Minutes for Accessibility IRC Meeting of July 22nd, 2010

• When: Thursday, July 22th, 6:00 UTC
• Where: irc.gnome.org, #a11y

Meeting Log

• 20100722_log.txt

Topics Discussed

AEGIS Conference

• Alejandro P. ask people if they have applied to http://live.gnome.org/Travel

  • Mike Gorse, Li Yuan and Ke Wang no, but doing while the meeting
• As Chema Casanova and Germán Poo are in Spain due Guadec-es, Alejandro Piñeiro will talk with them, to check who has applied
• Bryen told in a email that he is approaching alternative funding sources. Not here to gave updates.
• Fer's company is handling document production (braille, large print, electronic format) for the booth stuff
• Items from previous meetings in the same state.

GNOME 3.0

Gtk3.0

• Alejandro Piñeiro asks about the status of gtk3.0, specifically to Joanmarie
  • Also asks if this is affected by the new python bindings
• Joanie answered that she didn't have reviewed that, her priority is the regression testing
• Also said that he plans to do that
• When Eitan Isaacson were requested, he said that he plans to give the maintainer status to Brian Nitz
  • Also confirmed that he will not be at AEGIS

at-spi2

• Recents mail on gnu accessibility lists about performance problem
• Alejandro P. asks Joanmarie and Mike Gorse if there are any kind of comparative measures
• Just observations

• TheMuso suggested that it would be good to use a environment with just one or the other

• Also comments that Maverick (Ubuntu) will have at-spi based on CORBA

• <rant about getting a pure dbus environment>

Other

• TheMuso announce that there are a possibility of a opentts/speech-dispatcher merge. Brailcom meeting soon.

• Joanmarie suggested a change on the meetings scheduled at 6:00 UTC to be moved to 7:00 UTC

Agenda for the next meeting

(NOTE: Taken from the postponed agenda. Realistically, depending on what transpires with respect to funding, we might need to postpone these items -- or do email updates -- again.)

AEGIS Conference

• After meeting with foundation, we need a final budget value
• German propose try to contact local governments, in relation with the lodging
• Gently reminder to the people that want sponsorship to use travel comitte
• Other Funding Issues/Updates
  • Status asking other companies
• Schedule/Agenda Update
• Other Updates

HFOSS/OUTREACH

• HFOSS
• WNEC

• LinuxCon-Brazil

• Did Bryen provide his description to the gnome-accessibility-list?
• Has the booth for CSUN 2011 been confirmed/paid for?

GNOME 3.0 Status

• Reminder: Did you update your areas on the GNOME 3.0 Status page?

• gnome-mag

• GnomeVoiceControl and CSPI

• With the new goal about gsettings migration, what we are going to do with things like:

  • Universal Access Preferences UI: it says a lot that the main use is modify gconf settings

  • Orca is already working on it
  • Main a11y gconf property "/desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility", and relocate ones, "/desktop/gnome/interface/at-spi-corba" are defined on a *deprecated for years* library, libgnome
    • Should we use this gsettings migration as a good moment to move to a proper place?
    • Move it where?

Documentation

• Status on cleaning up our documentation for developers

  • http://library.gnome.org/devel/atk is the official documentation

  • Why don't we have a http://library.gnome.org/devel/at-spi? What would it take to get that done?

  • We've got to decide what to do about http://live.gnome.org/GAP (So we have not two, but three a11y sites!)

• There's a http://balsa.gnome.org and a http://glade.gnome.org. Could/should we have an accessibility.gnome.org? (And if so, whom do we ask?)