[CAVO] A host for an open source election system project

[Patrick Masson]

OK, didn't mean to imply a value proposition, just thinking of other
possible homes for the project.

All the best,
Patrick

On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 09:07 -0800, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
> Patrick, while I respect Software Freedom Conservancy for its work, we
> couldn't find a more politically charged organization to scare
> adopters about such software. SFC is into license enforcement more
> than software development. Open source election systems have to be
> trusted, not forced by licensors. 
> 
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> My support for GPLv3 for this open source software has also to do with
> trust. I believe it is essential that the majority of the worldwide
> open source development community also know that their election
> software will always be free. They trust GPLv3 for that more than I
> personally do, but that's good enough incentive for me to support that
> license for this software.
> 
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> 
> /Larry
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> From: Patrick Masson [mailto:masson at opensource.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:52 AM
> To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com
> Cc: 'CAVO' <cavo at opensource.org>; tonyw at opensource.org;
> chris.jerdonek at sfgov.org; kcopenhaver at choate.com
> Subject: Re: A host for an open source election system project
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> Larry,
> 
> Knowing your interest in GPL projects, I was also thinking you might
> reach out to the Software Freedom Conservancy as well
> <https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/>.
> 
> Best,
> Patrick
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 08:43 -0800, Lawrence Rosen wrote: 
> 
> 
>         Patrick Masson of OSI has suggested that CAVO and San
>         Francisco and the other stakeholders in an open source
>         election system consider affiliating with a non-profit
>         organization that can run software projects like ours. A
>         trusted development and governance community needs to provide
>         guidance around starting an open source project and creating
>         an authentic community of practice and options.
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>         
>         Linux Foundation was specifically mentioned as an appropriate
>         host, but there are also others.
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>         Please share your comments and suggestions about this. With
>         your permission, the OSI board and the San Francisco leaders
>         and the rest of us at CAVO can start to approach Linux
>         Foundation and others about hosting open source election
>         systems.
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>          
>         
>         /Larry
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>          
>         
>         Lawrence Rosen
>         
>         Rosenlaw & Einschlag (www.rosenlaw.com) 
>         
>         3001 King Ranch Rd., Ukiah, CA 95482
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>         Cell: 707-478-8932 
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