GNU/Linux in the U.S. Government

[Alex Snow]

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" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
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 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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> --
>
> 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
> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> http://www.openebook.org
>
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