On Friday 7/17 there will be a presentation: Towards Critical Democracy Infrastructure: The TrustTheVote Project Gregory Miller and John Sebe (OSDV founders / principals) Fri July 17th, 11:00 a.m.at the National Civic Summit Mpls Hilton, 1001 Marquette Ave Mpls This event is free and open to the public. The Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) addresses a serious problem in voting technology: the lack of technical guidelines and specifications for determining truly high assurance, high veracity voting devices. The presenation is at THE CONNECTION at the National Civic Summit being held in Mpls July 15-17, 2009 More information http://site.nationalcivicsummit.com/ More information about OSDV: http://www.osdv.org Many of the nation's leading thinkers and doers in citizenship and civic engagement are gathering in Minneapolis for the National Civic Summit July 15th - 17th. Over 100 nonpartisan organizations will showcase their ideas, approaches and tools through exhibits and workshops at the Minneapolis Hilton Hotel. Current agenda of speakers, topics and schedules (.PDF file) : http://site.nationalcivicsummit.com/uploads/ National_Civic_Summit-_The_Connection_Presenters.pdf Fred -- Jun 22: Robert Reich's Rx for real health care reform http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/06/20/healthcare/print.html Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Communications for Justice -- Free, superior listserv's w/o ads: http://justcomm.org My Link Pg: http://fholson.cohousing.org 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm CST/CDT) Email: fholson at cohousing.org -- ubuntu-us-mn mailing list ubuntu-us-mn at lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-mn