[Accessibility] Draft Minutes 22 December 2004 Accessibility Call
Peter Korn
Peter.Korn at Sun.COM
Sat Dec 25 09:54:35 PST 2004
Hi Doug,
It's "Marc Mulcahy" (he's not any more Irish than that...).
Regards,
Peter
Doug Beattie wrote:
>
> Accessibility Conference Call Minutes 22 December, 2004
>
> Attendees: East to West -
> Gunnar Schmidt
> Matthew Wilcox (Willy)
> Janina Sajka
> Kris Van Hees
> Doug Beattie
> Earl Johnson
> Sandy Gabrielli
>
> Posted Agenda:
>
> 1. Welcome and Agenda Review
>
> *** Request a scribe for today's call. ***
> Doug acted as scribe.
>
> 2. Review of minutes
> No objections - Approved as posted.
>
> 3. Action Item Review
> Janina continuing to work with FSG (Janet) and NSF to get the
> funds so we can lock in flight costs. Still working on this.
> No funds actually available yet.
> John will track funding a payouts to report back to NSF.
> Some may be electronic funds transfer to travel agents from
> FSF. Other may be reimbursements after the travel. Some may
> not have the float to do this and may need to receive funds
> prior to traveling.
>
> Brief progress reports for open items
>
>
> 4. Old Business
> January Workshop Preparation:
> Hawaii Conference -
> Those in HI have gotten flumotion up and running, but the
> system doesn't have sound or video cards for it (64 bit).
> Need PCIX card. Willy says PCIXpress is not compatible but
> that if it is not pure, but PCIX, we could use a PCI card.
> Sandy should look into this.
> George has the web site up with the info.
> Phone conferencing looks to be okay, but not fully tested
> because of lack of time so far.
>
> Invitee funding decisions
> We have about five more people who would like to attend if
> they were paid for than what we have funds for.
> Gunnar, his brother, Janina, four developers from Czech,
> should be approved along with another ten people.
> Janina suggests letting these people know to book and
> then be reimbursed and telling the others they are on hold.
> Kris asked this be done as soon as possible so the people
> on hold, that later may be able to go, will not have higher
> travel costs.
> Earl proposed to reduce the time, Janina would make the list
> and inform people who will be coming. Janina will send out
> information as to who has been invited and who has been put
> on hold.
> No one opposed Earl's motion.
>
> Agenda tweaks -- Braille vs. V2
> Bill LaPlant will not be able to travel to the face to face.
> Janina suggested moving V2 to the end of the week and having
> Braille up front. We still need to look at V2, but with Bill
> not in attendance it will be more for information sharing at
> the end of the conference. It still needs to be more widely
> adopted. Gottfried Zimmerman may be doing a remote video
> presentation for us on this too.
> We will wait to get others back before we finish this
> discussion about where the Braille gets placed. This will
> be fine tuning only to the agenda. We should still publish
> what we currently have for people to review.
>
> Agenda: Moderators for Sessions
> Janina would like to put people names to all the sessions,
> even for those not on the call. There needs to be an owner
> of even the breakouts so all will be prepared.
> Tuesday - okay - owner for every session.
> Wednesday -
> I/O: Review candidate APIs, requirements
> Janina will get one of two possible people take over.
> AT-SPI: brainstorming regarding dependencies/validation
> Bill to pass this to someone of his choice at his option.
> I/O: speech audio; console / terminal environment
> Marc McMulcahey
> Thursday -
> V2: Intro/discussion/response
> Janina, until she reassigns this to someone else.
> BIOS, Kernel
> Proposed to have Willy, but we will need to move the
> breakouts to the 10:15 time and the V2 to the 13:00 time.
> XServer, Remote Access
> Peter Korn (for now.)
> I/O: Magnification
> Bill Haneman (unless he passes this to Peter.)
> Speech: API for TTS
> Marc McMulcahey
> Logistics: resourcing, creating specs, planning
> George Kraft
> I/O: Magnification continued
> Bill Haneman (unless he passes this to Peter.)
> Speech: Interfacing with Audio Servers
> Marc McMulcahey
> Logistics: resourcing, creating specs, planning continued
> George Kraft
> Friday -
> I/O: braille TTY, lib braille
> Janina Sajka
> Future issues / what's missing
> Neil Scott
> I/O: Outcome of breakout groups, speech/audio/braille, 2005 roadmap
> Janina Sajka
> Summary / 2005 Roadmap
> Janina Sajka
>
>
> Agenda: Call for Papers
> In the past George has said:
> "To upload your presentations for the upcoming FSG Accessibility
> Workshop, then FTP to ftp://ftp.freestandards.org then put you
> files in the incoming/a11y directory."
> and
> "Alternatively, you could upload you presentation via the GForge
> Documentation Manager.
> http://gforge.freestandards.org/docman/index.php?group_id=19
> I believe you would need to create yourself an FSG account, then
> email me your ID so that I can add you to the "accessibility"
> project.
> http://gforge.freestandards.org/account/register.php"
>
> 5. New Business
> George suggested in a previous meeting we consider meeting
> again at the Ottowa Linux Symposium (OLS) in July. This could
> be a followup to the January meeting. We should start thinking
> about getting this on our schedules. (It would be good to have
> breakout sessions, but possibly a general session to get with
> the general community.) Willy suggested booking something as a
> BOF. Willy has taken the action to take charge of this and
> schedule for us once the group decides what it would like to do.
>
> 6. Identify key items for the next agenda.
> Our next meeting is Wednesday, January 5, 2005.
>
> 7. Adjourn
>
> (Please reply to the list with corrections as required.)
> --
>
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