Issue #16: Vague contact information for Open Voting Foundation associated project

https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/open-voting-foundation/ gives little
clue about ways to reach the Open Voting Foundation. Thanks to the
uncommon last name, I am guessing the project's liaison is the following
Alan Dechert, which claims to work at Open Source Voting Group and at
Open Voting Consortium: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alandechert/
LinkedIn unfortunately does not link to any website for these presumably
related organizations. Please provide more information so the liaison
can be reached reliably.

The Open Voting Foundation associated with SPI somewhere between 2006
and 2009.

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Philippe Cloutier
http://www.philippecloutier.com

* Philippe Cloutier <chealer(at)gmail(dot)com> [2021-03-25 20:49]:
> https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/open-voting-foundation/ gives
> little clue about ways to reach the Open Voting Foundation. Thanks
> to the uncommon last name, I am guessing the project's liaison is
> the following Alan Dechert, which claims to work at Open Source
> Voting Group and at Open Voting Consortium:
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/alandechert/

Yes, I can confirm that this is SPI's contact for Open Voting Foundation.
The email is firstname at openvotingconsortium.org

I asked Alan in 2018 whether Open Voting Foundation on the SPI web
site should be renamed to Open Voting Consortium and he indicated it
shouldn't change for now; maybe this should be revisited now. As
you point out, there's no web site for Open Voting Foundation.

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Martin Michlmayr
Contractor, Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

Le 2021-06-02 à 07:25, Martin Michlmayr a écrit :
> * Philippe Cloutier <chealer(at)gmail(dot)com> [2021-03-25 20:49]:
>> https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/open-voting-foundation/ gives
>> little clue about ways to reach the Open Voting Foundation. Thanks
>> to the uncommon last name, I am guessing the project's liaison is
>> the following Alan Dechert, which claims to work at Open Source
>> Voting Group and at Open Voting Consortium:
>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/alandechert/
> Yes, I can confirm that this is SPI's contact for Open Voting Foundation.
> The email is firstname at openvotingconsortium.org
>
> I asked Alan in 2018 whether Open Voting Foundation on the SPI web
> site should be renamed to Open Voting Consortium and he indicated it
> shouldn't change for now; maybe this should be revisited now. As
> you point out, there's no web site for Open Voting Foundation.

Many thanks once again Dr Michlmayr,

I requested my LinkedIn account to be connected with Alan Dechert's on
2021-06-03, with the following explanatory note:

> Greetings M. Dechert,
> I am curious about the Open Voting Foundation, which I understand has
> yourself as its SPI liaison. Would you be able to provide an email
> address which can be shared with SPI members to contact either the
> Open Voting Foundation or you individually?

I unfortunately still haven't heard back and my request remains pending
a month later.

The Open Voting Foundation has a very earlywebsite: https://openvotingconsortium.org/about/

That website hasn't progressed in the last month.

SPI's latest annual report contains the following, which is the latest
published update from the Open Voting Foundation:

> 5.3.15  Open Voting
> We are working on ensuring support for open source voting in the
> California state budget, to be finalizedin the coming months. We’re
> not waiting for this, but leap-frogging to our international campaign
> for opensource voting.
> Submitted by Alan Dechert

If SPI wishes to remain associated with the Open Voting Foundation and
cannot provide any contact information, I recommend its page about the
Open Voting Foundation be somehow modified to reflect the foundation's
questionable status.

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Philippe Cloutier
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