Hi Derek,
LOL, it was 5 that was missing and not 4. Your childhood with
dinosaurs was also hilarious!
On a serious note though, although I had stated that I would be unable
to join the international planning committee for NVDACon this year, I
however can make pre-conference contributions in the following ways:
'• research plugins for wordpress that allow us to display schedule
times in peoples local timezones. Important.'
Waqas had found one such Wordpress plugin which we had used in the
Conference Schedule page for NVDACon Asia. I can ask him to re-share
the same for the purpose of the international edition this time.
'• Outreach: Can someone reach out to podcasts and other blindness
publications such as Eyes on Success, ACB Radio, and other
international groups? If you can even get me contact info, that would
be more than enough, then I can send out a letter informing them about
the conference. Important, important, important!'
I can certainly assist in this regard. Although I would be happy to
personally reach out to AT publishing agencies, I reckon it more
suitable if you, as the conference chairperson, were to contact them
after I provide required contact details. If you require this
information by a certain date, I would be perfectly fine with
initiating the process of compilation of relevant contact details.
'• Website writing. Want a chance to make the new NVDACon website? We
have multiple pages needing written. If you are interested in
volunteering, let me know! You should be confident at writing at a
level suitable for making a website look good. Important, important!'
I was responsible for writing all the website content for NVDACon
Asia, and I guess I did a fair job. I would be happy to be a content
writer for NVDACon International 2017 as well.
Note: Since NVDACon Asia's website content is now several months old,
and the limited Asian NVDA users that read it would have lost memory
of it, I think it would be okay to utilize some of the more generic
bits of the same for the website of the international NVDA conference,
if deemed appropriate and sufficiently professional by fellow
committee members.
'• Conference session ideas. Please be making a list of sessions you’d
like to see, and prepare to send the NVDACon call for topics far and
wide.'
I would be happy to assist in the preliminary promotion of NVDACon
International 2017, i.e. call for topics and ideas. I however cannot
guarantee availability during the times just before the conference
because of my probably tight schedule from March onwards.
With reference to your poll (not really a poll though) about a static
VS dynamic homepage, I would vote for static.
The creation of these many groups and subgroups, in my view, may
become potentially and superfluously confusing. I would like to
believe that all regional conference organizers should be interested
in all happenings and activities related to the international variant,
which should be the parent group itself, and all regional conferences
should be provided a subgroup. I am unable to comprehend the necessity
of an 'international' and an 'intl', because the limited amount of
regional and international conference coordination that takes place
for NVDACons at the present time does not justify the formation of
another subgroup for the same objective.
Thanks.
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On 1/16/17, derek riemer <driemer.riemer@...> wrote:
January NVDACON Update:
There’s a new international planning sub group
international@NVDACon.groups.io
https://nvdacon.groups.io/g/international
The old (parent) group intl@nvdacon.groups.IO group is hereby for
international coordination, and/or leaders of regional and international
conferences to coordinate or ask for advice. That group isn’t for
planning the international event anymore, as explained at the last meeting.
Subscribe to this group by sending mail to
international+subscribe@NVDACon.groups.io
If you want to plan the international conference, subscribe by Wednesday.
Also, let’s have a count down for some amazing news!
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We have a new website!!!!!!
I need to thank NV Access for kindly hosting a wordpress site at
nvdacon.org! We are about to post the call for topics for the
conference, and other news. We need to figure out how to get a contact
form put up for questions to go to, and/or for conference submissions.
These can be emailed to international+owner@NVDACon.groups.io or
nvdacon+owner@NVDACon.groups.io. A form to do this would be best. Does
any of our resident wp experts know if contact forms can easily be
created (I’m not adverse to writing some PHP if need be either). I’d
say, let’s get this call for topics, which was kindly written by Ashley,
out the door by Friday. We just need to get the site blog ready.
Do we want a static or scrolling front page?
If it were static, it’d talk about the latest conference only, if it is
scrolling, it’d have our most recent posts floating near the top. I’m
not sure what the cool people these days do (Back when I was a kid, when
dinosaurs roamed the earth, and you had to be careful or else you became
dinner (Being blind was so hard in those days)), a webpage with dynamic
content was beyond our wildest dreams.
Page suggestions:
* Homepage, TBD.
* Conference schedule (Must be static).
* Archives: Archives of the last conferences. (If we can’t do it on
youtube, we might just have to nuke conferences files over some age).
* past schedules (Should we)???
* about/motivation: why we exist, why have conferences.
* List of regional conferences. A page with links to other NVDACon
regional events websites.
* Other pages should be proposed on this new list.
We love our regional conferences!
If you are planning a regional NVDACon, ask me and I can try to get you
a .nvdacon.org subdomain E.G. us.nvdacon.org. We can’t host it however,
just give you the name. Regional conferences are a good way to have
non-english conferences. Please send an email to the intl parent group
with your request for a subdomain.
Volunteers needed:
* research plugins for wordpress that allow us to display schedule
times in peoples local timezones. Important.
* I and NV Access still need to figure out how we are going to store
archives. I’m hoping we can figure out a way to Youtubeify the audio
files from the past NVDA Conferences. Does anyone know how to do
this, and/or want to do it?
* Outreach: Can someone reach out to podcasts and other blindness
publications such as Eyes on Success, ACB Radio, and other
international groups? If you can even get me contact info, that
would be more than enough, then I can send out a letter informing
them about the conference. Important, important, important!
* Conference planning. I’ll be at CSUN. I want to try to organize an
NVDACon meetup. If anyone has info on what needs done to accomplish
this, let me know. This is a good way to broaden our chances of
being seen as a legitimate venue for NVDA users to learn more about
NVDA, and interact with other NVDA users.
* Website writing. Want a chance to make the new NVDACon website? We
have multiple pages needing written. If you are interested in
volunteering, let me know! You should be confident at writing at a
level suitable for making a website look good. Important, important!
* Conference session ideas. Please be making a list of sessions you’d
like to see, and prepare to send the NVDACon call for topics far and
wide.
* Music: If you are musically gifted, we’d like a promotion piece that
we can play at the beginning of promotional audio clips, video
clips, and conference archives, to brand us as a conference. It
doesn’t need to be long or special, but should set us apart. We also
would like introduction music to welcome NV Access to the keynote as
we did last year.
* archive and pull down and zip the old NVDACon website. Can someone
go through and archive everything on the old NVDACon website?
Josephs gonna take the site off line next month.
http://nvda-kr.org/en/nvdacon.php
Did you notice?
The number 4 was missing in the countdown.
Cheers, and I look forward to having NVDACon, come May or early June.
Derek
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