Interesting news: on 27 February, the New York State Board of Elections unanimously adopted a resolution that would provide for waiver of fees for certification testing of open source software. The official announcement says that the Board may elect to waive fees (that a vendor pays for examination of a voting system) if the vendor meets some specific conditions of proof that the system is open source.
Innovation. Sometimes innovation lies in
process.And that’s what I want to
mention today.And I promise, at the
risk of starting to flow like the Hon. Senator Joe Biden, it’ll be simply a
mention.
Balance. The philosophy of yin-yang teaches among other
things that a struggle of energies provides balance and can even serve as a
flywheel of momentum.In a recent post, I
attempted to present some unique giving
propositions for the OSDV Foundation which were focused – in part – on the
I’ve
written in other postingshow the OSDV Foundation’s focus
makes it distinctive – a focus not primarily on talking, but on making
breakthrough digital voting technology that people can see, touch, and
try.That focus is also the basis of the
