Open Source and Sec. 508 -- An Invitation to Attend

[Janina Sajka]

You are cordially invited to attend the following event:


From: Susan Turnbull <susan.turnbull at GSA.GOV>

Greetings!
Please join us for the next Collaboration Expedition Workshop  on Tuesday,
June 18, 2002 from 9:30 AM - 4 PM at NSF.    We'll  explore the potential
and realities for building a public code commons.  How are Chaordic
Organizations, Open Source, and Section 508, catalysts for multi-sector,
Community of Practice networks?  The full agenda is below.   Previous
workshop notes and resources are at http://ioa-qpnet-co.gsa.gov/Ua-Exp

Please RSVP by mailto:susan.turnbull at gsa.gov (or 202-501-6214) to ensure
entry into the building and to order a lunch, if desired.
There is no cost to attend, but include in your RSVP that you would like a
lunch ordered for you @$8.00 (sandwich and beverage) or bring a bag lunch.
Visitor badge procedures and directions are at the bottom of this message

Regards,
Susan Turnbull
Senior Program Advisor, Next Generation Strategies, OGP-GSA

                 UA Collaboration Expedition Workshop #14
                               June 18, 2002
                       National Science Foundation,
             Stafford II Building, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Room 555

Workshop Purpose: To explore the Potential and Realities of Building A
Public Code Commons: Open Source, Section 508, and Beyond.  As information
tools become ubiquitous and closely connected to the quality of life and
prosperity of individual people, individual communities, and individual
countries, a more engaged, active role for people, communities, and
countries in the creation of these societal tools must emerge.  Societal
technologies insufficiently flexible to accommodate connection-making
activities among all members adversely affect the whole of society.  How is
the peer production model of open source contributing to a new societal
organization form?  How can citizens at risk become co-designers of
societal communication networks?

  9:30 AM Coffee

  9:55 AM      Welcome  - Susan Turnbull, Sr. Program Advisor, GSA and
          George Brett, Chief Information Architect, End-to-End
          Performance, Internet2

10:00 AM  Earth's 911: Building Blocks for a Public Code Commons Over the
          Past Decade: Principles of Chaordic Organizations and Open Source
          , Chris Warner, President, www.earth911.org

10:40 AM  Section 508 Overview, Craig Holcomb, Technical Director, National
          Security Agency

11:20 AM  Open Source and Section 508: Introduction to GNOME Accessibility
          Framework, Mark Mulcahy, GNOME Accessibility Project, Sun
          Microsystems, Inc.

12:00 PM  GNOME: Building Blocks for Peer Production Networks, Nat
          Friedman, one of the founders of GNOME

12:40 PM  Who is Here?  Who is Missing from this Dialogue?

  1:00 PM Lunch/Networking (bring your own bag lunch or RSVP for sandwich &
          beverage $8.00 cost/person)

 2:00 PM  Open Source, Section 508, and Beyond: What Works Today, Janina
          Sajka, Director, Technology Research & Development, American
          Foundation for the Blind

2:40 PM   Open Source and Section 508, Jeremy Hogan, Community Relations
          Manager, Red Hat

 3:20 PM       The Mozilla Project, Frank Hecker, Mozilla.org

 4:00 PM  Adjournment

Visitor  badge and entry procedures:
1. Go to main NSF bldg. at 4201 Wilson Blvd. (Stafford I Building). Enter
around the corner at the NSF visitor entrance at N. Stuart and Ninth Sts.
After  receiving visitor badge, go to4121 Wilson Blvd. (Stafford II
Building), Fifth floor, Room 555
Traveling by --
2. Car: Parking lot below the Stafford II building,  entrance on Wilson
Blvd.
3. Subway: Ballston metro station - exit to right  along N. Stuart.  Walk
one block to main NSF entrance at N. Stuart and Ninth  Sts, Ballston, VA.

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
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