[Tfug] New guy - looking for local computer scientist who is "open source friendly"

[Jim March]

Hi all,

New guy on board, Jim March.  I've personally made the jump off the Windows
boat, first to Ubuntu Dapper, then Edgy, then found that to be just a hair
too "edgy" and went OpenSuse 10.2.  This on a laptop :).

I am also involved in polical activism related to voting machines.  I'm a
member of the board of directors of Black Box Voting (blackboxvoting.org)
and am well known in election integrity circles.

I'm consulting on a public records lawsuit brewing here in Pima County in
which the county elections office is trying to withhold elections data -
primarily the main database files used in our Diebold installation.  They
are literally citing the need for "security by obscurity" and we're going to
need to break that down...possibly to the point of demanding access to the
source code for, at minimum, the central tabulator project.  Which in turn
was certified by a test lab that was just reported as having been
de-credentialed by the Federal Election Assistance Commission for doing a
ghastly job at, you guessed it, voting system certification.

Sigh.

Anyways.  Anybody who understands "security by transparancy", is good at
explaining it AND has a comp. sci. degree, sing out.  We need to talk :).

Jim