From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20] helo=mail.gmx.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16n8aQ-0004CJ-00 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:38:50 -0500 Received: (qmail 10780 invoked by uid 0); 18 Mar 2002 19:58:05 -0000 Received: from dhcp037-50-151-24.nt01-c5.cpe.charter-ne.com (HELO computer) (24.151.50.37) by mail.gmx.net (mp009-rz3) with SMTP; 18 Mar 2002 19:58:05 -0000 Message-ID: <001b01c1ceb7$30136900$25329718@ubr.charterne.com> From: "Alex Snow" To: References: Subject: Re: GNU/Linux in the U.S. Government Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:57:50 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I didn't know that operating systems had to be 508 compatible. I thought that that was only for government stuff. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" To: Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:17 AM Subject: Re: GNU/Linux in the U.S. Government > Hey, Jim: > > Very interesting. Any chance of accessing via gnome which should have > something for us soon. > > I would imagine a lot of what people there want to see is graphical--but > that has to be driven by numbers underneath--lots of numbers. Could you > get at those numbers if necessary? Is this an open interface within NOAA, > at least, so that you might just map, or have someone map, another front > end over the app via ncurses? > > Put this differently, is your job at stake over this? > > I ask, in part, because I'm helping to organize an event on June 18 over > at NSF about 508 opportunities for the open source community. > > On Mon, 18 > Mar 2002 jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote: > > > Hey Janina, > > The National Weather Service's entire Advanced Weather Information > > Processing System (AWIPS) is soon going to be entirely running on Linux. > > One of the fastest super computers in the world run by the Forecast > > Systems Laboratory runs on Linux. However, AWIPS is inaccessible > > because just about all of the applications run under XWINDOWS. > > > > Jim > > On Tue, 12 > > Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > > > Just when you thought that U.S. Government might be a registered trademark > > > of Microsoft Corporation (TM), here comes a U.S. Government web site > > > running Debian and Apache. Guess what? It's about disability, and > > > opportunities for persons with disabilities in the U.S. Check it out at: > > > > > > http://www.disabilitydirect.gov > > > > > > What would you like to see on this site that isn't there? What programs > > > and services would you like the U.S. Government to consider that involve > > > open source and organizations of persons with disabilities? Let me know. > > > I'll pass your ideas along. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > Chair, Accessibility SIG > Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) > http://www.openebook.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >