[libreoffice-accessibility] Re: Funding Wishlist

Le 2012-11-22 06:30, Tom Davies a écrit :
> Hi :)
> +1
>
> I like the sound of ...
> "It is sometimes good to meet as a team with 3rd party software
> providers to see what kind of progress or what type of cooperative
> development could take place."
>
> Could TDF buy dev time from RedHat or SUSE or Canonical or another supporter of TDF or at least 
> someone that  does understand OpenSource and is able to work alongside volunteers and inspire them 
> and perhaps build-up a team.
>
>
> So, what i would like to see is a person working at a slightly higher level than a dev but 
> focussing on developing a team to work on accessibility issues.  Perhaps only part-time but with a 
> job title such as
>
> "Community Development Officer" (for Accessibility) or
> "Development Co-ordinator" or
> "Development Lead"
>
> Waiting for a volunteer to happen to take interest has got nowhere is 2 years although a few people 
> have put in a lot of hard-work and done some great things (most recently Stuart but there have been 
> others).
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)

Doesn't hurt to ask. IMO, if there were a particular function that you 
wanted to hire a coder in order to complete, this would probably be 
accepted quicker rather than just getting someone to work on the 
accessibility issues in general, But, it would not hurt to submit 2 
items such at these.

IMO, I would try to raise the accessibility profile with more specific 
accessibility meetings and encourage 3rd party participation. For 
example, Dragon Speaking devs may be interested in helping out making 
their suite compatible to LibreOffice if some of our devs were to help out.

But whatever the accessibility team decides to submit. Remember 
Florian's suggestion that the requests "should be reasonable."

BTW ... the following teams are now actively working on wishlist items: 
website-infrastructure; developers; marketing;

Cheers,

Marc


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