Posted in Open Source, Voting System Technology on Jan 6th, 2010
Tim Bray is one of the main people behind XML so he has some serious cred in the world of building and deploying systems. So it with interest (and some palpable butterflies) that a recent missive of his: “Doing it Wrong”.
I don’t know how much of what he says is relevant to what we at [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, TrusttheVote / OSDV on Dec 24th, 2009
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) asked for public comment on the use of the Internet for election-related activities (among other digital democracy related matters). They recently published the responses, including those from OSDV. I’ll let Greg highlight the particularly public-policy-related questions and answers, but I wanted to highlight some aspects of our response that differ [...]
Posted in Election Adminstration Technology, Open Source, Voting System Technology on Oct 24th, 2009
Wired’s Kim Zetter reported on our Hollywood Hill event, in an article titled “Nation’s First Open Source Election Software Released.” I got a few questions about that “First” part, and I thought I’d share a few personal thoughts about it.
First of all, there is certainly plenty of open source software that does election-related stuff, as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2009
Ok, so rumors of my being radio silent for months due to my feeble attempts to restore my software development skills are greatly unbounded. I’ve been crazy busy with outreach to States’ elections officials, as our design and specification work is driven by their domain expertise. In the midst of that, I received a question/comment [...]
Posted in Voting System Technology on Jul 23rd, 2009
There’s a fascinating nugget inside of a fine legal story unfolding in Arizona. I know that not all our readers are thrilled by news of court cases related to election law and election technology, so I’ll summarize the legal story in brief, and then get to the nugget. The Arizona Court of Appeals has [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2009
Thanks to the Alert Reader that pointed me to http://change.org, the "Top Ten Issues" contest (winners to be presented in briefing to the new administration), and the issue about election technology reform at "Move The Country Towards Transparent Election Systems". (Check it out! You might want participate in the poll yourself.)
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2008
Provocative.
That was a term used to describe the name of the Foundation when we began over a year ago. Why?
Well, in part because we’re more – a lot more – than simply a public
open source software project.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2008
Substance.
There is definitely more of that to our first year road-map
activities. And we’ll clarify this
through diagrams soon. In the mean time,
if you are technically adept or a Developer who may be interested in leaving
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 14th, 2008
Mapping. That’s what we’ve been up to –
sort of like Lewis &
Clark –
charting the course of our OSDV expedition. And similar to the trials and tribulations of
The OSDV Foundation is a
pending
501(c)(3) non-profit California public benefit corporation.
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