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Aleksandar Totic
Programmer, Open Source Digital Voting Foundation

Website | @atotic

Aleks Totic is a member of the OSDV Core Team. He dove into open source and startups at grad school in ‘93 by writing MacMosaic, and has been part of the open source/startups/investments vortex since. He has been interested in modernization of our election system since 2003, had a polling place in his garage, and wrote an online election system for FairVote. He loves having lots of users of his code, and is looking forward to deploying its TrustTheVote system.

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4:30pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009

Bureaucrats, Technocrats and Policy Cats: How the Government is turning to Open Source, and Why.

Business, Emerging Topics, Government, People
Location: Ballroom A1

Deborah Bryant (Deb Bryant & Associates), Bjorn Freeman-Benson (New Relic), Greg Lund-Chaix (Oregon State University Open Source Lab), Clay Johnson (InformationDiet.com), Aleksandar Totic (Open Source Digital Voting Foundation)

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Open source shares critical values with government and public education that make them function in the ideal; meritocracy of ideas, transparency, collaboration. But where is the sweet spot in the confluence of these social, technical, and public policy ideals? And where is the opportunity for the citizen developer to get involved? Read more.

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Aleksandar Totic Programmer, Open Source Digital Voting Foundation