I'm pretty excited too! They'd like to have the projects picked and paragraphs describing them by the end of January. (They'll provide a template.) That's when they'll start accepting applications, recruiting students, etc. More details to come soon.
So I think our job is to pick projects and find mentors by the end of the month. Stormy On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Willie Walker <william.wal...@sun.com>wrote: > Stormy: > > This is AWESOME! Many thanks for your promotion of accessibility and for > getting GNOME some resources. > > We should talk about this in the weekly #a11y meetings on irc.gnome.org, > but there's a whole bunch of ideas at > http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved. > > Some of the things on the top of my list are Evince accessibility and > WebKit accessibility. Both require a bit of in-depth knowledge, though, and > would require some strong mentoring. > > Another area, which is pretty cool and could use some help, is MouseTrap. > It has a good start, and I'm sure Flavio would welcome help. > > Other areas include improving the out-of-the-box experience of GOK, helping > "fix" speech, testing, etc. > > In any case, the above are just quick thoughts off the top of my head and > are not meant to detract from anything I neglected to mention. > > Do you have any deadlines or dates where we'd need to get our act together? > > Will > > Stormy Peters wrote: > >> GNOME Accessibility folks, >> >> We have the opportunity to have two summer interns working on GNOME >> Accessibility issues during the summer of 2009. We just need to come up with >> projects and mentors! >> >> Background: >> >> At the Grace Hopper conference this year I went to a panel about the >> Humanitarian FOSS Project, www.hfoss.org <http://www.hfoss.org/>. As a >> result I met Trishan de Lanerolle, the project director, as well as >> Professor Ralph Morelli from Trinity College. >> >> The Humanitarian FOSS project is bringing students into software >> development by appealing to them with open source humanitarian projects. >> They've had a lot of success over the past two years. They bring all the >> students together on a university campus, house them, pay them and give them >> open source software projects to work on. The students have access to each >> other, professors and remote mentors from the project. Past projects have >> included working on disaster recovery software, volunteer scheduling >> software and medical imaging software. >> >> Another benefit from my perspective is that the humanitarian aspect brings >> in people that might not traditionally have been drawn to open source. (They >> were at the Grace Hopper conference because last summer's group included >> quite a few women.) >> >> Their project is 100% funded by an NFS grant right now although they'd >> like to have companies fund additional interns in the future. >> >> What is being offered to us: >> >> * Two interns during the summer of 2009, housed at Trinity, paid by >> Trinity, with professors to help them. >> >> What we would need to come up with: >> >> * Projects: >> o projects that a novice coder could get started on >> o humanitarian focus (accessibility is good) >> o something they can make good progress and complete in a summer >> * Mentors >> o mentoring is done via email and skype >> >> Does this sound like a good idea? Something you are interested in? >> Thoughts? >> >> Stormy >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-accessibility-list mailing list >> gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list >> > >
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