One of the most dedicated and passionate GNOME accessibility activists is Joanie Diggs. She is the new Orca maintainer, and a classic example of how a user turns in to an advocate who turns in to a contributor. Besides her paying full time job, in recent years she has had another full time job in the form of Orca web accessibility and bug squashing.
Joanie has definitely made her mark, and is yet to do a lot more.
Hi.
Here is another sparse blog post. Luckily, Bryen and Steve really wrote good summaries today. I’ll compliment their posts with some photos.
The talk I gave this morning went well. Hopefully I will have slides up soon, and Bryen promised to caption the video he took instead of sleeping tonight, so you guys could get that ASAP.
Everyone headed off to hear the CSUN keynote. I am here with Steve Lee looking over my shoulder.
We had some good discussions today, actually a lot of it. My brain is switching contexts on average every minute, I’ll try to be more focused and switch tasks every 5 minutes instead.
I am looking forward to taking testimonies from users we run into and posting it to this here blog.
Hope others fill in the details on the actual discussions soon, or I will have to.
If you haven’t done it yet, you should probably start lobbying your local iMax theater to screen the new A-Team film when it comes out later this year.
After what feels like an eternity of anticipation, the first GNOME Accessibility Hackfest begins next week. To put this into perspective, this won’t be a casual event. It’s a large conference riddled with many sessions of interest, a huge showroom packed with a milling crowd, 14 GNOME a11y contributors trying to get the most done together in the space of a few days, and countless hordes of cute (yet unpettable) guide dogs.
If you plan to attend, make sure to visit the ever-changing wiki page.
I would like to thank sponsors such as the Mozilla Foundation, for being a steadfast supporter of FOSS a11y in all it’s forms, the Mike and the Paciello Group for help with the venue, and of course the GNOME Foundation. The CSUN organizers have also cut us some slack in a largely expensive event, so thank you organizers.
And thank you Hylke for the awesome logo.
More soon.
I work out of coffee shops. It just depresses me to sit at home and not see a living soul all day besides the occasional house-mate.
There is one shop that really allows me to get into my zone. It might have something to do with the liquor license, the ping pong table and loud music. The problem is, they somehow blocked all non-web traffic on their wifi hotspot. Since my day primarily revolves around IRC, XMPP, SMTP and SSH, I really can’t sit there for too long before I need to find somewhere that will allow me to push my git changes.
So I thought I was being all clever when I set up OpenVPN on my private server and configured it to listen on TCP port 443. Does anyone have tips for tunneling arbitrary protocols through port 80/443? I thought the OpenVPN setup was especially nifty because it only required one NetworkManager click.