Re: Minutes of SoC meeting

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:18 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote:
 I saved logs of both the meetings.
 
 http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/070227-soc.txt
 http://www.gnome.org/~shaunm/070306-soc.txt
 

Embarrassing as it sounds, I have to admit that when I volunteered
to be on the selection committee I was under the impression that I
was volunteering to be a mentor.

However, as I already volunteered I would be happy to help out 
although I will not be present from the 14th-19th of march (this
week) and I would expect that people with a little experience in 
past years of GSoC would be more suitable for the task.

I /would/ like to try to be a mentor this year... so I suppose
it would be at least awkward if I were also on the selection 
committee.

Cheers,
 -Tristan

PS: Sorry for the confusion that I brought to the table.


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an open-audit voting system for GNOME elections

[Ben Adida]

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.

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.


-Ben Adida
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ben.adida.net
http://benlog.com
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