Gentle Readers:
This is a long article/posting. Under any other circumstance it would be just too long.
There has been much written regarding the public evaluation and testing of the District of Columbia’s Overseas “Digital Vote-by-Mail” Service (the D.C.’s label). And there has been an equal amount of comment and speculation about technology supplied to the District [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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