[ANN] Derailed Meeting - Wed March 28 @6:30pm FR5

[Derailed]

All,

Our March meeting will take place this Wed March 28th @6:30 at
ForestRoom5 in LODO.

On the agenda:

6:30-7:00 - Meet and mingle
7:00-7:45 - TBD
7:45-8:00 - Break and Raffle
8:00-9:00 - Parlez vous HTTP? Federic Jean

See you all in a couple days...

-Fernand

[Wes Morgan]

Fernand,

I've been thinking about doing a presentation on my work with TurboVote.org called something like "Can Rails fix democracy?" It would be partly a demo and overview of our app and what we're trying to accomplish with it. But I've been trying to come up with some other aspect that would be interesting to folks at a DeRailed meeting. Otherwise, it's just, we're doing this thing, and... we have a Rails app. Which doesn't strike me as all that novel.

Maybe I could talk a bit about some of the data challenges we face or solicit feedback from the audience about what are the ways they might like to see the process of voting improved, etc.

What do you think?

Wes

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[Nathan Wright]

Sadly I'll be out of town. Have a good time you all.

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[Charlie]

My main technical question would almost certainly be, "how can you fix democracy securely? You'd probably need to come up with some interesting new security technology".

That was my reaction when I first heard about Spain's Internet Party:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Party

Later I learned that they have indeed created some interesting new technology:

http://www.agoraciudadana.org/

So yeah, I think there is a lot of novel territory there :)

-Charlie

[Mike Howard]

Any interest in the gem I hacked up last week or so? yattr_encrypted

[Wes Morgan]

Thanks for the feedback, Charlie. I'm curious, would security still be your #1 question if I told you that we were *not* working on online voting?

Wes

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[Charlie]

oops, I guess I made a leap based on your description that wasn't warranted. Sorry :)

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[Wes Morgan]

No worries, it's not an uncommon leap to make. :) And online voting is certainly a topic I would address in any presentation I gave of what we *are* doing. OK, this is getting off-topic for the list, so I'll see if I can put something together for a future DeRailed meeting.

Wes

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