Guys I'll take this as a positive acceptance of the idea - thanks for all the offers of support up to and including the tea pot Matthew!
Alan can you contact me off list to talk through the web stuff please? Chris R - I know the post you refer to and I referred him onto the Orca mailling list which he now participates on. I am aware of the Ubuntu Accessability mailling list but haven't done anything there as yet as they're up to their knees in sorting out the Gibbon at the moment. Chris D - yep accessability is firing on all cylinders at the moment including the speech recognition which was the main downfall of Linux until this Summer's Google Summer of Code. For interested parties, it's only available through Gnome for the short to medium term. DaveW - haven't got the costs yet, but they should be out in the next month or so. I know there's a couple of sound engineering types on the list, would you be able to offer any help on the audio recording side if things started to rock and roll? E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 04 October 2007 20:03 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Project Proposal Hi Ian, On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 18:14 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > What I was thinking of doing was running a stand there for the three days - > starting Tues 15/07/08 I think - demonstrating Ubuntu together with it's > Assistive Technologies in use. > Sounds great to me, count me in. > * get a loan of at least one laptop / desktop for the duration I don't think that's a problem. I suspect that you could get one or more in fact. > * a supply of the then current distributions That would be Hardy Heron - 8.04 which would be an LTS release. By then there would be media available. > * an installation guide to Ubuntu with Assistive Technologies activated, in > printed, braille and audio formats Ooo, like that idea. We also have a screencast that has subtitles :) > * increase my knowledge of Ubuntu from the surface scratchings I have to a > damn good gouge. > I'm sure we can help with that too! Winner. > Now, there's plenty of time until July, and exhibitors registration doesn't > need to be completed until 31/01/08, but I'll be honest and say it seems > rather daunting. > I'd say it's pretty damned easy for us to achieve if we work together actually. > I've got ideas how to deal with most of the above points, but wondered if > this'd be a good project for the Loco team? Definitely. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
