On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Robert J. Hansen wrote: . . . > For a look at the problems in the University of Iowa student government > elections, take a look at: > > http://cs.uiowa.edu/~rjhansen/UISG.pdf > > After delivering this report to Student Government, their response was > to bury it, never follow up with us, and the next year hired an outside . . . > ObGnuPGRelevance: some of the issues pointed out in the final report > could have been mitigated with GnuPG, although in the end UISG elected > to ignore our recommendations.
Reading that report, I see another GnuPG relevance: the issue of Computer Science being a profession (occasionally debated in IEEE publications (at least a while ago), etc). The characteristics of a "profession" are supposed to include the existence of professional standards and ethics requiring adherence to the standards. Open source may be thought to finess this issue, working in the understanding (hope ?) that including direct feedback from interested community members (given the existence of community communication channels, and ideally including members with professional status or attitudes) may be a substitute for professional standards and ethics. Are there refined answers available to the question, how can someone like "salaried programmers" (p.2) best state a claim that GnuPG could serve as part of a professional solution to the problem? (I hope this isn't too far out of bounds of gnupg-users relevance.) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
