Re: [GNUe]Just back from Trinidad

[Stanley A. Klein]

David -

The person to contact for getting on the agenda is Susan Turnbull.  Her
email is address@hidden

Please let me know if you get on the agenda. 


Stan Klein


At 12:18 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, David Sugar wrote:
>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
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>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
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>> >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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