<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Larry,</div><div><br></div><div>For associations and public entity board voting there are already open source solutions available.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The most used one is developed by guy in the UK.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://OASIS-open.org">OASIS-open.org</a> uses it for example.</div><div><br></div><div>David<br></div><div><br><br></div>
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Subject: [CAVO] Online voting<br>
From: "Lawrence Rosen" <<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>><br>
Date: Fri, October 16, 2015 2:37 pm<br>
To: "'CAVO'" <<a href="mailto:cavo@opensource.org">cavo@opensource.org</a>><br>
Cc: Lawrence Rosen <<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>>, 'Jim Jagielski'<br>
<<a href="mailto:jim@jaguNET.com">jim@jaguNET.com</a>>, 'Alan Dechert' <<a href="mailto:dechert@gmail.com">dechert@gmail.com</a>><br>
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</style><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">CAVO developers:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">One of the advantages of open source software is that it is free to be improved by anyone who wants to.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The San Francisco report (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission entitled "Study on Open Source Voting Systems") </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">does not support online voting at this time for reasons relating to security and legal certification. But there is no reason why an open source project can't develop online voting tools for our own uses. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">For example, the Apache membership votes every year for a board of directors and for new members. They already trust email from specific email addresses. They already trust online voting. They and/or we can create an open source online voting module for ourselves regardless of what government agencies are yet prepared to trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">CAVO can support a variety of open source projects.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">/Larry<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">P.S. The existing Apache ALv2 license is also acceptable to government agencies, and it is already compatible with both GPLv3 and MPLv2 licenses! :-)<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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