[10:35] <bethko> Hello everyone
[10:35] <bethko> Anyone still awake?
[10:36] <mdke> lots of people
[10:37] <bethko> Well I know some people tend to fall asleep at their computers
[10:39] <bethko> I'm new to this group and the list serve. I am running a 3 week long educational booth and we will be passing out ubuntu cds
[10:41] <mdke> wow, nice
[10:43] <bethko> Being the advocate that I am, I will do anything I can to help my clients and Ubuntu being accessible in full right off the live cd would be a major thing, but if I want this to happen I got to be part of the community and since I'm good on computers and explaining stuff about them I thought marketing was the way to go with it.
[10:43] <bethko> I am dead tired. But I have meds that keep me from sleeping
[10:44] <mdke> there is a lot of work going into accessibility now
[10:44] <mdke> a developer is working full time on it, and for ubuntu 6.10 it should be very good
[10:45] <bethko> I don't spend much time on IRC but if I need to I can access it though my cellphone.
[10:45] <bethko> Yeah, I been following that really close.
[10:46] <bethko> My grammar is a bit off cause I'm typing too fast
[10:46] <mdke> that's ok
[10:46] <bethko> I'm  hoping they can get the speech working
[10:47] <bethko> If they can get the speech working on boot I have the means to write tutorals for it
[10:49] <bethko> After that I would spread it through the blind community. And after that the Deaf-blind community that I serve
[10:50] <bethko> In the mean time I'm going to introduce as many people as possible to the os distro and the hopes that some of them will turn around and help improve it
[10:50] <mdke> great
[10:53] <bethko> Ok, I'm going to go listen to a podcast. Maybe get some sleep though I doubt it. See you later.
[11:21] <darkmatter_> hmmm.... I'm looking at the sled 10 cbt quick-start tour... I think something like that would go over quite nicely in ubuntu
[11:24] <mdke> darkmatter_: have a look at UbuntuWelcomeCenter
[11:25] <darkmatter_> yeah... I've seen that... but I mean actually included...
[11:26] <mdke> darkmatter_: what do you mean?
[11:28] <darkmatter_> as in included on the installation (flash tour crap)... could make it more enviting to new users
[11:28] <darkmatter_> *inviting
[11:28] <mdke> darkmatter_: are you saying that UbuntuWelcomeCenter isn't intended to be included in the installation?
[11:28] <darkmatter_> I don't know... lol... haven't looked at it recently
[11:28] <mdke> it's unlikely that Ubuntu would sponsor a summer of code project that wouldn't have any chance of inclusion, to be honest
[11:29] <mdke> well, it seems to be exactly what you are interested in
[11:30] <darkmatter_> ahhh... interested only because I'm a ui/usability guy
[11:30] <mdke> darkmatter_: sorry, I don't understand. You mentioned that a quick start tour might be nice in Ubuntu, I pointed out a project to do that...
[11:31] <mdke> did I misunderstand?
[11:31] <darkmatter_> and something like that goes a long way to enhancing the user experience
[11:31] <darkmatter_> nope... not really... you understood fairly well
[11:31] <darkmatter_> I'm just sleepy
[11:31] <darkmatter_> ;)
[11:32] <mdke> cool
[11:48] <darkmatter_> now, to get off my lazt backside and get back to my usability/accessibility project
[12:29] <kgoetz> :)