Getting Tech info out to people

[Bryen-2]

We are seeing increased interest by developers to ensure their software
is a11y-compliant.  The problem is oftentimes, they come into our IRC
channel with the question "HI, I'd like to do this with my app, how do I
get started?"  But, understandably, the channel isn't highly active
during non-meeting times.

I do my best to try to ping people on the nicklist and link them up to
this wonderfully ambitious folks, but it is always a hit-and-miss.

As an example, Jason Smith of GNOME-DO fame came in about 1/2 hour after
last night's meeting ready to jump in with his efforts to a11y-itize
GNOME-DO.  He was planning to spend the night working on it, but sadly
we couldn't connect the right people to him.

I'd like to see if maybe one of you could write a good documentation to
put on the wiki, so I can at least point them to relevant information.
(We should put this in the /topic of the channel as well.)

We need to get information to them quickly while the fire is still hot
in their hearts.

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Bryen Yunashko


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[Willie Walker]

Hi Bryen:

There is a GOPA task underway that Vincent Alexander is working on:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/tasks/documentation/

The current drafts are here:

http://snoringbeagle.net/

And we have a bug open to set up something to automatically push the docs:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552532

When all this is in place, I want to update
http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility to make sure it and its subpages
point to the right spot.

In fact, I plan on dedicating my entire Monday this coming Monday to
revisit live.gnome.org/Accessibility and live.gnome.org/GAP to see what
can be done about reconciling everything under
live.gnome.org/Accessibility and getting things in place.  If you'd like
to help, we could attempt to do it via IRC.

Thanks!

Will

Bryen wrote:

> We are seeing increased interest by developers to ensure their software
> is a11y-compliant.  The problem is oftentimes, they come into our IRC
> channel with the question "HI, I'd like to do this with my app, how do I
> get started?"  But, understandably, the channel isn't highly active
> during non-meeting times.
>
> I do my best to try to ping people on the nicklist and link them up to
> this wonderfully ambitious folks, but it is always a hit-and-miss.
>
> As an example, Jason Smith of GNOME-DO fame came in about 1/2 hour after
> last night's meeting ready to jump in with his efforts to a11y-itize
> GNOME-DO.  He was planning to spend the night working on it, but sadly
> we couldn't connect the right people to him.
>
> I'd like to see if maybe one of you could write a good documentation to
> put on the wiki, so I can at least point them to relevant information.
> (We should put this in the /topic of the channel as well.)
>
> We need to get information to them quickly while the fire is still hot
> in their hearts.
>

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[Bryen-2]

Sorry, I hadn't realized that the document focused on the technical
aspects.  From what I had read before, I had the impression it was more
of a "how to use a11y functions" for users.  Perhaps I was wrong and
I'll have to re-review the document.

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 12:06 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:

> Hi Bryen:
>
> There is a GOPA task underway that Vincent Alexander is working on:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/tasks/documentation/
>
> The current drafts are here:
>
> http://snoringbeagle.net/
>
> And we have a bug open to set up something to automatically push the docs:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552532
>
> When all this is in place, I want to update
> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility to make sure it and its subpages
> point to the right spot.
>
> In fact, I plan on dedicating my entire Monday this coming Monday to
> revisit live.gnome.org/Accessibility and live.gnome.org/GAP to see what
> can be done about reconciling everything under
> live.gnome.org/Accessibility and getting things in place.  If you'd like
> to help, we could attempt to do it via IRC.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Will
>
> Bryen wrote:
> > We are seeing increased interest by developers to ensure their software
> > is a11y-compliant.  The problem is oftentimes, they come into our IRC
> > channel with the question "HI, I'd like to do this with my app, how do I
> > get started?"  But, understandably, the channel isn't highly active
> > during non-meeting times.
> >
> > I do my best to try to ping people on the nicklist and link them up to
> > this wonderfully ambitious folks, but it is always a hit-and-miss.
> >
> > As an example, Jason Smith of GNOME-DO fame came in about 1/2 hour after
> > last night's meeting ready to jump in with his efforts to a11y-itize
> > GNOME-DO.  He was planning to spend the night working on it, but sadly
> > we couldn't connect the right people to him.
> >
> > I'd like to see if maybe one of you could write a good documentation to
> > put on the wiki, so I can at least point them to relevant information.
> > (We should put this in the /topic of the channel as well.)
> >
> > We need to get information to them quickly while the fire is still hot
> > in their hearts.
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list
> gnome-accessibility-list@...
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

--
Bryen Yunashko
Proud 2008 Candidate for openSUSE Board

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[Willie Walker]

There's actually three documents:

1) For users: http://snoringbeagle.net/gag.html
2) For developers: http://snoringbeagle.net/gadg.html
3) For OS distributions: http://snoringbeagle.net/dtg.html

Hope this helps!

Will

Bryen wrote:

> Sorry, I hadn't realized that the document focused on the technical
> aspects.  From what I had read before, I had the impression it was more
> of a "how to use a11y functions" for users.  Perhaps I was wrong and
> I'll have to re-review the document.
>
> On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 12:06 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
>> Hi Bryen:
>>
>> There is a GOPA task underway that Vincent Alexander is working on:
>>
>> http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/tasks/documentation/
>>
>> The current drafts are here:
>>
>> http://snoringbeagle.net/
>>
>> And we have a bug open to set up something to automatically push the docs:
>>
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552532
>>
>> When all this is in place, I want to update
>> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility to make sure it and its subpages
>> point to the right spot.
>>
>> In fact, I plan on dedicating my entire Monday this coming Monday to
>> revisit live.gnome.org/Accessibility and live.gnome.org/GAP to see what
>> can be done about reconciling everything under
>> live.gnome.org/Accessibility and getting things in place.  If you'd like
>> to help, we could attempt to do it via IRC.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Will
>>
>> Bryen wrote:
>>> We are seeing increased interest by developers to ensure their software
>>> is a11y-compliant.  The problem is oftentimes, they come into our IRC
>>> channel with the question "HI, I'd like to do this with my app, how do I
>>> get started?"  But, understandably, the channel isn't highly active
>>> during non-meeting times.
>>>
>>> I do my best to try to ping people on the nicklist and link them up to
>>> this wonderfully ambitious folks, but it is always a hit-and-miss.
>>>
>>> As an example, Jason Smith of GNOME-DO fame came in about 1/2 hour after
>>> last night's meeting ready to jump in with his efforts to a11y-itize
>>> GNOME-DO.  He was planning to spend the night working on it, but sadly
>>> we couldn't connect the right people to him.
>>>
>>> I'd like to see if maybe one of you could write a good documentation to
>>> put on the wiki, so I can at least point them to relevant information.
>>> (We should put this in the /topic of the channel as well.)
>>>
>>> We need to get information to them quickly while the fire is still hot
>>> in their hearts.
>>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list
>> gnome-accessibility-list@...
>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

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[Bryen-2]

Awesome.  Can we add these links to the /topic?  I don't have /topic
rights.

Also, let's give the correct link to where to register for this mailing
list in there as well.


On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 13:04 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:

> There's actually three documents:
>
> 1) For users: http://snoringbeagle.net/gag.html
> 2) For developers: http://snoringbeagle.net/gadg.html
> 3) For OS distributions: http://snoringbeagle.net/dtg.html
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Will
>
> Bryen wrote:
> > Sorry, I hadn't realized that the document focused on the technical
> > aspects.  From what I had read before, I had the impression it was more
> > of a "how to use a11y functions" for users.  Perhaps I was wrong and
> > I'll have to re-review the document.
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 12:06 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> >> Hi Bryen:
> >>
> >> There is a GOPA task underway that Vincent Alexander is working on:
> >>
> >> http://www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y/tasks/documentation/
> >>
> >> The current drafts are here:
> >>
> >> http://snoringbeagle.net/
> >>
> >> And we have a bug open to set up something to automatically push the docs:
> >>
> >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552532
> >>
> >> When all this is in place, I want to update
> >> http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility to make sure it and its subpages
> >> point to the right spot.
> >>
> >> In fact, I plan on dedicating my entire Monday this coming Monday to
> >> revisit live.gnome.org/Accessibility and live.gnome.org/GAP to see what
> >> can be done about reconciling everything under
> >> live.gnome.org/Accessibility and getting things in place.  If you'd like
> >> to help, we could attempt to do it via IRC.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Will
> >>
> >> Bryen wrote:
> >>> We are seeing increased interest by developers to ensure their software
> >>> is a11y-compliant.  The problem is oftentimes, they come into our IRC
> >>> channel with the question "HI, I'd like to do this with my app, how do I
> >>> get started?"  But, understandably, the channel isn't highly active
> >>> during non-meeting times.
> >>>
> >>> I do my best to try to ping people on the nicklist and link them up to
> >>> this wonderfully ambitious folks, but it is always a hit-and-miss.
> >>>
> >>> As an example, Jason Smith of GNOME-DO fame came in about 1/2 hour after
> >>> last night's meeting ready to jump in with his efforts to a11y-itize
> >>> GNOME-DO.  He was planning to spend the night working on it, but sadly
> >>> we couldn't connect the right people to him.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to see if maybe one of you could write a good documentation to
> >>> put on the wiki, so I can at least point them to relevant information.
> >>> (We should put this in the /topic of the channel as well.)
> >>>
> >>> We need to get information to them quickly while the fire is still hot
> >>> in their hearts.
> >>>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list
> >> gnome-accessibility-list@...
> >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
>
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list
> gnome-accessibility-list@...
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list

--
Bryen Yunashko
Proud 2008 Candidate for openSUSE Board

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