[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Tom, We are not looking for anything too complicated. Just put the request into a couple of sentences that are clear enough for people to understand it as a wishlist. It should be clear as to what is being requested. It can be a simple as: Wishlist Item: Rationale: Estimated cost:

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-22 Thread Tom Davies
November 2012, 15:48 Subject: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist This may be more a question to Florian as well as the accessibility team. As LibreOffice Accessibility is a barrier to the acceptance of LibreOffice in many governmental/educational/institutional systems worldwide, would

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-22 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2012-11-22 06:30, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) +1 I like the sound of ... It is sometimes good to meet as a team with 3rd party software providers to see what kind of progress or what type of cooperative development could take place. Could TDF buy dev time from RedHat or SUSE or Canonical or

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-22 Thread Tom Davies
: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist Le 2012-11-22 06:30, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) +1 I like the sound of ... It is sometimes good to meet as a team with 3rd party software providers to see what kind of progress or what type of cooperative development could take place. Could

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-21 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Alex, Le 2012-11-20 12:40, Alex Midence a écrit : Hi, One area that I'd like addressed is Impress accessibility in Linux. The authoring and presenting experience is far behind that which can be had using MS tools on Windows with a screen reader. I am a professional trainer and use

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-21 Thread Tom Davies
' accessibility@global.libreoffice.org; 'Florian Effenberger' flo...@documentfoundation.org Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 17:40 Subject: RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist Hi, One area that I'd like addressed is Impress accessibility in Linux.  The authoring and presenting

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-21 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Tom Le 2012-11-21 11:23, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) +1 Accessibility is important. Unfortunately in LO it seems to heavily and thoroughly depend on Java which the entire rest of the project is trying to break free from. Apparently under Apache their version of OpenOffice is going to

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-21 Thread Rob Snelders
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, As far as I think LibreOffice has a big shortage on Marketing, I don't want to disrespect the marketing-team of LibreOffice, but I think there are to few people doing marketing, and the tools they have are limited. I think we can make a huge

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-20 Thread Christophe Strobbe
Hi, (I was away from this list for a while because I moved to a different employer and a different country earlier this year.) Am Di, 20.11.2012, 16:48 schrieb Marc Paré: (...) To the accessibility team, if there was funding available for such a thing, what would your items be and in order

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-20 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2012-11-20 11:39, Christophe Strobbe a écrit : Not sure if it necessary to fund a conference. Do you mean travel costs? The LibreOffice conferences should be good opportunities, but my experience in Paris last year was that it is difficult to get developers to attend an accessibility

RE: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-20 Thread Alex Midence
to home for me. Thanks. Alex -Original Message- From: Christophe Strobbe [mailto:stro...@hdm-stuttgart.de] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:39 AM To: m...@marcpare.com; LibO Mailing List Accessibility; Florian Effenberger Subject: Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-19 Thread Marc Paré
Hi everyone, Just to clarify. We are really looking for your team's wishlist and it must be of budgetary consideration. This is not a wishlist for new UX-designs, new logos etc. The wishlist should really be discussed with your other team members so that we can get a better view of the needs

[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

2012-11-18 Thread Marc Paré
Hi everyone, Just a reminder to your teams about this. We are seriously looking at different teams' wishlists. Please do take a little time out of your busy schedule and speak to your teams about any funding for items that you think may be of importance to your team or the enhance the