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