[Blindtlk] Fwd: FYI: Announcing Open Developer Day at the FCC

[David Andrews]

>
> From the web page
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>http://reboot.fcc.gov/blog?entryId=927569
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>Announcing Open Developer Day at the FCC
>October 28th, 2010 by Greg Elin - Chief Data Officer
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>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."
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>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.
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>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.
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>Any developer may participate, without charge. Each participant is 
>expected to bring his or her own laptop computer, and to comply with 
>security guidelines.
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>To RSVP for Open Developer Day, click here (mailto:mikelle.morra at fcc.gov).
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>We hope to see you soon!
>

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