Thanks for the mention. While there are some overlaps, Greenhorn Connect is specifically focused on the community as reflected across our blog featuring original content from the founding team as well as local community members and due to ability for the community to add resources and events.

I’d also point you to this week’s calendar, where you’ll find over 40 different events going on in the greater Boston community: http://greenhornconnect.com/events/calendar/2010-W09 Through involving the community, we have built some the most comprehensive resource and events listing for Boston Entrepreneurs.

Thanks,
Jason

I didn’t get a chance to talk to you at Jerry’s retreat, but nice to meet you virtually!

This makes me very happy. Back in the late 80s, I was a consultant on a project where the late (and not at all lamented) Nixdorf was trying to design a voting machine to sell to NYC. I wrote all of the software for the prototype, and had a big hand in the proposal documents. The part that appalled me at the time, and that has continued to frighten me as I’ve watched the whole Diebold scandal over the last few years, was just how little people cared about election security. They generally fail to understand that an electronic voting system makes it easier to hide large-scale fraud.

It seems clear to me that the project you’re attempting is essentially the only safe solution — America needs this badly. The thing I’d like to suggest is that you take a look at the OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child) which has used a similar structure of a small number of paid developers leading a larger open source community to do something socially significant. You can probably learn a lot from that project’s successes and issues. You probably know that Ed McNierney is VP Eng there right now.

Good luck with this!

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Best regards,

Jacques