Our time of meeting at the Sun Offices is coming to an end...

Our April meeting will be our last at the Sun Offices. We need to find a new place and need help from the members. Please post ideas to the discuss mailing list or email the newsite coordinator, Ralph Green.

The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include:

presentations from industry experts,
small break-out sessions for special interest groups,
and free pizza!

If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

Please note The elevators won't come up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! Meetings now start at 6:30 PM

Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010 -- 6:30 PM -- [Note new earlier start time]

Main Presentation

Topic(s): `Computers in Elections -- `How to Prevent Fraud?

Speaker(s): Kurt Hyde

Backgrounder: by Ralph Green
Electronic voting machines offer some compelling advantages. They can be more easy to use for people with disabilities. They allow quick counting of votes and are potentially very reliable. But, they also offer new opportunities for stealing and miscounting of the vote. If the only thing a voter does is press on a screen and a register is incremented in memory, how does the voter know their vote was cast as they wished? A proper voting system will reflect the votes of the voter accurately, and will also be transparent so the voter has faith in that accuracy.

Kurt Hyde believes he is the earliest known advocate for a paper trail in electronic voting equipment and I have not found any earlier advocates. He spoke about the need for what he called a "manually recount-able paper ballot", known better today as a Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballot, at a symposium that was held on the campus of Boston University on August 14th and 15th, 1986. This contributed to the nation's first paper trail law being passed in New Hampshire in 1994.

Kurt has since expanded his studies in elections to all aspects of elections. Kurt has written numerous magazine articles dealing with all aspects of election fraud as well speaking before numerous audiences.

Kurt was a recent candidate for public office, so I expect his research has not been purely academic. He is a former member of DFWUUG.

If you want to read more about this issue, I recommend the articles by Ed Felten on http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

Please note You can't get up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! Meetings now start at 6:30 PM

Meeting Main Presentation Schedule

The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program.

Career SIG

Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM

Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting.

Speaker: Alvin Goats

Programmers SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Jeff Rush

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	Content Last Modified on March 08, 2010, at 05:37 AM CST Our time of meeting at the Sun Offices is coming to an end... Our April meeting will be our last at the Sun Offices. We need to find a new place and need help from the members. Please post ideas to the *discuss* mailing list or email the newsite coordinator, Ralph Green. The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include: presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting! Please note The elevators won't come up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! Meetings now start at 6:30 PM We have a chatroom! *#dfwuug* on server *irc.freenode.net* Want to talk about Unix 24/7? Have a quick question about Linux? How to Get Started with Internet-Relay-Chat (IRC) Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010 -- 6:30 PM -- [Note new earlier start time] Main Presentation Topic(s): `Computers in Elections -- `How to Prevent Fraud? Speaker(s): Kurt Hyde Backgrounder: by Ralph Green Electronic voting machines offer some compelling advantages. They can be more easy to use for people with disabilities. They allow quick counting of votes and are potentially very reliable. But, they also offer new opportunities for stealing and miscounting of the vote. If the only thing a voter does is press on a screen and a register is incremented in memory, how does the voter know their vote was cast as they wished? A proper voting system will reflect the votes of the voter accurately, and will also be transparent so the voter has faith in that accuracy. Kurt Hyde believes he is the earliest known advocate for a paper trail in electronic voting equipment and I have not found any earlier advocates. He spoke about the need for what he called a "manually recount-able paper ballot", known better today as a Voter-Verifiable Paper Ballot, at a symposium that was held on the campus of Boston University on August 14th and 15th, 1986. This contributed to the nation's first paper trail law being passed in New Hampshire in 1994. Kurt has since expanded his studies in elections to all aspects of elections. Kurt has written numerous magazine articles dealing with all aspects of election fraud as well speaking before numerous audiences. Kurt was a recent candidate for public office, so I expect his research has not been purely academic. He is a former member of DFWUUG. If you want to read more about this issue, I recommend the articles by Ed Felten on http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/ Normal Meeting Location Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge. Please note You can't get up to the 7th floor after 7 pm, beginning March, 2010. Get to the meeting before then! Meetings now start at 6:30 PM Meeting Main Presentation Schedule The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings, except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program. Career SIG Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting. Speaker: Alvin Goats Programmers SIG Topic: TBD Speaker: Jeff Rush
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