Session Proposals for Boston Summit 2009

Suggest your own Boston Summit 2009 session, or nominate someone else!

I will run a session about...

• How to eat bananas on the ISS -- Rupert

• Note-taking on the web and on your phone with Snowy -- BradTaylor

• Netbooks, GNOME and Moblin -- EmmanueleBassi

• Clutter 1.2: feature and API requests for GNOME 2.30/3.0 -- EmmanueleBassi

• CSS theming in Mutter/Metacity (if anyone's interested) -- ThomasThurman

• Topic-based help, introduction and best practices -- ShaunMcCance

• Guided help writing session -- ShaunMcCance

• GTK+ 3 status, plans, roadmap -- MatthiasClasen

I'd love to contribute to or participate in a session about...

• How to make GNOME more useful to monkeys -- Rupert

• Attacking Gnome Goals head-on -- DafyddCrosby

• WillieWalker proposed that would be good to debate a lot of things about a11y, but he will not be here until Sunday. Here a rough schedule (in fact a C&P of last WilliWalker mail) -- AlejandroPiñeiro

  • New infrastructure -- D-Bus instead of CORBA. The work needs to be completed, tested, and performance work probably needs to be done. In addition, it may not be a drop in replacement but may require changes

    to existing implementations (e.g., OpenOffice might need to change some).

  • New speech support -- SpeechDispatcher+ instead of gnome-speech. We need to test this and integrate it into Orca and also make sure it works on all platforms.

  • New magnification -- part of GNOME Shell instead of gnome-mag. The work needs to get done, a D-Bus API needs to be written, it needs to be integrated with Orca, etc.
  • Clutter/Mutter/GNOME Shell a11y -- where do AT-SPI implementations belong, where is a11y work needed, and who can do the work?

  • WebKit a11y -- definitely an opportunity for Joanie and Xan to meet face-to-face and go over issues and give us a better picture for how to reach success.