[gui-talk] Fwd: FYI: Announcing Open Developer Day at the FCC

[Baracco, Andrew W]

As one who is involved in legislative advocacy, I have followed the
progress of this new law, and its predecessor bills for many years, and
have often heard and read comments to the effect that this kind of
legislation is not necessary, and things would have happened in time
without the law.  I think that the course of events in the near future
will prove those nay Sayers wrong.  Without this law, I do not think
that we would have seen these developments in our lifetimes.

Andy


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Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 6:13 PM
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Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd: FYI: Announcing Open Developer Day at the FCC


>
> From the web page
>
>http://reboot.fcc.gov/blog?entryId=927569
>
>Announcing Open Developer Day at the FCC
>October 28th, 2010 by Greg Elin - Chief Data Officer
>
>On Monday, November 8, 2010, the Federal Communications Commission 
>will sponsor an "Open Developer Day" event at FCC Headquarters in 
>Washington, DC to promote collaboration between web developers in 
>the public and private sectors.
>
>The goal of Open Developer Day is to further innovation in 
>accessible technologies and foster citizen participation in open
government.
>
>Open Developer Day will be a public, single-day event that 
>prioritizes accessibility goals, though other web solutions are also 
>of interest. The event will feature guest engineers from the Yahoo! 
>Developer Network and Yahoo!s Accessibility teamLab and will have a 
>component addressing the requirements and opportunities in the new 
>"Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act."
>
>Think of Open Developer Day as a digital barn raising where software 
>developers learn new tools and volunteer their skills to prototype 
>and build new web applications together.
>
>Engineers from the Yahoo! Accessibility team Lab and Yahoo! 
>Developer Network will be providing technical instruction for some 
>of their technologies that support working with web-based 
>information and their ongoing work in accessibility.
>
>A priority area is the development of a web application that will 
>serve as a clearing-house of information on accessible information 
>and communication technologies (ICT). The FCC is mandated to create 
>this clearinghouse by a new law called the "Twenty-First Century 
>Communications and Video Accessibility Act," which President Obama 
>signed on October 8, 2010. The clearinghouse is intended to make it 
>as easy as possible for people with disabilities, families, and 
>support professionals to find information about accessible
technologies.
>
>The FCC will also be interested in other innovative ways that public 
>APIs may be used to add value to the fcc.gov and broadband.gov web 
>sites. The choice of intellectual property licensing is being left 
>to each developer for code contributions made.
>
>Any developer may participate, without charge. Each participant is 
>expected to bring his or her own laptop computer, and to comply with 
>security guidelines.
>
>To RSVP for Open Developer Day, click here
(mailto:mikelle.morra at fcc.gov).
>
>We hope to see you soon!
>

                         David Andrews:  dandrews at visi.com
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