Kicking off a A11y WG meeting in 2023
Summary
Plan new meetings in 2023 for the Fedora Accessibility Working Group (WG) by identifying a meeting chair, a meeting agenda/notes tool, a cadence for the meetings, and a day/time.
Background
Recently, me and @ekidney met with several folks at Red Hat who are working on accessibility in the Linux desktop. They want to work more upstream and help improve accessibility in Fedora Linux. It aligns with our 5-year strategy and this is a kind of work we want to support.
Following our introduction meeting that we had, it would be a good next step to figure out a public, upstream-first meeting and team for identifying and working on accessibility issues in the Linux desktop space, but also more broadly in the Fedora community at large too. A meeting gives us the intentional, deliberate space to make sure we are in sync, we have opportunities to ask for help and support, and that anyone across the Linux desktop world can join in our conversations.
Details
From my own experience, there are a few things we need to have successful meetings:
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Identify a meeting chair. This is the person who runs the meetings and plans an agenda before the meeting. This person is the "owner" for making sure that meetings happen, notes are taken, and follow-ups are shared out after the meeting.@ekidney volunteered to chair the meetings. -
Identify an open tool for meeting agendas and notes. How will we plan our meeting agendas and take notes during the meetings? Fedora has used HackMD as a notepad and the DEI Team has a HackMD team space we could use. But we could consider other options. -
Determine the meeting cadence. How frequently should our group meet? Weekly? Fortnightly? Monthly? How often should we all connect? -
Determine a day/time for the meeting. Timezones are hard, we likely cannot accommodate all but we can try to accommodate as many as possible.
Note: Later, we should also identify someone to help with program management, in the sense of triaging, maintaining, and curating GitLab issues and helping with meeting notes/minutes.
Outcome
The Fedora Accessibility Working Group resumes a regular meeting to hold space for a11y issues and strategic planning for Fedora Linux and the Fedora community.