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LinuxWorld: Geeks and Grannies
This year, for the first time, the Raging Grannies joined in the annual celebration of open source culture at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.
They were on hand to sing and show conventioneers how open source code can be used to deliver electronic voting systems from the hands of corporations to the view of public scrutiny.
They were on hand to sing and show conventioneers how open source code can be used to deliver electronic voting systems from the hands of corporations to the view of public scrutiny.
Open source culture is the creative practice of appropriation and free sharing of found and created content. It features innovators shaping the future of new technology. LinuxWorld is the largest single gathering of people deploying open source solutions. This year geeks and nerds from around the world were joined in the LinuxWorld exhibition hall by members of the Raging Grannies Action League of the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Raging Grannies were outraged by the shenanigans that threw our country's leadership to the Republicans in the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004. They have teamed up with Open Voting Consortium in lobbying against proprietary voting machines. The Grannies helped demonstrate a new, easy to use (even for Grannies!) voting machine that uses open source software. Its workings are entirely transparent, unlike some of the electronic voting machines recently decertified by the state of California due to security problems.
Not everyone at LinuxWorld is a true aficionado of open source culture. Because wherever there is money to be made, money grubbers abound. LinuxWorld's exhibitions included, amongst other things, the largest hard-drive in the world, in actuality a mechanical bull in the shape of, you guessed it, a hard-drive with a company logo emblazoned.
The Raging Grannies wore their signature hats and buttons, one of which said, "Bad Capitalist, No Martini".
The Raging Grannies were outraged by the shenanigans that threw our country's leadership to the Republicans in the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004. They have teamed up with Open Voting Consortium in lobbying against proprietary voting machines. The Grannies helped demonstrate a new, easy to use (even for Grannies!) voting machine that uses open source software. Its workings are entirely transparent, unlike some of the electronic voting machines recently decertified by the state of California due to security problems.
Not everyone at LinuxWorld is a true aficionado of open source culture. Because wherever there is money to be made, money grubbers abound. LinuxWorld's exhibitions included, amongst other things, the largest hard-drive in the world, in actuality a mechanical bull in the shape of, you guessed it, a hard-drive with a company logo emblazoned.
The Raging Grannies wore their signature hats and buttons, one of which said, "Bad Capitalist, No Martini".
For more information:
http://www.openvotingconsortium.org
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