<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Larry,</div><div><br></div><div>Understood. However - private email is that - unless the person so indicates that you may distribute their correspondence.</div><div><br></div><div>I certainly take affront when someone sends me an obviously targeted email and then Cc:'s a public mailing list - or the reverse - what was clearly a private note for someone's personal edification - then being forwarded publicly.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Everyone can use their judgement as to what is appropriate.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Having said that - I get the overall point - this is a collaboration service - and the more we share information - the better in terms of facilitating the overall work and achieving the broader objectives.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [CAVO] Open Source for use in public elections<br>
From: "Lawrence Rosen" <<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>><br>
Date: Wed, April 15, 2015 11:46 am<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:cavo@opensource.org">cavo@opensource.org</a>><br>
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</style><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">[I'm moving this email to cavo@]<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">David Webber wrote:<br>> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Clearly when dealing with external entities - it is certainly not good business practice to Cc: a mailing list!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Not so clearly.... Several states including California have open meetings laws relating to public government-related activities. Elections and voting systems are certainly that!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I'm sensitive to "political sensitivity" only in the context of open source software development. And quite frankly, having listened to some of these CAVO discussions over the past several months, it was the private parts that burned me up the most as being unnecessarily confidential and thus useless to the rest of us!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Let's learn to be open! Or at least, let's talk to each other openly about what it really means to be open source. That's why I'm here. What are you here for?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">/Larry<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div><hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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