Tech in Government

Friday, October 13th, 2006

The Tuttle IT fiasco reminded of my “Intro to IT” professor who, showing the class how to check email, complained that he was getting 500+ spams per day –despite the fact that he kept clicking to “opt-out” of the mailings. I sat there in complete disbelief as he “opted-out” of several blatant spams on the [...]

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Pete Ashdown on Open Source Government

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Pete Ashdown (founder of Xmission and candidate for US Senate) will address UVLUG this Saturday:
Pete will present “Democracy 2.0: Open Source Government,” showing how the Federal Government can learn from the open source movement. He will talk about how the government can stop ignoring technology and use it to better the lives of all Americans. [...]

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