If you are involved in a Loco Team this post, might interest you !

Following a work that has been lead by the LoCo Council, Canonical agreed to provide some gifts to each approved teams, including a banner. This is detailed on the Wiki.

We (the LoCo Council) have setup an email address to gather all the needed informations. If you are in an approved LoCo Team, please ask of one your point of Contact to send and email to bannerrequest@reponses.net with the following informations:

   - Loco name
   - Contact person
   - Full postal address including post/zip code
   - Telephone number of contact
   - Any other relevant shipping info (e.g. CPF number for Brazil)

Please also keep in mind that this process will be quite long (may be a couple of months), so be patient once you have sent your request !

This blog blog is taken from Kinouchou's blog. And since she wanted to reach as many people as possible, she asked me to relay it here. So please if you have any comments, post them on the original blog post.

Handicap accessibility meeting for open communities webmasters

Accessibility and free software are two very important issues for me, that's why I didn't hesitate to join the accessibility and free software workgroup of the APRIL association in December 2009, in order to combine both aspects of these issues. I am also involved in the French-speaking Ubuntu community, who works actively on redesigning the website. A lighter, more aesthetic version of the website is a good thing, but improved accessibility is better. Given that many different tools are used to operate the website, it is rather difficult to know the different rules to make them accessible.

The idea is to organise a one-day meeting with webmasters from the different free software communities and with a specialist in digital accessibility. Armony Altinier, in charge of the accessibility and free software workgroup, accepted to join the meeting as a specialist. So, this is a great pleasure for me to announce that the meeting will be held in Paris on Saturday, the 20th of November 2010 at the Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme. The goal of this meeting is to help "free software developers who act as volunteers to improve the accessibility of the community websites they are in charge of". This free meeting will be the opportunity for participants to establish or widen their knowledge of the stakes related to digital accessibility, to learn to grasp its rules and to think on concrete cases, i.e. their websites.

Any community promoting free software is entitled to participate. the only conditions are to be the webmaster in charge of the community's website, to master HTML/CSS, to know how scripts work and to commit to improve the accessibility of their website. All information is available on handicap accessibility and free software wiki page.