Hold the date! for an introduction to the Trust the Vote! project. OSU's Open Source Lab (OSL) and Portland Open Source Entrepreneurs (POSSE) welcome the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation's founders and exciting project to Oregon.

Discover this imperative "public digital works project" of the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation. The OSDV Foundation is a Silicon Valley based public benefits corporation whose mission is to work to restore trust in how America votes through the design, development, and demonstration of open source digital voting technology.

Join us to learn details about the "TrustTheVote Project," a well funded non-profit effort which has been under the radar for 2 years. The OSDV Foundation is now raising public awareness, and expanding efforts including a planned development center in Portland, Oregon.

Our guests are two executives of the Foundation including its Chief Technology Officer. Their presentation will:

o Introduce the project, its motivation, founding, and development efforts to date;

o Walk through the TrustTheVote technology road map and review major projects underway;

o Discuss development philosophies and approaches including experience-driven design and test-driven agile development;

o Review opportunities for systems architects, software developers, SDQA/test specialists, and user experience designers;

o Cover plans to expand the volunteer developer teams, future opportunities for senior members of technical staff, and opportunities for you to get involved.

Presenters: Gregory Miller, Chief Development Officer E. John Sebes, Chief Technology Officer

Foundation on the web: http://www.osdv.org

POSSE: Open Source Software and Government

Wednesday August 19, 2009 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm OSU Foundation 707 SW Washington St # 500 Portland, Oregon 97205

Please RSVP if you plan to attend. We'll be using the number of people to plan snacks, space, etc. Please also try to arrive prior to 6pm when the building elevator locks and someone will need to leave the meeting to retrieve latecomers.

Deborah Bryant will be leading a discussion about the relationship between government and open source software: benefits, challenges, and what you can do. We'll also have plenty of time for you to hang out and talk to each other on this topic or anything else.

Rough Agenda: 5:30 - 6:00 Networking 6:00 - 6:30 Deborah Bryant 6:30 - 6:45 Introductions 6:40 - 7:30 Networking

This is a monthly meeting of POSSE (Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs) that is open for anyone to attend. POSSE is dedicated to helping businesses in the Portland area and beyond reduce costs, mitigate risk, and make software choice easy by utilizing open source software. POSSE members meet once a month to network with other open source software entrepreneurs, engineers and enthusiasts.

RSVP to bryant-dot-deb-at-gmail-dot-com

Today distributing applications is relatively easy, until you get to the data side of things. This is where the complexity in most applications comes into focus, where does the data go? How do I replicate or synchronize the data? How do or where do I cache data? What’s the geographic issues with data in one place and applications in another? How does the gravity of the data affect my application?

This talk will hone in on key details around implementing a true distributed system across geographically dispersed areas and how to provide the end user a solid synchronized experience while using the application. Examples will be provided with hybrid computing solutions and distributed software solutions including distributed databases, PaaS Deployment packaging and other key technologies.

Tonight at MaptimeStJohns, we will review some compiled leaflet maps using several of the leaflet pluggins. We will go through some live custom examples using humangeo's dvf pluggin, we will use postgis and output geojson, geocsv and topojson to add to our leaflet maps, and also discuss some temporal mapping tools.

Bring your laptop with leaflet installed and a webserver available. Have a server scripting language such as php or python and postgressql/postgis installed. If you don't have a laptop, come anyway and you will be able to see these tools in action, as well as receive any materials handed out at the meetup. Bring a flash drive so you can take a copy of the data home.

LET'S GET TOGETHER AND MAP AT MAPTIMESTJOHNS!