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Last month I pointed out that Washington State had deployed a statewide voter database, well, today, the New York Times reports that the Justice Department gave New York State notice that they might sue the state. It seems that the Legislature has done next to nothing in the last 3 years about complying with H.A.V.A…

I’ll be presenting on our Open Business model and the Drupal Guild at the OpenCMS / DrupalCON in Vacouver. Hope you can make it!

Following on last week’s Drupal Developers Meeting in San Francisco and the presentation about Drupal Guild given by Dan Robinson, a few folks commented on their blogs (http://www.blkmtn.org/node/279 and http://delocalizedham.com/node/50 ). This morning, as I was preparing to head to the gym, looking for a podcast to listen to, I found this interview with Alex…

This morning as I ran my errands I listened to Your Attention Please, the full panel discussion from which some content in the Distributing the Future podcast I blogged about last week came from. The whole panel discussion is about an hour long and includes Steve Gillmor, Glenn Reid, Doreé Duncan Seligmann, David Sifry and…

I just placed an order for some books and cds on Amazon. And I bought some items used and others new. As I was preparing to check out I thought about the following: Buying used is good for the environment: it reduced waste, reuses stuff that people don’t want. Buying used stuff on Amazon is…

I found this podcast, Distributing the Future via dorkbot, I think. Anyway, I listened to the Attention episode yesterday, and it is relevant to us and the way we work, and the work that we do. I think that everyone should listen to this particular episode, and I am hopeful about this podcast as a…

Just another night at DorkBot. I accepted an invitation from a friend of mine to go to this session of DorkBot and it was super cool. I have to say, if you are a bit of a geek, or a dork and miss those science fair days… dorkbot is for you. I was a little…

The meeting is being convened to support communication amongst developers and the small businesses being built on the drupal platform. I am really open to your ideas about what to cover. Please contribute thoughts to the agenda. The event will be held at the CSL office

Washington state has moved to a state wide voter database replacing the current 39 county databases. In part this is to comply with HAVA, but this article points mostly to the anti-fraud benefits like eliminating duplicate registrations, voting by dead people and felons. Perhaps the biggest benefit is that anyone doing voter outreach work in…

Today I am going to begin (again) to work on the Drupal Guild proposal. I’d love folks to take a little time to look at what is on the wiki and let me know if you have anything to add at this point (just edit the wiki if you have access) or send me comments…