Well, well. Anyone from the Speakup community want to join me in LA at this event? Janina ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Summary: The Linux Accessibility Conference March 22-23, 2001 Los Angeles Airport Hilton Hotel, Plaza D - Taking place at CSUN's Sixteenth Annual International Conference, which averages 4000 attendees. - Free admission to the Linux Accessibility Conference (not including the price of attending to CSUN, consult http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf2001/index.html for admission costs). Join us for two days of: - Speeches by prominent figures in the free software and accessibility community. Individuals who have tentatively agreed to speak include Judy Brewer (Director of WAI), Alan Black (Creator of Festival Speech Synthesizer), Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems? GNOME Accessibility Lab), and Aaron Leventhal (Mozilla accessibility). Other noteworthy people who have said they plan to attend include T.V. Raman (Creator of Emacspeak). - Demonstrations of free software such as Emacspeak, Festival, BRLTTY, and Speechd. - Workgroups on GNOME (run by Sun Microsystems' GNOME Accessibility Lab), KDE, X Windows, Console, Braille, Speech, Internationalization and Localization (i18n and l10n), Internet Applications (Mozilla), and a Universal Accessibility Standard. - Planning and organizing for the future of Linux accessibility. If you are interested in attending, join the ocularis-announce mailing list by visiting http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/ocularis-announce. The Linux Accessibility Conference stems from Project Ocularis, a volunteer-run effort to make Linux and the free software world accessible to all. Visit Project Ocularis at http://ocularis.sourceforge.net. Mission: The mission of the conference is twofold: 1) To demonstrate the potential of Linux and free software in the accessibility arena. 2) To formulate a course of action for advancing Linux accessibility and to begin to organize interested supporters and developers into working groups focusing on specific topics. These topics include: GNOME, KDE, X Windows, Console, Braille, Speech, Internationalization and Localization (i18n and l10n), Internet Applications (Mozilla), and Universal Accessibility Standard. Who Should Attend: - Companies or developers who want to make their applications more accessible under Linux. - Companies or developers in the AT industry who are interested in better serving impaired users through creating and using free software. - Anyone who is interested in making Linux and the free software world more accessible to all. Tentative Schedule: Thursday, March 23rd: - Speakers - Presentations - Demos - Transition (technical overview and introduction to the distinct role of each working group) - Break up into working groups Friday, March, 24th: - Reconvene the next morning for another speaker - Hear reports from each of the working groups - Long-term planning Travel and Accommodations: See http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf2001/index.html for information about accommodations and travel. Remote Attendance: Join the ocularis-announce mailing list by visiting http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/ocularis-announce for details about remote attendance. Interested in Being a Speaker or Involving your Business or Free Software Project? Contact JP Schnapper-Casteras Conference Organizer jpsc at users.sourceforge.net Additional contact information available upon request Please forward this announcement to a friend or colleague. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks and copyrights are owned by their respective owners. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request at cs.vassar.edu" with a subject of "unsubscribe" or "help"
