A member of the Open Voting Coalition (OVC, an organization promoting the use of open source software in US elections http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/) will give a keynote speech at an upcoming Red Hat. Red Hat is considering financial support of OVC. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [CASE_OH] FW: All Time Biggest Event for OVC -- May 9th Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 21:23:07 -0400 From: John Burik Reply-To: CASE_OH@yahoogroups.com To: CASE .... ------ Forwarded Message From: OVC Announce Reply-To: OVC Announce Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 08:01:30 -0700 To: Subject: All Time Biggest Event for OVC -- May 9th __ Dear Friends of Open Voting: My keynote address at the Red Hat Summit is less than one week away! Only problem: we need help getting through the next week. Red Hat is paying for food, lodging, etc., but we have other expenses to cover in the mean time. My appearance at Red Hat, assuming I can pull it together, will be very beneficial for our organization and for the Open Voting cause. WHY RED HAT IS IMPORTANT ------------------------------------------------ Just as a reminder of why this is so important for OVC... Eventually, soon, OVC must have corporate sponsorship. The most likely corporations to want to see us succeed are open source champions -- not Microsoft. Red Hat is the biggest. The Red Hat Summit has many corporate sponsors, including IBM, HP, Dell, and so on. They will all be there. They want to hear about the importance of the Open Voting project -- the importance for democracy and also the importance for the open source movement worldwide. More that 1,000 are expected for my keynote. It had better be good. I have a one-hour workshop later the same morning (May 9). I also need to prepare literature for distribution. Here are some links about it: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/?sc_cid=bcm_bnrhpsummit_032 http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=BW&Date=20070124&I http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.aspx?Feed=BW&Date=20070124&I D= 6381498&Symbol=RHT About a year-and-a-half ago, there was an article where Greg DeKoenigsberg of Red Hat was quoted saying they were exploring the possibility of OVC membership. "Recently, Greg DeKoenigsberg, community relations manager of Red Hat, wrote 'our long-term mission is to further the democratization of code and content. Open voting systems are an obvious fit for our mission.' OVC and Red Hat are currently exploring a relationship, which is expected to be finalized soon." http://www.granitebayview.com/article/2005/11/386 I have been working hard to prepare. I just finished a 5,000 word question-and-answer dialog for Red Hat Magazine. They want me to be at a rehearsal the day before, and I've been invited to an executive dinner hosted by Red Hat CEO, Matthew Szulik. I have been working on the presentation. Besides the rehearsal, they want a copy of my presentation for the CD they will distribute to participants. Besides all the Red Hat preparations, I have been busy with legislative efforts. We met with Nancy Pelosi's district director on Tuesday. We've met with him four times over the last year or so, and we are making progress. The re-work of the Holt bill is supposed to be finished today. I know they took some of our suggestions, but we let Pelosi know they have a long way to go. We continue to work on getting our ordinance through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and we continue on getting support for AB 852. The state and county efforts look good. You have saved the day before, and I hope you can do it one more time. If you want to contribute, but want some other method, please contact me right away. PLEASE DONATE NOW ---------------------------------- The PayPal button on our web site http://openvoting.org is probably the quickest and easiest. This is the address for PayPal: donation@openvotingconsortium.org If by check, please send to: Open Voting Consortium 9560 Windrose Lane Granite Bay, CA 95746 Thank you again for helping OVC to continue progressing toward the establishment of OPEN VOTING. 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