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SCaLE 31x BoF Accessibility Disability Universal Design and guest room
by Bill Zuke 06 Jan '15

06 Jan '15

der.hans I plan to volunteer Thurs-Sunday, and would need SCaLE to approve a room accessible for me and my electric wheelchair for those 3 nights (wide doors.) I would need you to approve and arrange such an accessible guest room with the Hilton. I do not have any credit cards. Please let me know if you can do that. Accessibility Disability Universal Design BoF format, I plan to have material for at least an hour for myself, but I am also trying to get other guest speakers on the BoF subject, and will compress my material to fit in as much of other speakers as may appear. So, I could personally speak for 10 minutes or and hour, the hour can be divided equally, and hopefully continue by internet during the rest of the year. I am letting people know the BoF room is on Friday at 19:00.

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Volunteering for SCALE
by Aidan PangChi Wong 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hello, My name is Aidan Wong and I'm an avid user of open source products. I've attended SCALE in 2008 and thought the organizer did a great job setting everything up. I've also learned a lot from my attendance at SCALE. I'd like to volunteer some of my time to the SCALE organization for any upcoming venues to give back, so much that I've already taken from, to the open source community. I would appreciate it if I can receive more information regarding any assistance I can provide to your organization. Thank you

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RSAnimates
by Lori Barfield 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

i probably ran into this link on facebook today, but have lost the source. i found RSAnimates videos captivating to watch, and challenging food for thought. (made me get lost on youtube when i should have been doing something productive. :-) this one explains the success behind open source efforts like linux: http://youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc haven't heard from some of you in awhile so i just wanted to share. ...lorib

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LUG disability issues
by Bill Zuke 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

I received an inquiry from Chirs Louden after the last SCaLE, but several of my e-mails have bounced. So, if anybody knows what is going on with Chris, please let me know. We have not been doing much as an LUG on disability issues, but it is not defunct yet. I had the address of chris(a)chrislouden.com

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disability interests at SCaLE
by Bill Zuke 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

I received 3 replies to my comments on disability access at SCaLE 7. So, I though I should give a brief introduction of myself. I am still a beginner at open source, but trying to learn. I have Ubuntu, and I am using Evolution for e-mail. I contracted polio in 1957, and use a manual wheelchair now. I am 1 of the founding members of the Disabilities Caucus of the California Democratic Party; however, I am critical of my own political colleagues, and I welcome help from anybody who is interested in helping disabled people. I live in Los Angeles, and have attended meetings at the San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group (SGVLUG.) Although my computer skills are still at a low level right now, I do have an active interest in using technology to help disabled people "live as an integrated member of the community at large" (that's legislative phrasing.) I do feel I have experience as a "facilitator" and as a "legislative researcher." My ISP is Los Angeles Free Net, which unfortunately sometimes has problems with some other ISPs, and some open source software. I just have to live with the kinks until I get things worked out. My contact information is also at William D. Zuke, P.O. Box 574, Montrose, CA 91021-0574; phone (323) 257-7958 (answering machine on 24 hours a day.) This information is just to establish contact. More later.

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SCaLE 7 disability access issues
by Bill Zuke 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

There were very few people with a visible disability at SCaLE this time. I know a couple of participants who are interested is disability issues, and I suspect there may be many others. I would like to see more focus on giving handicapped or disabled people access to the internet via open source, so I intend to help do some "outreach" during this year. I had a very good time. The handicapped parking was adequate, but could be overloaded if there were to be a high attendance by wheelchair toting special vehicles. Such an overload (if it were to occur) could be averted if invitations asked people to indicate their special needs. I have seen hotels put up temporary signs for handicapped parking, when necessary. People who need high ceiling clearance or extra wide spaces could be asked to notify the hotel in advance; and such participants could be requested to leave the large spaces open if one can get by in a low ceiling or regular width parking space. I did not thoroughly research the hotel guest room accommodations for handicap access. Hotel food vendors do not always consider allergies and special diet. I saw an employee change the water bottle and load ice, and consequently I would not drink it. Restroom (for men) did stink, for apparent lack of adequate air conditioning. The restroom doors were a bit heavy to open; pressure could be adjusted, if maintenance staff bothers to do it. The hands free water faucets in the restroom were good, although not all were adjusted for comfortable temperature. Apart from things which could be improved, there were no major problems. Some of the SCaLE 7 speakers were very awkward or quite bashful. I do appreciate the fact they are volunteers who are intelligent people. One might try to team them up with some other person who is willing to support the speaker with an outline and prompting; some prompting was spontaneously done from the audience. There is an event coming (March 16 through 20) near LAX. California State University at Northridge (CSUN) which has an exhibit of technical devices and services to help disabled people. There is a lot of overlap with computers and software. Some people would probably find the creative ideas interesting. It may be a good contact for a few open source people. I did meet 1 blind person who was using OS for internet access, albeit with difficulty. I do not expect institutional liaison between CSUN and SCaLE, but on a person-to-person basis there could be some common interests. I know at least 1 SCaLE presenter who was diagnosed at having "attention deficit disorder (ADD)" and I suspect there are many such people who can excel in OS technology. Beside that, at CSUN one may bump into people like inventors Dean Kaman, or Ray Kurzweil.

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Volunteers on the air!
by Orv Beach 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Bala and I agreed that it would be useful for you volunteers to be able to post to the scale-volunteers mailing list. So as of right now, you can exchange email with each other on this mailing list. Enjoy! Orv

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Pictures from SCALE 6X
by Hriday Balachandran 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi Folks, Thanks for helping out at SCALE this year. We are working towards posting all the presentation slides online, and trying to process all the video as well. John has posted many of the pictures he took at this year's event : http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnstanforth/sets/72157603903213043/ Cheers, Bala.

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