openSUSE 11.4 Release Party

March 14th, 2011 by sshaw 6 comments »

We are planning a community release party this coming Thursday, March 17, 2011 to celebrate the 11.4 release.  We are planning on having some media and usb thumb drives for anyone that would like to install 11.4.

This time we are changing the location a little.  We are still having the party on Novell’s Provo campus, but in one of the executive briefing rooms building H which is the tall south most building.

Everyone is welcome.  If you are planning on coming please let us know by sending me an email sshaw ]at[ decriptor ]dot[ com.  We are hoping to have food and swag to give away.

Details:

March 17, 2011

6:30 to 8:00 pm

Executive Briefing Center, Building H

Novell Provo Campus

 

Here is the poster we threw together.  The artwork was provided by someone in the community and the poster was put together by my awesome wife.

 

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A huge thanks to the community!

October 12th, 2010 by sshaw 1 comment »

As many of you know and have generously donated, Bryen was robbed while traveling through Spain recently. We have now closed the pledge as we exceeded our goal. I have now transfered all of the funds to Bryen and he is planning on donating the rest to the GNOME A11y cause. Something that is close to him.

So, a huge thanks to all.

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Someone in need

October 4th, 2010 by sshaw 6 comments »

Many of you that follow my blog probably know Bryen, also known by suseROCKS.  He is someone that has dedicated a significant amount of his time and effort throughout his life to spread awareness about accessibility.  This month he is traveling in Europe to help further this effort.  Unfortunately, while he was in Spain he was robbed.  There are several of us that have thought about trying to raise some money to replace these items.

So, if you’d like to join us and show your appreciation for all that Bryen has done we ask that you donate what you can at this link: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13645

Click here to lend your support to: Replace Bryen

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FireBreath 1.2 released

September 16th, 2010 by sshaw 1 comment »

This is an open source project that one of my friends at school started.  Here is a quick description of the project.

FireBreath aims to be a cross-platform plugin architecture, targeting:

  • NPAPI browsers on windows, mac, and linux:
    • Gecko/Firefox
    • Google Chrome
    • Apple Safari
  • ActiveX Control hosts:
    • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8

FireBreath is licensed under a dual license structure; this means you can choose which of two licenses to use it under. FireBreath can be used under the New BSD license or the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1.

Here is his announcement and reflections on starting an open source project.

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Mono Accessibility 2.1 Released

August 24th, 2010 by sshaw 1 comment »

We just released our first 2.x series update this week.  This release brings a 127 bug fixes.

Over the last several months a fair amount of attention has been paid to improving at-spi2 as well.  For those that don’t know what at-spi2 is its the next generation of Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface.  The new at-spi2 using dbus in an effort to remove corba and bonobo from the gnome stack.

A huge benefit of this work is that kde will be able to use it without pulling in a bunch of gnome dependencies allowing for a clean desktop independent accessibility infrastructure.

Some release details:

  • Improved compatibility with AT-SPI2, including fixes and performance.
  • More compatibility with Silverlight Accessibility for UIA Clients.
  • Caching improvements in UIA Client API.
  • Support for custom providers and client-side providers.

As well as where you can find the packages:

For more details – The UIA Team Blog

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