The TrustTheVote Project issued its first formal “Call For Participation” (”CFP”) to its Stakeholder Community last evening, and five elections jurisdiction have already indicated interest.
The CFP is inviting collaboration from elections jurisdictions all over the country who need to determine how to comply with the mandates of the new federal MOVE Act — particularly the [...]
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Posted in Announcements on Dec 9th, 2009
Yes, it’s still a work in progress (I guess they remain that, forever.) But recently we’ve done quite a bit of neatening (gardening as they say among some wiki-geeks.) up of the TrustTheVote.org wiki. As we work, we will continue to add most of all we know and think as of a certain point in [...]
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Posted in Announcements on Oct 20th, 2009
Our apologies for a couple days of blog-silence … we’re gearing up for great event tomorrow in L.A., with the Hollywood Hill, Wired, RockTheVote, and four great speakers: Debra Bowen, Mitch Kapor, Heather Smith, and Dean Logan. More info at: http://hhill.org/osdv and more news to follow.
– EJS
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Posted in Announcements on Jul 28th, 2009
While in Minneapolis this month for the National Civic Summit, the TrustTheVote Project had a fabulous opportunity to reveal our new look. With the help of our friends at Dubberly Design Office in San Francisco, we advanced from being rather invisible to sporting our new red, white, and blue look with pride.
In addition to our [...]
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Posted in Announcements on Jul 21st, 2009
The OSDV team had a wonderful time in beautiful, but construction-heavy downtown Minneapolis, MN. The TrustTheVote Project was an active participant at the National Civic Summit. Spanning July 15th through the 17th, the two-day conference was free and open to the public.
The Summit asked participants, “How can we increase civic imagination and capacity to solve [...]
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Posted in Announcements on Jun 17th, 2009
Our thanks go to our patient readers of the Open Source Digital Voting blog, for a bit of radio silence while we’ve been standing up the TrustTheVote project, and infrastructure for it such as a blog, wiki, source code repository, and project tracker.
What is the TrustTheVote project? In brief, it is all the technology development [...]
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Posted in Announcements on May 8th, 2009
I had been meaning to report on OSDV’s visit to the Golden Gate Ruby Convention, where Greg presented on the TrustTheVote project. But instead TTV developer Chad Wooley has already done a much better than I could do, reporting on GoGaRuCo in his blog. Thank you Chad!
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Posted in Announcements on Jan 20th, 2009
On this important day in history, and inspired by our new President’s call to action, I want to briefly update you, the real stakeholders in our democracy, on our progress. I first want to thank all readers here — from the merely interested, to the ardent supporters of the Foundation — for your interest and passion in how we sustain one of the pillars of our democracy: the process of elections and the means by which we vote.
Today, at the start of a new chapter in our nation’s history, we have some thoughts and announcements.
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Posted in Announcements on Mar 31st, 2008
Good Morning-
I’m blogging live from Silver Spring, MD subway minutes north out of the frenzy that is the epi-center of our federal government, Washington, DC. Today is the start of the Freedom To Connect conference, which is streaming live here today and tomorrow. We’re in a fabulous venue.
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