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DATE | 2003-06-30 |
FROM | David Sugar
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SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Back from Trinidad
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Mon Jun 30 17:12:39 2003 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id h5ULCdgd015716 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:12:39 -0400 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h5ULCdAE015715 for hangout-desteny; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:12:39 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from localhost.bayonne.dyndns.org (pool-138-89-65-222.mad.east.verizon.net [138.89.65.222]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id h5ULCcgd015710 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:12:38 -0400 Received: from 192.168.1.104 ([192.168.1.104]) by localhost.bayonne.dyndns.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h5UMDBUC003417 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:13:11 -0400 From: David Sugar To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: [hangout] Back from Trinidad Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:13:44 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306301713.44041.dyfet-at-ostel.com> Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: David Sugar List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Keywords: X-UID: 13083 Status: RO Content-Length: 1458 Lines: 27
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, 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. ____________________________ NYLXS: New Yorker Free Software Users Scene Fair Use - because it's either fair use or useless.... NYLXS is a trademark of NYLXS, Inc
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