[OLPC-GSoC] Congrats!!!!

[Samuel Klein]

Yes, I really want to so something significant with accessibility.  I feel
that we need some good overarching guidance in this area, so that we are not
simply pursuing the most interesting-sounding projects over a summer, but
actually addressing comprehensively the set of accessibility issues, and
making progress towards a greater goal.  I know some excellent people at the
CAST project at the Harvard Education school, through Antonio Battro, which
I hope we can convince to take a larger role in this.

At any rate, working out an accessibility plan (and identifying existing
plans we can base ours off of) is something valuable that needs doing.  Ed,
perhaps you have some ideas here...

SJ


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Hemant Goyal <goyal.hemant at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi Arjun,
>>
>> Thank you very much for the good wishes :). I am extremely excited about
>> finishing this project in the coming summer :D. It'll be nice summer with
>> lots of python and sugar hacking :D
>>
>
> Great to know that! The point I was trying to make was that accessibility
> has indeed become an important goal in OLPC's developmental efforts hence
> projects such as yours become so important....
>
> I remember, SJ, some time back was planning to have a whole
> summer-of-content dedicated to accessibility, which I think is a great idea.
>
>
>
> Arjun
>
>
>>
>> @Edward: Thats a really nice idea :) There is a lot that can be done with
>> respect to improving the phoneme models of eSpeak for getting better quality
>> sound output. Some resources are posted at :
>> http://espeak.sourceforge.net/add_language.html
>>
>> Best,
>> Hemant
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Arjun Sarwal <arjun at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hemant and Assiem
>>>
>>>
>>> Congrats on getting selected in GSoC!!!
>>>
>>> When do your internships start and where will you be working from ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Great to see both these that both the selected projects have forked
>>> from the initial Speech Server project that we've worked upon.
>>>
>>> Congrats once again.
>>>
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Arjun
>>>
>>> --
>>> Arjun Sarwal
>>> Intern, One Laptop per Child
>>> Email: arjun at laptop.org
>>> IRC: arjs on irc.freenode.net in #olpc, #olpc-health, #sugar
>>> Skype: arjunsarwal85
>>>
>>
>>
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> --
> Arjun Sarwal
> Intern, One Laptop per Child
> Email: arjun at laptop.org
> IRC: arjs on irc.freenode.net in #olpc, #olpc-health, #sugar
> Skype: arjunsarwal85
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