<div><div dir="auto">It does. Yes our focus is the actual public office elections. We believe there is a danger of civil unrest if this is not tended to immediately. We have pushed the United States government Toward GPL open source paper ballot systems but Microsoft continues to block progress. The hope is maybe outside USA steps up and stands up against proprietary interests to move forward with a good open source system</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best regards</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Brent</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 6:43 AM JOUBERT Laurent <<a href="mailto:laurent.joubert@modernisation.gouv.fr">laurent.joubert@modernisation.gouv.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The only elections that are considered are “professional” elections for unions and others. Regarding regular elections
the ANSSI and the DINUM discourages the use of electronic voting systems for security reasons.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If you have non important elections the French INRIA organization is working on an interesting project called
<a href="http://www.belenios.org/" target="_blank">http://www.belenios.org/</a> that is open-source, based on the helios open-source software.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hope this helps,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Laurent<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">De :</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Brent Turner [mailto:<a href="mailto:turnerbrentm@gmail.com" target="_blank">turnerbrentm@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Envoyé :</b> dimanche 31 mai 2020 19:18<br>
<b>À :</b> Shimon Shore <<a href="mailto:ShimonS@most.gov.il" target="_blank">ShimonS@most.gov.il</a>><br>
<b>Cc :</b> JOUBERT Laurent <<a href="mailto:laurent.joubert@modernisation.gouv.fr" target="_blank">laurent.joubert@modernisation.gouv.fr</a>>; <a href="mailto:publicpolicy@lists.opensource.org" target="_blank">publicpolicy@lists.opensource.org</a><br>
<b>Objet :</b> Re: [PublicPolicy] Government Open Source Advocates<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Is there any movement toward open source election system software in France ? <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Brent <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:09 AM Shimon Shore <</span><a href="mailto:ShimonS@most.gov.il" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">ShimonS@most.gov.il</span></a><span lang="EN-US">> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Hello Laurent,</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Very impressive. Thank you very much for all the great links. I encourage everyone to browse them.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">I would love to hear more about
</span><a href="https://github.com/dinsic-pim" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://github.com/dinsic-pim</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">. How did it start? How did it grow? Who contributes to the project?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Regards,</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Shimon</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Publicpolicy <</span><a href="mailto:publicpolicy-bounces@lists.opensource.org" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">publicpolicy-bounces@lists.opensource.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US">>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>JOUBERT Laurent<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 27, 2020 9:23 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Dear Patrick,</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Thank you very much for creating the list. Shimon, thank you very much for your message.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">I work for the French government at the DINUM (direction interministérielle du numérique,
</span><a href="https://numerique.gouv.fr" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://numerique.gouv.fr</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> inter-agency digital services).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Regarding open-source specifically, I would like to point out our following initiatives:</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">The open-source contribution policy, developed through the open-government partnership with many other countries :
</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">o</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1f497d">
</span><a href="https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/publications/politique-logiciel-libre/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/publications/politique-logiciel-libre/</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> that officially
delegates the authority to joint FSF and OSI for open-source licenses in the perimeter.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">o</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1f497d">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">In English: </span><a href="https://smex-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fdisic.github.io%2fpolitique%2dde%2dcontribution%2dopen%2dsource%2fintroduction.en&umid=0b11e99d-a9ee-4060-a423-258ee7bd16d1&auth=0552f576ef9cbf8536bffd6744e6f7ca40c5738b-fe8bc689924abc86b7808572cf6cbda8b1b3cee2" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://disic.github.io/politique-de-contribution-open-source/introduction.en</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">o</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1f497d">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">And the link on github if you would like to copy / contribute :
</span><a href="https://github.com/disic/politique-de-contribution-open-source" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://github.com/disic/politique-de-contribution-open-source</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d">
</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">The open-source code we develop: </span>
<a href="https://code.etalab.gouv.fr/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://code.etalab.gouv.fr/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#1f497d">o</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#1f497d">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">With a partnership with the Software Heritage initiative :
</span><a href="https://www.softwareheritage.org/?lang=en" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.softwareheritage.org/?lang=en</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d">
</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Open-source software catalog recommended by the French administration:
</span><a href="https://sill.etalab.gouv.fr/fr/software" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://sill.etalab.gouv.fr/fr/software</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d">
</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Our internal incubator that develops exclusively open-source software :
</span><a href="https://beta.gouv.fr/startups/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://beta.gouv.fr/startups/</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d">
</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">The #BlueHats community where we try to gather civil servants, NGO, IGO and private companies working on public interest open-source software (only in French)</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">There is one project in particular that I would like to share regarding secure instant messaging based on RIOT.im / Matrix for which we believe there could be a strong interest for international cooperation: </span><a href="https://github.com/dinsic-pim" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://github.com/dinsic-pim</span></a><span style="color:#1f497d">
</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Lastly we were also in charge of elaborating the digital republic law that encourages open-source software and clearly lists source code
as an “administrative document” so that it can be officially released publicly under existing open-date laws.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d">Please feel free to contact me directly at +33 6 701 701 78 if you have any questions. It would be a pleasure to identify common initiatives
we could work on, or work on common difficulties we could face.</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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