[Promotion-technology] Fwd: GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor Accessibility Projects

[David Andrews]

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>GNOME Foundation Announces Program to Sponsor 
>Accessibility Projects 
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>BOSTON, Mass—February 27, 20088 — The GNOME 
>Foundation is running an accessibility outtreach 
>program, offering USD$50,000 to be split among 
>individuals. This program will promote software 
>accessibility awareness among the GNOME 
>community as well as harden and improve the 
>overall quality of the GNOME accessibility 
>offering. The program is sponsored by GNOME 
>Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Google™'s Open 
>Source Program Officce, Canonical, and Novell. 
>This is the second in a series of outreach 
>programs coordinated and run by the GNOME 
>Foundation. “I'm excited about the GNOME 
>accessibility outreach program because it 
>continues the promotion of compelling accessible 
>design as part of the mainstream developer 
>culture. We believe the set of tangible and 
>achievable tasks outlined will help improve the 
>already good accessibility offering of the GNOME 
>desktop,” said Willie Walker, Senior Staff 
>Engineer of Sun Microsystems, Inc. GNOME 
>Outreach Program: Accessibility starts accepting 
>applications on March 1st and will run towards 
>the end of the year. There will be two tracks to 
>the program: In the first track accepted 
>individuals will work towards accomplishing one 
>of the major projects nominated for the program, 
>earning US$6,000 and can take up to six months 
>to complete the task. The second track will 
>reward contributors US$1,000 for fixing five 
>bugs out of a pool of accessibility bugs 
>nominated by the program judges. Individuals 
>interested in participating in the program 
>should check out 
>www.gnome.org/projects/outreach/a11y. More 
>information about the program may be found at 
>the same location. Read the full announcement 
>at: 
>http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/gop-a11y.html 
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David Andrews and white cane Harry.