Posted in Commentary, Open Source on Aug 17th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago I presented at OSCON and during the conference had an opportunity to sit down with Mac Slocum, Managing Editor for the O’Reilly Radar. We had about a half an hour conversation, for which we covered ~20 minutes of it on camera. You can find it here if you want to [...]
Posted in Announcements, Commentary, Election Technology Reform, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Jul 23rd, 2010
One of our Executive Directors, Gregory Miller, had the opportunity to attend the O’Reilly Media’s Open Source Conference this week in my home town of Portland, Oregon (his too, in fact). Summer is in full swing here, although no major heat waves so far; we’ve been enjoying cool morning marine layer followed by a pleasant [...]
Posted in Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Jul 6th, 2010
The TrustTheVote Project of the Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation achieved another important milestone two weeks ago this morning, this time with the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics, although not without some controversy. The short of it is, and most important to us, the Foundation has been given the opportunity to [...]
Posted in Commentary, Internet Voting, Open Source, Voting System Technology on Jun 22nd, 2010
Kudos to the Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro for his article “D.C. launches test of open-source online voting” — fine coverage, but with a title that I disagree with in terminology only. I don’t view the D.C. pilot as “online voting” but rather as a test of an additional form of digital transport for return of [...]
Posted in Announcements, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Jun 22nd, 2010
We’re pleased to echo the announcement by the District of Columbia’s Board of Election and Ethics (BOEE) that they will adopt TrustTheVote technology as part of a pilot project to support the delivery and return of overseas ballots. In Washington D.C.’s September primary election, open-source technology from the TrustTheVote Project will be used [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source on May 29th, 2010
The principles of Open Source are spreading like a good contagion…
The Wall Street Journal carried an interesting article on Wednesday in its Technology Journal about GlaxoSmithKline, the drug maker, experimenting with applying “open source” principles in its pharmaceutical R&D efforts. The article is available to subscribers, possibly non-subscribers as well, but in any event, if [...]
Posted in Announcements, Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Apr 16th, 2010
Happy Friday-
Apologies for the apparent radio-silence these past few weeks since returning from the Overseas Voting Summit in Munich. We’ve been very busy: handling 2 elections jurisdiction proposals and another large voter outreach group’s request to adopt portions of our open source elections technology framework, with lots of related work effort.
But today, at the end [...]
Posted in Ballot Design, Commentary, Election Adminstration Technology, Election Technology Reform, MOVE Act, Open Source on Mar 15th, 2010
I am on my way to Munich, as I post this, for the 2010 UOCAVA Summit. The OSDV Foundation is a co-host this year, and we’re coordinating the technology track of this 3-day gathering focused on the issues and opportunities for our overseas voters. This year’s event is arguably the most important UOCAVA (Uniformed and [...]
Posted in Commentary, Open Source, TrusttheVote / OSDV, Voting System Technology on Feb 28th, 2010
Open Source Technology Licensing…
We’ve been promising to respond to the chorus of concerns that we may drift from the standard GPL for our forthcoming elections and voting systems software platform and technology. Finally, we can begin talking about it (mainly because I found a slice of time to do so, and not because of any [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Feb 27th, 2010
A couple of days the New York Times Editorial page commented on Voting Technology in an editorial titled “The Voters Will Pay”. Some bits that interested me (but you should read the whole thing):
“[snip...] If the deal is allowed to go through, it would make it harder for jurisdictions to bargain effectively on price [...]
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