GNU/Linux in the U.S. Government

[Janina Sajka]

Sec. 508 covers all "electronic and information technologies," except 
those directly used for command and control of military ordinance, 
aircraft, etc., and certain other national security systems. It's not only 
applications and operating systems, it's the hardware as well. It's also 
telephone and telecommunication equipment including handsets, switches, 
pbx, routers, etc., etc. It's copiers and printers and fax machines. It's 
all electronic and information technologies as defined by law.
 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" <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)
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> >
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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