Nokia funds AT-SPI/DBus work!
In a past post, I talked about the investigation that Mark Doffman and Rob Taylor did to migrate AT-SPI to DBus. This work was generously funded by the Mozilla Foundation.
While multiple communities (e.g., GNOME, KDE, Open A11y, etc.) agree this was the right direction to head, accomplishing the task will be no small feat. It is not something even the most dedicated hacker can do in their spare time. Instead, it needs qualified professionals to do a bang up job. In my opinion, Mark and Rob from Codethink qualify for the position. 
It turns out that Nokia agrees, and has fully funded the effort. It is also great that Mike Gorse from Novell is involved -- like Mark and Rob, he's a good friend of the Orca project.
Woo hoo! Many thanks to Nokia for their courage to fund this work. Many thanks also to the Mozilla Foundation for their funding of the initial investigation. Many thanks also to Mark and Rob for persevering and digging up funding. What a way cool team effort across multiple communities. Open source accessibility rocks!
