Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections
Hi Ben, Le lundi 12 mars 2007, à 11:55, Ben Adida a écrit : Hi all, My name is Ben Adida, I'm a postdoc fellow at Harvard working on crypto and public policy. I spend a bunch of my time on voting systems, in particular those that let you or anyone audit the process from end to end. If you haven't encountered these systems before, they're significantly more powerful than your average voting system, with or without a paper trail. I'm currently implementing Helios, a voting system with this open-audit property. Last week, I was on the GNOME MC irc, where I collected requirements for the GNOME election and explained Helios in a bit more detail. If the system is eventually good enough, the goal is to have GNOME and potentially other free software groups use it in elections and referenda. (GNOME MC = GNOME membership committee, for those who were wondering) I've started a publicly accessible and CC-licensed wiki: http://helios.stikipad.com/ I will keep this wiki updated with the full design and, more importantly, pointers to partial demos as they become stable enough. Of course the whole codebase will be free/open-source: I will move it to a public source repository as soon as it's in decent v0.1 shape (2-3 months). Your thoughts/comments/questions/criticisms are welcome, either on the wiki as public comment, or to me personally. Just wondering: on [1], Java is mentioned. Does it mean it'd be required for each voter to have the java plugin? It might be an issue for some people (well, maybe not in the future when java will be totally free). Thanks for working on this, and keep us informed about the progress of your work! Vincent [1] http://helios.stikipad.com/helios/show/Helios+Implementation+Details -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Could GNOME Foundation qualify for a MATC award?
Hi David, Le jeudi 15 mars 2007, à 10:06, David Bolter a écrit : This is just a heads up in case it matters: http://matc.mellon.org/ Interesting. Do you think you could work on a nomination for the GNOME Foundation? Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Could GNOME Foundation qualify for a MATC award?
Hi, Vincent Untz wrote: Le jeudi 15 mars 2007, à 10:06, David Bolter a écrit : This is just a heads up in case it matters: http://matc.mellon.org/ Interesting. Do you think you could work on a nomination for the GNOME Foundation? Last year all the Mellon awards went to university research projects or RD labs. I don't mean to put a dampener on things, but I think the best chance for a realistic report is to find a projects which uses GNOME in their research and is clearly focussed on the Mellon touchstones (education, sciences), and partner with them. Sorry for being a little defeatist... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Could GNOME Foundation qualify for a MATC award?
Hi, On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 21:15 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi David, Le jeudi 15 mars 2007, à 10:06, David Bolter a écrit : This is just a heads up in case it matters: http://matc.mellon.org/ Interesting. Do you think you could work on a nomination for the GNOME Foundation? Short version: GNOME Foundation isn't eligible. Long version: From the FAQ [1]: Can I nominate the Mozilla Foundation (or any other software foundation)? The MATC awards are designed to honor institutions that are not in the business of developing software, which choose to support open source software development using their own resources, not resources provided to them specifically for that purpose. Consequently, all software foundations (e.g., Mozilla) are ineligible because developing software is their core business. For the same reason, MATC awards do not honor institutions for software development that was performed using outside funds intended for that purpose (e.g., an external grant to develop software), or for using funds that were committed in order to receive outside funds (e.g., matching funds). The awards honor institutions that use their own funds--funds that could have been applied to any other institutional need--for the purpose of open source software development. Don [1] http://matc.mellon.org/faq/why-isnt-the-mozilla-foundation-or-any-other-software-foundation-eligible ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. Dear GNOME friends For those of you who would like to host the next GUADEC in 2008 you are hereby invited to write a formal invitation to the board of The GNOME Foundation. The invitation should be send to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Anne Østergaard aoe(at)gnome.org at the latest on May 15th 2007. As the conference is getting bigger and hopefully better and more important every year there is no reason not to tell you that it takes a lot of persons actively involved and committed in the actual planning and a lot of time and spent carrying out the practical work. It is also rewarding and very much fun and you learn a lot in the process. I usually say that when you can take care of a baby and handle a big conference you are pretty much prepared for anything. These things are real and can not be handed virtually. Some practical advice: There are a couple of things that you must take into account when writing your invitation: You must be a group of at least ten persons behind the invitation to take on responsibility. These ten persons each need a lot of helpers.- For this purpose you can involve everybody - they do not all have to be nerds- other skills can often be of great advantage to the team. The conference must take place in the same physical place/ building. You must be many persons very near and in the place/city where the conference is taking place. It is an advantage if there is a strong support from the community: the region, the city, university, huge companies, important organizations and/ or among a very large group of local citizens. The conference will need facilities from Saturday to Thursday. It will be nice to have the facilities from Saturday to Saturday. (The weekend normally used for establishing things and getting rid of jet-lack.- Some activities which involve moving in the sun and fresh air could be helpful here.) The technical infrastructure is crucial to the conference. The hacker room and the conference rooms needs a lot of bandwidth. This is also the case for streaming. One large conference hall for 500 persons. Projectors, beamers and at least 3-4 large conference rooms and many smaller rooms are needed and possibly an exhibition area and/ or hall. A hacker room with pc' s available, and open most of the day and evening is very much appreciated. You will need a lot of sponsors and good press contacts. You must have solutions for housing: Hotels, youth hostels, the living for free program etc. Catering, the Beer Party and cultural activities for a flexible number of persons must be possible as well as affordable lunch meals for all. Assisting in conference planning calls or meetings and taking notes for a long period of time, taking care of registration, accounting, the technique in each conference room and of invited speakers and keynotes- which involves some local transportation etc. and a hospitality scheme. Construction and updating of the website, call for papers, logo competition, printing conference material etc. I am sure I forgot something but if you are able to meet most of the things on this list you are already a real GNOME champion. GUADEC has been hold at universities half of the time but other venue solutions are quite possible. It will be an advantage if you start following the planning list for this years GUADEC 2007 in [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following two links lead you to must read stuff as well as to very useful information: http://live.gnome.org/GuadecPlanningHowTo?highlight=%28guadec%29%7C% 28howto%29 Check list: http://live.gnome.org/GuadecPlanningHowTo/CheckList?highlight=%28guadec% 29%7C%28howto%29 Countries which have close regional collaboration could help each other make a joint invitation to one venue. We would love to see GUADEC have both national and regional spin off effects for the use of GNOME and Free Software. Especially in places where we have not yet so seen so many footprints:) I know that you will need all the time you can get to prepare an invitation so I hope I have inspired you to get started. The GNOME Board hopes to hear from you May 15th or before. Good luck! GNOME greetings Anne ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
quote who=Anne Østergaard Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 I'll footnotes it. - Jeff -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ GNOME. Vorsprung durch Einfachheit. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
quote who=Jeff Waugh quote who=Anne Østergaard Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 I'll footnotes it. Hrm, except it's down right now. Boh! - Jeff -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ Instead you're doing circle jerks with the Care Bears of Censorship. - Siduri on Slashdot ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Regional gatherings ROCK! [Was: GUADEC 2008]
quote who=Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay Anne Østergaard wrote: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ? Yes, but don't let that stop you organising a regional gathering, such as: * Boston Summit (USA) * GNOME.conf.au (Australia) * GUADEC-ES / GUADEMY (Spain) * Forum do GNOME (Brazil) * GNOME Developer Meeting (Chile/Venezuela) * FOSDEM GNOME Room (Belgium) * ... and many more! These are a hugely important part of local and worldwide GNOME culture and community development. Perhaps a GNOME meeting at FOSS.IN would be a good way to kickstart something in India? - Jeff -- Open CeBIT 2007: Sydney, Australia http://www.opencebit.com.au/ If you have any poo, fling it now. - Mason the Chimpanzee, Madagascar ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections
Vincent Untz wrote: Just wondering: on [1], Java is mentioned. Does it mean it'd be required for each voter to have the java plugin? It might be an issue for some people (well, maybe not in the future when java will be totally free). Currently, I am developing this using HTML+Javascript with *some* calls into the JVM for crypto. I may be able to eventually do these in pure Javascript, especially if there's a strong need, though I am hoping that's not necessary... BigNum in Javascript is going to be quite slow. That said, if this continues to be an issue (if Java isn't released under the GPL quickly enough), then definitely keep me posted. -Ben ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Østergaard wrote: Call for invitations to be the host of GUADEC 2008 GUADEC is the yearly GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. Does that automatically exclude those outside EU from sending proposals ? :Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGAgUgXQZpNTcrCzMRAiSpAJ9xk0fSv+cjrYjXMdNAQUMe7X+DVgCggLwA u1BMR2UYThx1RnYeSh7V6Bs= =hCGB -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
