Re: [GNUe]Just back from Trinidad

[David Sugar]

This is one of those remarkable stories where two different groups of people 
thought about doing something very similar, and in roughly the same timeframe 
:).  I am actually doing a joint presentation with Janinna at the LSM next 
week, and at that point we will sort through how GNU Alexandria relates to 
the AFB's bayonne daisy reader and how all these things will be done in a 
more uniform manner going forward.  Actually, I would like to come to DC to 
do a presentation there sometime this summer.

David

On Wednesday 02 July 2003 01:28 am, Stanley A. Klein wrote:
> At 07:14 AM 7/1/2003 -0400, David Sugar <address@hidden> wrote:
> >Incidently, I have just returned from speaking at the FLOS conference in
> >Trinidad.  For those who may have missed this recent trip, I was invited
> > to Trinidad to speak about GNU Alexandria
> >(http://www.gnu.org/software/alexandria/lsm2003/index.html), which
> > basically applies GNU Bayonne as one means to deliver e-government
> > services for the blind.
> >
> >I also had some very useful discussions with their National Library and
> >"Information System" Authority (NALIS) about the potential for deploying
>
> free
>
> >software to enable accessibility for the blind, both in terms of GNU
> >Alexandria, and in regard to setting up special pc's at all their branches
> >using Blinux and similar "Linux for the Blind" distributions and tools.  I
> >have the impression that the leadership in "NALIS" do understand the
> > mission of their library system is to provide access to the largest
> > ammount of material to the broadest possible population on an equal
> > basis.  In addition to the possibility of doing a GNU Alexandria pilot
> > program in Trinidad at some point in the future, we may look at
> > replicating such services through UNESCO to other similarly positioned
> > nations in the world.
> >
> >I think Robin Miller has an overall excellant summation of this conference
>
> on
>
> >newsforge.  I think there is more about it on the LinuxJournal site as
> > well.
>
> David -
>
> I have been attending the Collaborative Expedition Workshop, a monthly
> series sponsored by GSA and the Federal CIO Council and held at the
> National Science Foundation conference center, that brings government,
> industry, consultants, and others together to explore open standards and
> free/open source software in e-government.
>
> At a recent meeting, Janina Sajka (of the National Federation for the
> Blind) presented the status of digital talking books for the blind and the
> application of the technology to e-government.  She talked about
> integration of a Daisy parser with Bayonne.  IIRC, Daisy is an XML-related
> standard for integrating talking books.
>
> Is that the same as GNU Alexandria?  If not, can you sort out the projects
> for me?
>
>
> Stan Klein
>
>
>
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