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Accessibility: Team

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

Table of contents

VPN

For some things it’s interesting to be connected to Novell VPN (for instance, to access some build pages). 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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Calen Chen a11y QA Hacker Calen in Novell

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Mario Carrion a11y Technical Lead & Hacker it’s gotta be smooth

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Mike Gorse a11y Hacker wanderings of an aimless vortex

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Neville Gao a11y Hacker Neville’s Blog

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Ray Wang a11y Build Hacker Ray Wang’s Blog

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Stephen Shaw a11y Build Hacker Decriptor’s Blog

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FengXia Mu a11y QA Hacker FengXia Mu

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Matt Guo a11y Hacker Matt Guo

Former Team Members

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Andrés G. Aragoneses a11y Prj Manager and Hacker knocte::MonoTema

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Brad Taylor a11y Team Lead the chronicles of me

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Brian Merrell a11y QA Hacker Brian’s lovable online gazette

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Sandy Armstrong a11y Hacker 5:55 AM

Getting Started

Things that each member needs to have set up

  • Your primary booting OS should be openSUSE 11.1 (or later)
  • Send your blog to Andrés.
    • Create one if you don’t have one, you’ll need it.
  • Send Andrés your hackergotchi for this page
  • Join accessibility mailing lists
    • mono-a11y - this is the team mailing list
    • Accessibility lists of interest
  • Live on IRC
  • Review everything on the Accessibility wiki page

Planet

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

  • David Bolter’s one 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 the creation of planet.a11y.org as another useful redirection for the latter.

Team Meetings

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