Next Monday (11/10/2004), 18:30, the Haifa Linux Club will once again meet to hear Omer Zak and Ori Idan talk about:
Accessibility in Linux After the lecture, which is planned for an hour an a half, there will be time for pre - "Welcome to Linux" discussions. Omer Zak, who is deaf from birth, has been playing with computers since age 12. Twenty years ago he developed an Hebrew terminal program for Commodore 64, which allowed the deaf in Israel to independently use the phone. Four years ago he repeated the feat, allowing the deaf in Israel to use cellular FAX machines in Hebrew. Omer has been member of the Linux-IL mailing list right from the beginning. He contributed some improvements to Dov Grobgeld's FriBidi package. He has membership card No. 26 in "Hamakor". He works part time for Ozicom Communications Ltd., a software house managed by a deaf entrepreneur and staffed mostly by deaf persons. Omer will be accompanied by an interpreter, since he speaks with a "deaf accent". Ori Idan had worked as a consultant for "Migdalor", an institute for the blind in Kiriat Haim, for acouple of months. He has given a few courses to teachers there. Later on, he eorked working as an agent in Israel for computer equipment for blind users. In addition, Ori has developed (in the DOS days) a word processor for blind users. Slides should be available before the lecture. We meet in the Technion, Taub 3. See http://www.haifux.org.org/where/html for arrival details. Attendance is free, and you are all invited! We are always looking for interesting lecture ideas, and we will soon begin to schedule the next season! Have a subject you want to talk about? Or a subject you'd like to hear someone else talk about? email us. Orna. -- Orna Agmon http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~ladypine/ ICQ: 348759096 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]