Accessibility: Team

A page to assist in getting new team members up to speed and to lay out procedures of how the team works.

VPN

For some things it's interesting to be connected to Novell VPN (for instance, to access some build pages (http://build1.sled.lab.novell.com/uia/)). So go ahead and install the package NetworkManager-novellvpn-gnome (which will pull others like NetworkManager-novellvpn, novell-nortelplugins and novell-ipsec-tools).

After that, you have to configure the VPN connection. Left-click on NM notification icon (systray) -> VPN Connections -> Configure VPN... -> Add -> Forward. Then you should see a combo box which contains the item "NovellVPN Client". If you don't see it, you have to restart the OS or NetworkManager for the new module that you just installed, to be loaded.

Then, after you select NovellVPN Client on the combo, click Forward again. You need to fill some fields (leave the ones not mentioned as is):

  • Connection Name: NovellVPN
  • Gateway: vpn.emea.novell.com (or the corresponding to your area)
  • User Name: <your innerweb username>
  • Group Name: novell

After that, to connect: Left-click on NM notification icon (systray) -> VPN Connections -> NovellVPN. You will then be requested 2 passwords: the normal one is your innerweb's password, and the second is a global novell password, request it in the channel ;)


Team Members

You can see a list of hackergotchis here along with their corresponding roles on the team, and links to their blogs:

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Andrés G. Aragoneses
a11y Prj Manager and Hacker
knocte::MonoTema (http://knocte.blogspot.com)
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Brad Taylor
a11y Team Lead
the chronicles of me (http://brad.getcoded.net)
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Brian Merrell
a11y QA Hacker
Brian's lovable online gazette (http://bgmerrell.blogspot.com)
 
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Calen Chen
a11y QA Hacker
Calen in Novell (http://calen-innovell.blogspot.com)
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Mario Carrion
a11y Hacker
it's gotta be smooth (http://blog.carrion.ws/)
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Mike Gorse
a11y Hacker
wanderings of an aimless vortex (http://lightvortex.livejournal.com)
 
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Neville Gao
a11y Hacker
Neville's Blog (http://figod.blogspot.com/)
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Ray Wang
a11y Build Hacker
Ray Wang's Blog (http://gnuray.blogspot.com)
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Sandy Armstrong
a11y Hacker
5:55 AM (http://automorphic.blogspot.com)
 
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Stephen Shaw
a11y Build Hacker
Decriptor's Blog (http://www.decriptor.com)
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FengXia Mu
a11y QA Hacker
FengXia Mu (http://fengxiamu.spaces.live.com/)
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Matt Guo
a11y Hacker
Matt Guo (http://blog.mattguo.com)
 

List of @novell usernames: aaragoneses;btaylor;bgmerrell;cachen;mcarrion;mgorse;ngao;rawang;stshaw;rguo;saarmstrong;fxmu

Getting Started

Things that each member needs to have set up

  • Your primary booting OS should be openSUSE (http://www.opensuse.org) 11.1 (or later)
  • Send your blog to Andrés (mailto:aaragoneses@novell.com).
    • Create one if you don't have one, you'll need it.
  • Send Andrés (mailto:aaragoneses@novell.com) your hackergotchi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackergotchi) for this page
  • Join accessibility mailing lists
    • mono-a11y (http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-a11y) - this is the team mailing list
    • Accessibility (http://www.mono-project.com/index.php?title=Accessibility#Reference) lists of interest
  • Live on IRC
    • #mono-a11y on irc.gimp.org. Direct link (irc://irc.gnome.org/mono-a11y)
  • Review everything on the Accessibility (http://www.mono-project.com/Accessibility) wiki page


Planet

There's really not an official planet for accessibility right now, because:

  • David Bolter's one (http://aplanet.atrc.utoronto.ca/) didn't have a proper top-level or 2nd level domain.
  • Recently new created www.planet-a11y.net hasn't collected all the bloggers from previous planet yet, and the admin roles have to be worked out.

In the meantime, we'll request to the LinuxFoundation (http://www.linuxfoundation.org) the creation of planet.a11y.org as another useful redirection for the latter.


Team Meetings

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