GNU/Linux in the U.S. Government

[Thomas Ward]

Yeah, that happens alot more than you think. Ever since MS marketed the
graphical user interface on the world most people think if the gui is not
accessible they think neither is the os.
Not being able to see the forest for the trees.

----- Original Message -----
From: <jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: GNU/Linux in the U.S. Government


> Hi Janina,
> No, they haven't done anything with Gnome and besides AWIPS runs
> Intranet.  The problem for me is the inability to manipulate weather
> data so I can test my programs.  Also there is an ongoing discussion
> about it not being Section 508 compatible.  Which of course it is not.
> The NOAA Section 508 coordinator was talking about linux not being 508
> compatible and I was trying to disabuse that notion real fast!
> As everybody reading this list knows, the problem is XWINDOWS not linux.
> Since she is primarily a WINDOWS user, I'm not sure she knew the
> difference.
>
>      Jim
>  On
> Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> > 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 at 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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