Community Giving and Empowerment stuff…

What have I (we) been doing lately?

We tried to streamline the discovery/review process a bit.  With the new evangelism team, I will be working very closely with colleagues like Asa, Mike Shaver, mfinkle, jresig, sheppy, and dria.  (What an honor!)  And, as a part of this new team, I am able to triage requests and present ideas more quickly…resulting in a faster turn around time.  With a review process that’s been in place for over a year, it is a nice addition to be able to move a bit more swiftly through requests.

In the past few weeks, we have reviewed a number of new ideas:

We will be providing funding for an accessibility meetup in October.  Here are some deliverables from that meeting:

• Live region and Javascript application behavior in Orca screen reader
• Rich text editing in Orca
• A strategy and architecture going forward for Jambu on screen keyboard
• A system for automated testing
• A minimally accessible Chatzilla 

We will also be helping the “Rhino”project by setting up a VM on our community box in Amsterdam.  The VM will host a fee license given to Rhino by Atlassian for their continuous integration product, Bamboo.

Now, we are looking at individual contributor requests.

…Still looking for ideas to support, but we are really trying to find tools to provide to the community that will benefit larger groups of contributors.  Setting up a VM on a community box is an idea that makes sense because it allows many people to access it.