On Mon, April 16, 2012 6:53 am, Emily Gonyer wrote: > I am planning to attend Ohio Linux Fest this year one way or another - I > have family in Columbus to stay with, so it shouldn't be a big deal at > all. > I'm game to help however I can, manning a GNOME booth or an A11y booth or > doing anything else thats needed. Just let me know :) > > Emily > > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Bryen M Yunashko > <a11yro...@bryen.com>wrote: > >> This year, Ohio Linux Fest will be held in Columbus, Ohio September >> 28-30. I initially thought about proposing my "A11y: Its about you!" >> talk, but after reading the OLF website, knowing their interests in >> promoting open A11y, and seeing how people commented about a11y at >> Indiana Linux Fest last weekend, I thought... Why not go for something >> bigger this time? Go for the bang! >> >> My proposal: >> >> 1. We set up a very large booth that isn't focused on any one >> organization, but rather on open a11y in general. Booth staff would >> include reps from GNOME, Mozilla, FSF, Oracle, etc. Hands on >> demonstrations of what our software can do.
this is a great idea! I've been talking with various orgs about ways we can work together to promote accessibility and this seems like a great way to really get started. let me know how I can help! karen >> >> 2. Propose more advanced talks, such as "How you can test to ensure >> your software is accessible," or "how to deploy a11y software in your >> environment." (I get asked this a lot!) My "It's about you!" talk >> really is more an introduction/marketing talk. It's good, but doesn't >> do enough to get more people to pay attention to a11y in their own >> development. >> >> 3. Organize a hacksession, perhaps either one of our traditional "fix >> what's broken in a11y" events, or "fix what's accessibly-broken in non >> a11y-software." OLF has a community day on Friday which is more focused >> on workshops and whatnot. An ideal day to set up hacksessions before >> the main event on Saturday. >> >> I think given the combined resources of the various organizations and >> that a number of a11y contributors live somewhat close to Ohio, we could >> make a good go of this. And potentially make this a blueprint for >> organizing similar events around the world. Getting more people aware, >> interested, and involved, is a good thing, IMO. >> >> It would also create an opportunity to invite local agencies, school >> districts, etc. that work with people of various abilities. A plus for >> us to demonstrate our awesomeness to target audiences, and a plus for >> the event host to increase attendance to their show. >> >> I'm not proposing we do this instead of traditional dotOrg booths. For >> example, if GNOME community plans to have a booth, they should still do >> so. But we would be creating a traveling "A11y Center" of which GNOME >> would be a "consortium" member. >> >> Frankly, I think this would be a more likely success-story outcome than >> at places like CSUN conference. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Bryen M Yunashko >> >> >> -- >> marketing-list mailing list >> marketing-l...@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > > > > -- > Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, > power > and magic in it. - Goethe > > Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter > and those who matter don't mind. - Dr.Seuss > > Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts > can be counted. - Albert Einstein > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-l...@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
