Willie Walker's Weblog

We've done Accessibility Summits at the past few GNOME Boston meetings, and they were pretty productive. One thing we did, however, was tend to isolate ourselves in a room -- I do not regret doing this since it helped us form a positive and tight accessibility community for GNOME.

For this year's summit, which is happening Columbus Day Long Weekend (October 11-13) in Boston, MA, I want us to work on integrating better with the larger GNOME community. The goal I'm shooting for is that mainstream developers and accessibility developers and users will start working as one unit. This goal is going to make this year's summit a little different from the past. For example, rather than having an agenda, we'll end up being a bit more footloose and work with the "unconference" theme.

Nonetheless, we still have some key things I want us to work on. If we can accomplish a few of these, I will call it a success. Based upon the talent in the community, I'm actually quite confident we will do good things.