[Qgis-community-team] VPAT Questions on Stackexchange?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi David

Could I suggest that you address this message to the QGIS Users mailing
list? The community-team list is used to organise community related work
such as writing the user manuals, web site etc. You can subscribe to the
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http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user

Regards

Tim

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 1:04 AM, David Saeger <saegeritup at gmail.com> wrote:

> After attending a wonderful conference on Federal Applications of OS Geo
> software I am re motivated to approach completing a VPAT for QGIS. My
> estimation of the importance of doing so was reinforced after hearing some
> knowledgeable friends of the OS Geo community who work in the federal
> environment bemoan how hard it is to get software approved and specifically
> point to the Section 508 compliance/VPAT (or lack therof) as a reason why.
>
> What is a VPAT?:
> Here is a general guidelines for Section 508 compliance:
> http://www.uspto.gov/about/offices/cio/section508/14e.jsp
>
>
> After my first go at this, there are a items VPAT that I am unable to
> answer. It occurs to me that it would be great to use the mechanics of a
> platform like stack-exchange to track the discussion and answers to some of
> the questions posed by the VPAT and as an experiment I posted one of the
> questions I had here:
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53454/qgis-vpat-section-1194-21c
>
> The only thing I have received so far is a comment telling me that the
> userbase of this forum is oriented toward a crowd who may not be suited to
> answering these types of questions. I agree that it is a bit of an unusual
> type of question to ask on that forum. I think however, that utilizing a
> forum like stackexchange to help develop the VPAT would be a great example
> of how OS projects can get these types of regulatory documents filled out
> in a transparent and efficient way. I also think that it is possible that
> some of the questions on the VPAT might benefit from input from a wider
> audience than exists on the QGIS dev list serve.
>
> Any thoughts? Should I just post my questions here? Do any of you have
> suggestions for a better venue? Any of y'all want to take a crack at the
> item I listed on stackexchange?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -David
>
>
>
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