[technology-pmc] Graduation of ACTF Project with Juno Release

[Kentarou Fukuda <KENTAROU@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Technology PMC Members,

Excuse me for this short notice, but the Accessibility Tools Framework 
Project (ACTF) [1] wants to do a 1.0 release with Juno. 
Would you please check our status and give us your feedback?

Project Status:
- From project launch in 2007, ACTF team worked with communities and 
completed 4 releases (including 3 simultaneous releases, Galileo, Helios 
and Indigo).
- ACTF is mainly maintained by IBM team, but received multiple 
contributions from other organizations.
- ACTF is now used for official products and services [2].
- ACTF is also used as a framework for several research activities in 
academia.
- Tools on top of ACTF, such as aDesigner, miChecker, etc., are widely 
used for Web accessibility evaluation tool.
- We continuously introduced ACTF and worked to enlarge our community in 
conferences, webinars, etc.. (EclipseCon 2008, Eclipse Webinar (2009), ACM 
ASSETS 2010, CSUN 2011, CEATEC JAPAN 2011 ...) 

Further Plans:
- Enhancement of new accessibility guideline support (WCAG 2.0, JIS 
X8341-3:2010, etc.)
- Enhancement of exemplary tools
- Support for research and development activities on top of ACTF

After Graduation:
- Since ACTF's project scope includes exploratory development and research 
activities, we would like to continue to work under Technology project. 

Draft of release documents:
- Full version: 
http://www.eclipse.org/actf/release/ACTF_10ReleaseReview.pdf
- Mini deck:    
http://www.eclipse.org/actf/release/ACTF_10ReleaseReview_minideck.pdf

Thank you in advance for your supports!

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project.php?id=technology.actf
[2] http://www.eclipse.org/actf/downloads/index.php#consumers


Many thanks,
Kentarou
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Kentarou Fukuda, Ph.D.
IBM Research - Tokyo
Tel: +81-3-5144-2852
E-mail: kentarou@xxxxxxxxxx