Re: [GNUe]Just back from Trinidad

[Stanley A. Klein]

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