Minutes for Accessibility IRC Meeting of November 11th, 2010

• When: Thursday, November 11th, 7:00 UTC
• Where: irc.gnome.org, #a11y

Meeting Log

• 20101111_log.txt

Topics Discussed

Google Code-In

• Bryen was not present. No further discussion occurred.

Boston Summit output

• Joanmarie attended to Heidi student's presentation
  • They would require more guidance
  • Heidi was not able to connect with the people currently working on Caribou

• Joanmarie&Ale met with GNOME Shell developers, mostly about Orca integration

• Benjamin Otte is taking an interest in ATK, AT-SPI, etc
• They also met with compiz-eZoom developers
• Mike Gorse talked with John Palmieri about gobject introspection

migration to PyGObject

• Alejandro Piñeiro added this point to check the status of the migration to PyGObject GnomeGoals/PythonIntrospectionPorting https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626218

• Affects Orca, Caribou and Accerciser
• Alejandro Piñeiro asked about current plans on Orca
• Alejandro Leiva is optimistic with the change (about feasibility), and it will be done eventually
• Alejandro Piñeiro fears if pygtk will be deprecated on GNOME 3.0
• If so, this is another GNOME 3.0 risk.
• *Required to ask* (desktop-devel-list)
• No one from Accerciser or Caribou to ask

GNOME 3.0

• Alejandro Piñeiro asked Carlos Garcia and Fernando Herrera about gnome-panel status
• The status is the same, and in fact gnome-panel seems somewhat abandoned
• *Require to ask* (desktop-devel-list)

Miscellaneous

• Joanie told us that Q3 Marketing page is updated with the accessibility data.
• Mario Sanchez reports that current work on WebkitGTK accessibility work is in a good shape, and almost finished the current 25331 metabug
• Alejandro Piñeiro suggested that it would be a good idea to close this one with the current scope and create another one
• Joanmarie said that she already planned that

Agenda for the next meeting

1. Roadmap

2. Unity nux toolkit (Penelope's update)

3. Google Code-in (hoping Bryen to be there)

4. Status of the migration to PyGObject GnomeGoals/PythonIntrospectionPorting https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626218

5. GNOME 3.0 updates
6. Thoughts on "Do we need more hackfests?"
7. Reminders:

   • Did you update your section(s) of the GNOME 3.0 page?

   • Do you have feedback for Heidi and her students regarding Caribou Requirements?

8. Your topic here
9. Your topic here