Workshop Purpose: To explore the Potential and Realities of Building A Public Code Commons: Open Source, Section 508, and Beyond. As information tools become ubiquitous and closely connected to the quality of life and prosperity of individual people, individual communities, and individual countries, a more engaged, active role for people, communities, and countries in the creation of these societal tools must emerge. Societal technologies insufficiently flexible to accommodate connection-making activities among all members adversely affect the whole of society. How is the peer production model of open source contributing to a new societal organization form? How can citizens at risk become co-designers of societal communication networks?
9:30 AM Coffee
9:55 AM Welcome - Susan Turnbull, Sr. Program Advisor, GSA and George Brett, Chief Information Architect, End-to-End Performance, Internet2
10:00 AM Earth’s 911: Building Blocks for a Public Code Commons Over the Past Decade: Principles of Chaordic Organizations and Open Source, Chris Warner, President, http://www.earth911.org
10:40 AM Section 508 Overview, Craig Holcomb, National Security Agency
11:20 AM Open Source and Section 508: Introduction to GNOME Accessibility Framework, Marc Mulcahy, GNOME Team, Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/gnome/siteindex.html
12:00 PM GNOME: Building Blocks for Peer Production Networks, Nat Friedman, one of the founders of GNOME http://www.GNOME.org
12:40 PM Who is Here? Who is Missing from this Dialogue?
1:00 PM Lunch/Networking (bring your own bag lunch or RSVP for sandwich & beverage $8.00 cost/person)
2:00 PM Open Source, Section 508, and Beyond: What Works Today, Janina Sajka, Director, Technology Research & Development, American Foundation for the Blind http://www.afb.org
2:40 PM Open Source and Section 508, Jeremy Hogan, Community Relations Manager, Red Hat http://www.redhat.com
3:20 PM The Mozilla Project, Frank Hecker, Mozilla.org http://www.mozilla.org
4:00 PM Adjournment -Workshop presentations, resources, and member information are at: http://ioa-qpnet-co.gsa.gov/UA-Exp and http://people.internet2.edu/~ghb/coexp