>>>>> "Janina" == Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Janina> Hi, Sam: Well, you've certainly made my ears stam up
Janina> straight! <grin>
Janina> My work has been almost exclusively standards over the past
Janina> dacde, primarily Linux Foundation -- which we need to
Janina> reinvigorate, W3C which is highly productive just now, and
Janina> also ISO SC35 the subcommittee on user interfaces.
Janina> What are your standardization interests, if I may ask and
Janina> you'd be willing to say more?
Entirely unrelated to accessibility.
A lot of Internet security stuff.
See http://www.arkko.com/tools/allstats/samhartman.html for my IETF
stuff.
My previous company also did work with Open Flow and with Smart Grid. I
didn't end up being named on anything but had discussions with our
engineers on those projects.
It's not directly standards work, but I currently sit on the Debian
Technical Committee.
I think I would be a good person to work with in the following ways:
* I understand Linux technology. I care about accessibility, but I also
care about the challenges developers and product owners face. I'm
totally happy to use GUIs, touch screens, and the like when I can
actually use them and get work done. However I'm happy to scream
loudly when something like the VMware console situation gets in the
way of people doing their jobs.
* I'm reasonably good at explaining accessibility issue to developers
and I think I'm reasonably good at explaining the technical challenges
to non-technical accessibility advocates.
* I'm good at building consensus.
* I think I would come across very positively giving testimony in a lot
of these issues.
If I'm not needed, that's great. I have plenty of interesting problems
to work on in security, Debian, and non-technical work. But if there
are specific projects where getting someone like me involved might
really help, I do care that blind IT professionals like myself are able
to succeed. I am also happy to stand as an another example that when we
succeed at accessibility, IT opens really amazing opportunities.
--Sam
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