Steve, I had that very same problem with thunderbird. its not entirely accessible under linux. its completely inaccessible under OS X, so I use mail.app instead. on an off-topic note: I have an evaluation with an eye surgeon tomorrow. I am hoping they can resolve the excessive eye pain that came up on me shortly after I went totally blind last year. Unfortunately, the pain has been bad enough that I haven't really done anything about writing up the presentation for the march west side meeting (yet). I was thinking of a brief introduction to accessibility for the blind in Linux and show off VINUX on a PPC G3 powerbook. I still have a few things to complete on the unit before presentation, but they should be done and ready to go. I seem to have forgotten what day the west side meeting takes place on and I definitely need to arrange transport. -Eric On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > I don't know if you wanted private replies or have them posted to the list but Thunderbird didn't make it easy for me to reply privately so here's one nomination so far. > > I would like to nominate elinks, a really fine text based web browser. Unfortunately, the javascript support is very poor at this time and would probably require a major facelift to that support to include DOM support. I only mention it because a surprisingly large number of people still use it and seem to sware by it but I personally find the javascript support so poor that I go and use Firefox instead. But it might be an interesting project to get involved with. > > On 02/27/2011 06:18 PM, Paul Hahn wrote: >> This was originally posted to the dev list, but I am copying it here >> to get some more participation. Thanks, PSH. >> >> >> Greetings, >> >> >> Earlier this year Ed and I got together and planned out the next 6 >> months of PLUG-Dev meetings. We have posted the results to this forum >> and are working to keep the PLUG web site up-to-date, so that everyone >> knows what is going on. It is our hope that by doing this, interest in >> PLUG Development activities will increase. >> >> For your reference, future meetings are as follows: >> >> * March: MV-Proc and Project Outreach >> * April: DBUS Presentation >> * May: Debian Package Management Presentation >> * June: Discussion on source code control systems >> * July: Project Outreach Pizza Party (hackfest or presentation on >> work accomplished) >> >> One of the ideas that I hope will increase interest has been dubbed >> "Project Outreach". Project Outreach is a way for PLUG-dev to give >> back to the larger Linux community. This project involves PLUG >> adopting a free software project and contributing our time to making >> it better. >> >> The first item of business for Project Outreach is to nominate >> projects. The nominated projects will be evaluated at the March >> PLUG-dev meeting by meeting participants and a winner (or maybe two) >> will be selected by secret ballot (this means you should show up to >> the March meeting if you want to vote for your favorite project). >> >> So, at this time we are looking for project nominations. The project's >> nominated should meet the following criteria: >> >> * The project should be a project that appeals to a broad base of PLUG members. >> >> * The project should be in a state where improvement, or addition, is need. >> >> * The project should need contributions from people of varying skill >> levels (A complicated kernel driver for your proprietary hardware >> would not be a good option for a project). >> >> * We are looking for projects in programming languages typically used >> by GNU Linux developers. This means C, C++, PHP, Python, Perl, etc. >> >> * The project must be free software, it should meet Debian inclusion guidelines. >> >> >> Project Outreach means that future meetings will involve more than >> just listening to presentations (although we will still have them, as >> per the schedule). It means PLUG-dev members will be rolling up our >> sleeves during hackfest's. We need more than just coders at these >> hackfests, however. Free and open source projects need translation, >> documentation, design work, beta testing, packaging, and bug fixing. >> These are talents that many PLUG members, whether experienced >> developers, beginning developers, or brand new users, can contribute >> to. >> >> As mentioned previously, we hope to vote on which projects we wish to >> adopt for Project Outreach during the second portion of the March >> PLUG-Dev meeting (in one week's time). Before we can do that, we need >> your nominations. So, think about what projects would benefit from our >> future work. Then reply to this post with your nominations. You may >> nominate as many projects as you wish. If you wish to vote for a >> nomination, you must show up at the March meeting. >> >> >> Thanks for your support, >> >> >> Paul Hahn >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss