So, last night, or this morning depending on where you are, we had our first meeting of 2009-It's-So-Fine. We were blessed to have the presence of Stormy Peters, GNOME Foundation Executive Director, to introduce our topic of the meeting.
The GNOME Foundation has been offered two full-time paid interns for the summer from the Humanitarian FOSS Project (http://hfoss.org). In Stormy's great wisdom, she engaged our team for open discussion about how we can best use this opportunity. The project requires mentorship on whatever projects we choose to designate for the program. We were in large agreement that Flavio's (FlaPer87) MouseTrap would make an excellent project and Flavio has agreed to mentor the student(s) on this project. As this will be somewhat time-consuming, we encourage any interested potential mentors to contact Flavio and get on board with the MouseTrap project. Having multiple mentors is a good thing. For the second project, I have been assigned the duty of looking through our wishlist for ideal projects. We'll whittle it down over the next two weeks and come back to a team decision on January 27th. My task involves looking at projects that can be reasonably accomplished or get major headway over a 3-month summer period and ensuring that there are enough potential mentors to sustain the second project. In the coming days, I will begin a new thread to discuss the second project on the mailing list so that we all can provide constructive feedback before we make a final decision. Continuing discussion will also occur at our next meeting. (See next thread "Time-Shift Meeting Proposal") As you also know, we have recently begun discussions for formulating a GNOME-A11y University Mentorship program in which we reach out to professors and students across the globe in an effort to bring more student interest in a11y development. The lessons we learn from our HFOSS involvement will be valuable as we work towards the development of the larger project. -- Bryen Yunashko openSUSE Board Member GNOME-A11y Team Member _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
