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7	7	Prior to serving with the PSF, I was a Director and CTO of the Open Voting Consortium, a group devoted to promoting open source~-~-or at least inspectable source~-~-in voting systems, as well as to assuring verifiability, anonymity, and fraud resistance by use of printed ballots (i.e. printed with assistance of computer interfaces, but verifiable visually on paper, or through use of independent open source systems for blind voters). In that role, I co-authored a number of academic papers about the system design, including the principles of open source that are essential for verifiability, security, and transparency. I even wrote "yet another license" for the OVC that resolved some conflicting demands of interested participants (although ultimately, and fortunately, most everything was eventually released as GPL or BSD licenses, or to the public domain).
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	9	+As a footnote, I also designed the security protocol for the E-Vote software used in the OSI and PSF elections (coded by my colleague Massimo di Pierro though, primarily), to allow for anonymity, verifiability, and integrity—in particular, against the threat model requirement that "even tampering by a corrupted web server or malicious election administrator can be detected by voters."
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9	9	In order to become better informed about copyright issues regarding open source~-~-and the legal questions generally~-~-I have currently been admitted to and have started the wonderful edX/Harvard course CopyrightX. This is, in essence, a Harvard Law course that is being made freely available to a limited, but worldwide, group of students who will actively participate in weekly live-streaming discussions (as well as the usual lectures, readings, etc. associated with a course). My hope is that this will enable me to participate more meaningfully in open source advocacy.