AEGIS 2010 Hackfest Schedule (Detailed)

(Please feel free to add details, agendas, etc. for any area in which you are the 'point person')

Sunday, 3 Oct

• Arrival/Dinner, etc.

Monday, 4 Oct: Testing and Module Updates

• Hackfest Kickoff
• Testing
  • Introduction - Testing Accessibility
  • 11:00 a.m. The Accessibility test automation tinderbox
  • Accessibility automation test writing howto
  • Questions and discussions
  • Hack
• Module update and demos: What's new and cool?
  • GNOME modules
    • Evince
    • Dots
    • OCRFeeder
    • gnome-shell + Orca
    • gnome-shell mag
    • Caribou

    • MouseTrap

    • GNOME Voice Control
  • Other AT

    • OpenGazer

    • VEDICS (and how is it different from GNOME Voice Control?)

Tuesday, 5 Oct: Documentation Day!

Help create better user help for accessibility features in GNOME. We will focus on topic-oriented help, rather than large manuals. The documentation team has a very difficult time planning and writing good accessibility help, because they are not familiar with the tools and the needs of users. Rough schedule:

• 10:00 Documentation day!
• Introduction to topic-oriented help and Mallard (2 hours)
  • Strongly recommend users have Yelp 3 (2.31.x) installed. Yelp 2.30 is OK.

  • http://projectmallard.org/about/learn/index.html to get a head start.

• Collaborative planning session (2 hours)
  • This is how we map out help content. After a planning session, individual topics can be handled by separate people.
• Guided individual writing (2 hours)
  • People write and revise topics and ask others for reviews. Shaun will answer questions, do reviews, and offer assistance.
• Replanning session (1 hour)
  • After writing and editing, you often find the initial plan needs revision. We'll come back together for another collaborative planning session.
• Write more, time permitting.
• Tele-center visit
  • Departure time: around 6.40pm.
  • Departure place: Hackfest area
  • About a one later directly to Beer Fest

• Beer Fest at Big Ben to celebrate our new topic-oriented help and documentation-writing skills

Wednesday, 6 Oct

• Writing documentation and bug fixing
• Other tasks and events
  • 2nd AEGIS end-user workshop - for those interested
  • Booth setup - outreach folks will do

Thursday, 7 Oct: Free-form Unconference

• GNOME 3.0 Work
• Conference Sessions
• Outreach Meeting

Friday, 8 Oct: Free-form Unconference

• GNOME 3.0 Work
• Conference Sessions
• Outreach Meeting

Saturday, 9 Oct: Hackfest Wrap-up

• Wrap-up