a quick fact check on the second sentence (it is at-spi that lets Orca do its thang, isn't it?) Cheers, Dave. Willie Walker wrote: Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-) In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the accessibility infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days of GNOME. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Today, users have built-in keyboard navigation, highly customizable fonts/colors/icons, keyboard enhancements such as StickyKeys, the MouseTweaks tool that provides mouse clicking features by dwelling, the GOK on screen keyboard that can be driven via dwell clicking and switche
Re: Braille printing for conferences
Willie/Dave: It might also be nice to highlight the humanitarian aspects of accessibility a bit more. For example, I think it would be nice to highlight something about the GNOME accessibility community. Perhaps something about the fact that a number of people with disabilities participate in development and in user forums. I think the promise of joining a community of people working to address accessibility usability issues is attractive to highlight. If that wouldn't make it too long, and you agree. Brian Thanks Dave! Something about the "specialised hardware to interact with applications" portion seems odd to me. In GNOME, we have a core value that people with disabilities have free compelling access to the graphical desktop and web. GNOME accomplishes this with full keyboard access, theming, and an industry leading accessibility infrastructure that is used by built-in assistive technologies including a screen reader, magnifier, and on screen keyboard. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", GNOME not only has free compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. or... (I just took my first stab at this and added "by people with disabilities" to the first sentence): In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Shorter would be better, I think. How about this (pure edit, no additions): In GNOME, making sure that people with disabilities can use our software is a core value. From infrastructure allowing our built-in screen reader or specialised hardware to interact with applications to utilities to make it easier for people with motor problems to interact with a computer, accessibility in GNOME is built-in, not bolted on. As a result GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, it also provides a rich foundation for the future. How does that read? Covers all the bases, I think - a11y is a core value, what does accessibility mean, and how do we make things easier for people with disabilities. Maybe needs a quick fact check on the second sentence (it is at-spi that lets Orca do its thang, isn't it?) Cheers, Dave. Willie Walker wrote: Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-) In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the accessibility infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days of GNOME. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Today, users have built-in keyboard navigation, highly customizable fonts/colors/icons, keyboard enhancements such as StickyKeys, the MouseTweaks tool that provides mouse clicking features by dwelling, the GOK on screen keyboard that can be driven via dwell clicking and switches, the Dasher predictive text entry tool, and the Orca screen reader and magnifier. Developers also have the glade-3 tool that helps encourage accessible user interface design and the accerciser tool that helps developers analyze how their application is exposed to the built-in accessibility infrastructure. For tomorrow, the GNOME project is busily working on enhancing the on screen keyboard and magnifier, developing ways to use web cameras to move the mouse based upon head/body position, and making the solution much more friendly to resource constrained devices such as netbooks and the OLPC. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: Looks good. Can we add a sentence or two about what accessibility is or give some examples of the technology? Stormy On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Willie Walker wrote: Here's a quick snippet I might propose: In GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provid
Re: Braille printing for conferences
Thanks Dave! Something about the "specialised hardware to interact with applications" portion seems odd to me. In GNOME, we have a core value that people with disabilities have free compelling access to the graphical desktop and web. GNOME accomplishes this with full keyboard access, theming, and an industry leading accessibility infrastructure that is used by built-in assistive technologies including a screen reader, magnifier, and on screen keyboard. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", GNOME not only has free compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. or... (I just took my first stab at this and added "by people with disabilities" to the first sentence): In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Shorter would be better, I think. How about this (pure edit, no additions): In GNOME, making sure that people with disabilities can use our software is a core value. From infrastructure allowing our built-in screen reader or specialised hardware to interact with applications to utilities to make it easier for people with motor problems to interact with a computer, accessibility in GNOME is built-in, not bolted on. As a result GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, it also provides a rich foundation for the future. How does that read? Covers all the bases, I think - a11y is a core value, what does accessibility mean, and how do we make things easier for people with disabilities. Maybe needs a quick fact check on the second sentence (it is at-spi that lets Orca do its thang, isn't it?) Cheers, Dave. Willie Walker wrote: Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-) In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the accessibility infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days of GNOME. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Today, users have built-in keyboard navigation, highly customizable fonts/colors/icons, keyboard enhancements such as StickyKeys, the MouseTweaks tool that provides mouse clicking features by dwelling, the GOK on screen keyboard that can be driven via dwell clicking and switches, the Dasher predictive text entry tool, and the Orca screen reader and magnifier. Developers also have the glade-3 tool that helps encourage accessible user interface design and the accerciser tool that helps developers analyze how their application is exposed to the built-in accessibility infrastructure. For tomorrow, the GNOME project is busily working on enhancing the on screen keyboard and magnifier, developing ways to use web cameras to move the mouse based upon head/body position, and making the solution much more friendly to resource constrained devices such as netbooks and the OLPC. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: Looks good. Can we add a sentence or two about what accessibility is or give some examples of the technology? Stormy On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Willie Walker wrote: Here's a quick snippet I might propose: In GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: Paul Cutler and Denise Walters were working on that part so hopefully one of them will chime in. It'd probably be good to ask the a11y team for a short summary to put there though. Stormy On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: Accessibility: [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] Is
Re: Braille printing for conferences
Hi, Shorter would be better, I think. How about this (pure edit, no additions): In GNOME, making sure that people with disabilities can use our software is a core value. From infrastructure allowing our built-in screen reader or specialised hardware to interact with applications to utilities to make it easier for people with motor problems to interact with a computer, accessibility in GNOME is built-in, not bolted on. As a result GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, it also provides a rich foundation for the future. How does that read? Covers all the bases, I think - a11y is a core value, what does accessibility mean, and how do we make things easier for people with disabilities. Maybe needs a quick fact check on the second sentence (it is at-spi that lets Orca do its thang, isn't it?) Cheers, Dave. Willie Walker wrote: > Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-) > > In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that > touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus > "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the > industry in accessible design. From the accessibility infrastructure, to > the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive > technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the > very early days of GNOME. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling > accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for > future accessibility work. > > Today, users have built-in keyboard navigation, highly customizable > fonts/colors/icons, keyboard enhancements such as StickyKeys, the > MouseTweaks tool that provides mouse clicking features by dwelling, the > GOK on screen keyboard that can be driven via dwell clicking and > switches, the Dasher predictive text entry tool, and the Orca screen > reader and magnifier. Developers also have the glade-3 tool that helps > encourage accessible user interface design and the accerciser tool that > helps developers analyze how their application is exposed to the > built-in accessibility infrastructure. For tomorrow, the GNOME project > is busily working on enhancing the on screen keyboard and magnifier, > developing ways to use web cameras to move the mouse based upon > head/body position, and making the solution much more friendly to > resource constrained devices such as netbooks and the OLPC. > > Will > > On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > >> Looks good. >> >> Can we add a sentence or two about what accessibility is or give some >> examples of the technology? >> >> Stormy >> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Willie Walker >> wrote: >>> Here's a quick snippet I might propose: >>> >>> In GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all aspects of >>> the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME >>> Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible >>> design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the >>> applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a >>> central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME >>> not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a >>> rich and stable base for future accessibility work. >>> >>> Will >>> >>> >>> On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: >>> Paul Cutler and Denise Walters were working on that part so hopefully one of them will chime in. It'd probably be good to ask the a11y team for a short summary to put there though. Stormy On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters > wrote: > > > Accessibility: > > > > [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] > > Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you guys > not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it > lost > in a cut 'n paste? :-) I'm really just wondering what's up just so I > know if this is something the a11y team needs to write up if we go > ahead with the Braille handouts. > > Cheers, Ben marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >>> > -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Braille printing for conferences
Here's a bunch of run-ons... :-) In GNOME, accessibility by people with disabilities is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the accessibility infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days of GNOME. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Today, users have built-in keyboard navigation, highly customizable fonts/colors/icons, keyboard enhancements such as StickyKeys, the MouseTweaks tool that provides mouse clicking features by dwelling, the GOK on screen keyboard that can be driven via dwell clicking and switches, the Dasher predictive text entry tool, and the Orca screen reader and magnifier. Developers also have the glade-3 tool that helps encourage accessible user interface design and the accerciser tool that helps developers analyze how their application is exposed to the built-in accessibility infrastructure. For tomorrow, the GNOME project is busily working on enhancing the on screen keyboard and magnifier, developing ways to use web cameras to move the mouse based upon head/body position, and making the solution much more friendly to resource constrained devices such as netbooks and the OLPC. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: Looks good. Can we add a sentence or two about what accessibility is or give some examples of the technology? Stormy On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Willie Walker wrote: Here's a quick snippet I might propose: In GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: Paul Cutler and Denise Walters were working on that part so hopefully one of them will chime in. It'd probably be good to ask the a11y team for a short summary to put there though. Stormy On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > Accessibility: > > [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you guys not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it lost in a cut 'n paste? :-) I'm really just wondering what's up just so I know if this is something the a11y team needs to write up if we go ahead with the Braille handouts. Cheers, Ben marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Looks good. Can we add a sentence or two about what accessibility is or give some examples of the technology? Stormy On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Willie Walker wrote: > Here's a quick snippet I might propose: > > In GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all aspects of the > system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME > Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. > From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to > the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration > from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling > accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future > accessibility work. > > Will > > > On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > Paul Cutler and Denise Walters were working on that part so hopefully one >> of them will chime in. >> >> It'd probably be good to ask the a11y team for a short summary to put >> there though. >> >> Stormy >> >> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: >>> >>> > Accessibility: >>> > >>> > [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] >>> >>> Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you guys >>> not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it lost >>> in a cut 'n paste? :-) I'm really just wondering what's up just so I >>> know if this is something the a11y team needs to write up if we go >>> ahead with the Braille handouts. >>> >>> Cheers, Ben >>> >> -- >> marketing-list mailing list >> marketing-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Here's a quick snippet I might propose: In GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all aspects of the system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration from the very early days. As a result, GNOME not only has compelling accessibility today, but it also provides a rich and stable base for future accessibility work. Will On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: Paul Cutler and Denise Walters were working on that part so hopefully one of them will chime in. It'd probably be good to ask the a11y team for a short summary to put there though. Stormy On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > Accessibility: > > [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you guys not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it lost in a cut 'n paste? :-) I'm really just wondering what's up just so I know if this is something the a11y team needs to write up if we go ahead with the Braille handouts. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Paul Cutler and Denise Walters were working on that part so hopefully one of them will chime in. It'd probably be good to ask the a11y team for a short summary to put there though. Stormy On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: > Hi Stormy, > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > > Accessibility: > > > > [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] > > Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you guys > not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it lost > in a cut 'n paste? :-) I'm really just wondering what's up just so I > know if this is something the a11y team needs to write up if we go > ahead with the Braille handouts. > > Cheers, Ben > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Hi Stormy, On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > Accessibility: > > [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] Is there a reason why there is no text for this section? Did you guys not have time to write something up during the meeting or was it lost in a cut 'n paste? :-) I'm really just wondering what's up just so I know if this is something the a11y team needs to write up if we go ahead with the Braille handouts. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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We developed text (but not the layout and pictures) at the marketing hackfest. Here's the text. (All are welcome to comment.) If anyone would like to help with design/layout, that'd be great. This is text to be used on a handout at conferences. Text for handout: GNOME's mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone regardless of physical ability, financial ability or language with free licensing and translation in more that 180 languages, with more than fifty fully translated. GNOME Desktop Environment [shot of happy user at a GNOME desktop] The GNOME Desktop Environment is a graphical user interface and full featured set of applications to help you use your computer. In addition to the user interface, the GNOME Desktop Environment provides applications including games, a web browser, an instant messaging client, multimedia applications and more. GNOME is the default desktop environment of many Linux distributions and Unix platforms including Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSolaris. GNOME is also available for installation on other Linux distributions, such as Mandriva, and openSuSE. These operating systems include GNOME and other applications to offer a full-featured operating system that allows photo editing, spreadsheet management, playing music, surfing the web and more. In addition, you can collaborate and share with others across the internet and within your own network. Accessibility: [photgraph of user interacting with A11Y tools] Tools to build GNOME, Windows and Mac Applications The GNOME Development Platform provides software developers with tools, developer documentation and libraries to build applications for both the GNOME Desktop Environment and other platforms and operating systems including Microsoft Windows (r) and Mac OS (r) X. GNOME provides developers with project hosting, distributed version control using git, a bug tracker, mailing lists, a wiki and more. In addition to applications included in a base GNOME installation, it hosts more than 600 other supported projects, such as photo editing, music players and games. Learn more at http://library.gnome.org/devel/ GNOME Mobile [Collabora developer holding an N900, smiling] GNOME Mobile advances the use, development and commercialization of GNOME components as a mobile and embedded user experience platform. It brings together industry leaders, expert consultants, key developers and the community and industry organizations they represent. The GNOME Mobile Platform is a subset of the GNOME Platform, and uses key technologies from GNOME as well as other free software projects, including Telepathy, GConf, Gstreamer and more. Devices using GNOME Mobile technologies include a phone and internet tablets from Nokia: One Laptop Per Child and its operating system Sugar; GPS devices; and the Vernier LabQuest, a scientific tool for students to use for data collection and experiments. Learn more at http://www.gnome.org/mobile/ GNOME Foundation [picture of storm] The GNOME Foundation supports the GNOME project goal of creating a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software. To achieve this goal, the Foundation coordinates releases of GNOME and determines which projects are part of GNOME. The Foundation acts as the official voice for the GNOME project, providing a means of communication with the press and with commercial and noncommercial organizations interested in GNOME software. The foundation sponsors GNOME-related technical conferences, represents GNOME at relevant conferences sponsored by others, helps create technical standards for the project and promotes the use and development of GNOME software. The Foundation also has 20 corporate sponsors and a board of advisors that represent the corporate sponsors. Corporate sponsors include Access, Canonical, Debian, Free Software Foundation, HP, Google, IBM, Igalia, Immendio, Intel, Motorola, Mozilla Foundation, Nokia, Novell, OLPC, OpenedHand, Red Hat, Software Freedom Law Center, Sugar Labs and Sun. [company logos] Become a Friend of GNOME Don't have time to write code? Help the GNOME Foundation in other ways, such as through a monetary donation. The GNOME Foundation's goal is to provide a free desktop for all users and you can help by becoming a Friend of GNOME. Your donation provides resources for developers, software and education for end users, and promotion for GNOME worldwide. In addition, your funds support GNOME events such as hackfests, giving GNOME developers a chance to meet face to face to work on improvements in GNOME. Become a Friend of GNOME today at http://www.gnome.org/friends (GNOME Foundation sponsor logos) 2009/11/19 Ben Konrath > Hi Everyone! > > We have a Braille printing expert on staff here at the University of > Toronto who has offered to help me with embossing the GNOME conference > handout. Is there something ready for production yet? I can ask her to > provide some input on how well it will t
Re: Braille printing for conferences
Hi Everyone! We have a Braille printing expert on staff here at the University of Toronto who has offered to help me with embossing the GNOME conference handout. Is there something ready for production yet? I can ask her to provide some input on how well it will transcribe to Braille and the issues involved with making a Braille handout with pictures and text. Cheers, Ben -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Braille printing for conferences
Keeping Ben in the loop. Ben mentioned it is worth checking if we could pre-print some graphics on the braille material so it will be visually pleasing as well. The amount of space available on a page depends on the contents, since we will be transcribing it to grade 2, so there is no constant ratio. I'll be happy to use liblouis to do some quick transcriptions and see where we are with space. But the rule of thumb should be about half a page of print text. Cheers, Eitan. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > That's awesome! > > What should we keep in mind? No images? Double the space (one page turns > into one)? > > Stormy > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > >> Hi Folks. >> >> Hope the hackfest is a blast. >> >> Ben Konrath volunteered University of Toronto's braille embosser for >> publishing braille marketing material for GNOME. This is great news! The >> cost of operation is the paper which I imagine needs to be of a special >> weight and type. It's CAD$ 100 for 1000 letter-sized sheets. On average a >> sheet of braille contains about half the text of a sheet of print. Their >> embosser has an option of double-sided embossing, which is cool. >> >> Anyway, I think one run of 1000 sheets would be an adequate number for any >> outreach needs we would have for blind folks at events. Of course I have >> CSUN in mind, but I did the GNOME booth at SCALE a few years back with Brad >> Taylor, and we had at least one blind visitor. So some sheets in out event >> boxes would be beneficial. >> >> When you guys sit down to plan marketing handouts, please think of this. >> >> Cheers, >> Eitan. >> >> >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Ben Konrath >> Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:01 PM >> Subject: Re: Braille printing for conferences >> To: Eitan Isaacson >> >> >> Ok, I just got the quote. It's about CAD$ 100 for 1000 sheets of 8 1/2 >> x 11 with all the taxes. >> >> Our on staff OT said that 1 written page normally translates to 2 >> Braille pages. We have a Braille embosser that can do double sided but >> it needs to be configured. If we end up needing a two page Braille >> document, our IT guy will get it working. If we just need one sided >> printing that's working now. >> >> Cheers, Ben >> >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: >> > I'm glad I can help out. That $80 was just a price I got from website. >> > I've submitted an official quote to the supplier here in Toronto for a >> > 1000 sheet bundle. I'll let you know when I here back from them. >> > >> > Cheers, Ben >> > >> > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Eitan Isaacson >> wrote: >> >> Excellent! Still trying to figure out how to get funding/reimbusrment >> from >> >> gnome.org, but $80 seems cheap for 1500 sheets, especially since we >> might be >> >> able to emboss two flyers on one sheet, we will only know that after >> >> transcribing. >> >> I'll ping the GNOME marketing team about that, i bet they have money... >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ben Konrath wrote: >> >>> >> >>> -- Forwarded message -- >> >>> From: Ben Konrath >> >>> Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:25 PM >> >>> Subject: Braille printing for conferences >> >>> To: ei...@ascender.com >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Hi Eitan, >> >>> >> >>> If I recall correctly, you were trying to find a way to do cheap >> >>> Braille printing. I poked around and we have a Braille printer here >> >>> at the University we could use for printing handouts for various >> >>> conferences. The main issue for us is cost of paper - I think a spool >> >>> of 1500 sheets is around $80 with shipping and being a grant funded >> >>> organization it's hard to cough up money for things. I have no problem >> >>> printing and shipping whatever handouts you want for conferences if we >> >>> can find a way to pay for the paper. Is this something you're >> >>> interested in? >> >>> >> >>> Ben >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> >> -- >> marketing-list mailing list >> marketing-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> >> > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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That's awesome! What should we keep in mind? No images? Double the space (one page turns into one)? Stormy On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Eitan Isaacson wrote: > Hi Folks. > > Hope the hackfest is a blast. > > Ben Konrath volunteered University of Toronto's braille embosser for > publishing braille marketing material for GNOME. This is great news! The > cost of operation is the paper which I imagine needs to be of a special > weight and type. It's CAD$ 100 for 1000 letter-sized sheets. On average a > sheet of braille contains about half the text of a sheet of print. Their > embosser has an option of double-sided embossing, which is cool. > > Anyway, I think one run of 1000 sheets would be an adequate number for any > outreach needs we would have for blind folks at events. Of course I have > CSUN in mind, but I did the GNOME booth at SCALE a few years back with Brad > Taylor, and we had at least one blind visitor. So some sheets in out event > boxes would be beneficial. > > When you guys sit down to plan marketing handouts, please think of this. > > Cheers, > Eitan. > > > -- Forwarded message ------ > From: Ben Konrath > Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:01 PM > Subject: Re: Braille printing for conferences > To: Eitan Isaacson > > > Ok, I just got the quote. It's about CAD$ 100 for 1000 sheets of 8 1/2 > x 11 with all the taxes. > > Our on staff OT said that 1 written page normally translates to 2 > Braille pages. We have a Braille embosser that can do double sided but > it needs to be configured. If we end up needing a two page Braille > document, our IT guy will get it working. If we just need one sided > printing that's working now. > > Cheers, Ben > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: > > I'm glad I can help out. That $80 was just a price I got from website. > > I've submitted an official quote to the supplier here in Toronto for a > > 1000 sheet bundle. I'll let you know when I here back from them. > > > > Cheers, Ben > > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Eitan Isaacson > wrote: > >> Excellent! Still trying to figure out how to get funding/reimbusrment > from > >> gnome.org, but $80 seems cheap for 1500 sheets, especially since we > might be > >> able to emboss two flyers on one sheet, we will only know that after > >> transcribing. > >> I'll ping the GNOME marketing team about that, i bet they have money... > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ben Konrath wrote: > >>> > >>> -- Forwarded message -- > >>> From: Ben Konrath > >>> Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:25 PM > >>> Subject: Braille printing for conferences > >>> To: ei...@ascender.com > >>> > >>> > >>> Hi Eitan, > >>> > >>> If I recall correctly, you were trying to find a way to do cheap > >>> Braille printing. I poked around and we have a Braille printer here > >>> at the University we could use for printing handouts for various > >>> conferences. The main issue for us is cost of paper - I think a spool > >>> of 1500 sheets is around $80 with shipping and being a grant funded > >>> organization it's hard to cough up money for things. I have no problem > >>> printing and shipping whatever handouts you want for conferences if we > >>> can find a way to pay for the paper. Is this something you're > >>> interested in? > >>> > >>> Ben > >> > >> > > > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
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Hi Folks. Hope the hackfest is a blast. Ben Konrath volunteered University of Toronto's braille embosser for publishing braille marketing material for GNOME. This is great news! The cost of operation is the paper which I imagine needs to be of a special weight and type. It's CAD$ 100 for 1000 letter-sized sheets. On average a sheet of braille contains about half the text of a sheet of print. Their embosser has an option of double-sided embossing, which is cool. Anyway, I think one run of 1000 sheets would be an adequate number for any outreach needs we would have for blind folks at events. Of course I have CSUN in mind, but I did the GNOME booth at SCALE a few years back with Brad Taylor, and we had at least one blind visitor. So some sheets in out event boxes would be beneficial. When you guys sit down to plan marketing handouts, please think of this. Cheers, Eitan. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ben Konrath Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:01 PM Subject: Re: Braille printing for conferences To: Eitan Isaacson Ok, I just got the quote. It's about CAD$ 100 for 1000 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 with all the taxes. Our on staff OT said that 1 written page normally translates to 2 Braille pages. We have a Braille embosser that can do double sided but it needs to be configured. If we end up needing a two page Braille document, our IT guy will get it working. If we just need one sided printing that's working now. Cheers, Ben On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Ben Konrath wrote: > I'm glad I can help out. That $80 was just a price I got from website. > I've submitted an official quote to the supplier here in Toronto for a > 1000 sheet bundle. I'll let you know when I here back from them. > > Cheers, Ben > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Eitan Isaacson wrote: >> Excellent! Still trying to figure out how to get funding/reimbusrment from >> gnome.org, but $80 seems cheap for 1500 sheets, especially since we might be >> able to emboss two flyers on one sheet, we will only know that after >> transcribing. >> I'll ping the GNOME marketing team about that, i bet they have money... >> >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ben Konrath wrote: >>> >>> -- Forwarded message -- >>> From: Ben Konrath >>> Date: Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:25 PM >>> Subject: Braille printing for conferences >>> To: ei...@ascender.com >>> >>> >>> Hi Eitan, >>> >>> If I recall correctly, you were trying to find a way to do cheap >>> Braille printing. I poked around and we have a Braille printer here >>> at the University we could use for printing handouts for various >>> conferences. The main issue for us is cost of paper - I think a spool >>> of 1500 sheets is around $80 with shipping and being a grant funded >>> organization it's hard to cough up money for things. I have no problem >>> printing and shipping whatever handouts you want for conferences if we >>> can find a way to pay for the paper. Is this something you're >>> interested in? >>> >>> Ben >> >> > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
