From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.90.74.62] (helo=babel.hpcc.noaa.gov) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16nhUd-00080e-00 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:55:11 -0500 Received: from localhost (jwantz@localhost) by babel.hpcc.noaa.gov (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g2KEtAJ32019 for ; Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:55:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:55:10 -0500 (EST) From: jwantz@hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: GNU/Linux in the U.S. Government In-Reply-To: <001b01c1ceb7$30136900$25329718@ubr.charterne.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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: Hi, We are talking about government computers running Linux. Therefore, they should be compliant. There is nothing inherently non-compliant about Linux, just X Jim Wantz On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Alex Snow wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >