Re: Exciting news: funding coming our way!

2008-02-17 Thread David Bolter
Will, thanks for being such an inclusive leader for this effort, and for helping make this community so enjoyable. All, if you are interested in seeing any part of this program succeed please join us. Don't hide. If anyone read my teaser blog last year (http://mindforks.blogspot.com/2007/12/inv

Re: Exciting news: funding coming our way!

2008-02-17 Thread Bryen
I concur! A Hall of Fame is absolutely a FANTASTIC idea. Not just a Hall of Fame for people who have directly and actively contributed to a11y, but also a Hall of Fame for people who aren't involved in a11y but still exhibit their best effort to make their own product fully accessible. They're h

Re: Exciting news: funding coming our way!

2008-02-17 Thread Steve Lee
Awesome! Well done everyone and huge thanks to Will for leading us. Now we can see GNOME and Open Source and really rock the accessibility world and even take the lead. I need to lie down. Steve Lee On 17/02/2008, Willie Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All: > > The larger community h

Re: Exciting news: funding coming our way!

2008-02-17 Thread Willie Walker
Bryen wrote: > Question: Will this funding be divided up equally amongst all mailing > list members? :-) (Okay, I can dream.) :-) It's going to be on the order of $6K grants meant for individuals to accomplish needed work in a 6 month time frame. With this, we should hopefully see a dramati

Re: Exciting news: funding coming our way!

2008-02-17 Thread Bryen
That *IS* exciting news. It's always good when the world recognizes that we are as much a part of this world as they are. Question: Will this funding be divided up equally amongst all mailing list members? :-) (Okay, I can dream.) Thanks again to Willie and everyone else for all their hard wo

Exciting news: funding coming our way!

2008-02-17 Thread Willie Walker
Hi All: The larger community has seen our work with identifying and prioritizing the accessibility tasks we find really important. As a result, they are now providing funding to get the work done. This is FANTASTIC news! More details will be coming out very soon (this week?), but the GNOME B