Thanks Simon, that seems to cover many of the options
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On 3/20/2006, "Judge Simon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Indeed, I don't think anyone ever mentioned a 'taking over the world'
>mentality - I agree completely that we need to accommodate all different
>types of development models/sources/licenses...
>
>That said, I also think we need to encourage developers to work in AT by
>giving them a range of nice tools in one place (if they so want).
>
>If you look at the project pages, you might note that we already kind of do
>this - the help portal (to the right) on each project contains links to
>external _or_ internal resources. It will only display the links to the
>internal resources if the external ones have not been supplied. In addition,
>on going to the developer's page of the project there is the option to add
>documentation and resources as appropriate. Yes, this needs to be
>documented better on the templates (it is in as a ticket I think).
>
>Thus, to an end user, it should be transparent as to where any of the
>resources live.
>
>Cheers
>
>Simon
>
>Clinical Scientist
>ACT
>0121 627 1627 ex 53245
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask]
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
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>Sent: 19 March 2006 22:35
>To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
>Subject: Ang. [oats-sig] Sourceforge: "Accessibility" Software Category on
>homepage
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>Good initiative Jonathan!
>(Note: The link was broken - at least in my mail reader, see below - so I
>had to copy-paste the second part of the URL to get there)
>
>And to Jason's questions/suggestions and Steve's comment:
>I also thought that was the idea - for OATS to be a gathering point for as
>much as possible of the useful AT software and other resources out there.
>This inevitably means that we must be open for all kinds of alternative ways
>for these resources to be made available, such as:
>- all on OATS - including home page and information, feedback/forum,
>source/forge/track
>- home page and information, feedback/forum on OATS - source/forge/track
>elsewhere
>- information, feedback/forum on OATS - home page and source/forge/track
>elsewhere
>- information and links on OATS - all the rest elsewhere
>etc.
>I believe this is the only way to get a wide coverage - to adjust to the
>preferences and pre-conditions of all projects we find relevant. It's also
>the only reasonably realistic approach, as we won't have the resources to
>handle anything but a small part of it all - so distribution of management
>is a very good thing.
>
>Cheers,
>Mats
>
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>Till: OATs Project Special Interest Group <[log in to unmask]>
>Från: Jonathan Chetwynd <[log in to unmask]>
>Sänt av: [log in to unmask]
>Datum: 2006-03-18 09:40
>Ärende: [oats-sig] Sourceforge: "Accessibility" Software Category on
>homepage
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>Sourceforge: "Accessibility" Software Category on homepage
>
>This enhancement request passed the initial stage and hence has a new
>URI:
>https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?
>func=detail&atid=350001&aid=1451595&group_id=1
>
>regards
>
>Jonathan Chetwynd
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