[FM Discuss] almost but no cigar

[Edward Cherlin]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 20:28, helen varley jamieson
<helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
> darn - that is a bit crap if a voting machine would be able to skew
> something like that! surely there should be some way to stop that kind of
> thing happening?

I happen to be a founding member of the Open Voting Consortium, which
is creating Free/Libre/Open Source Software for just such uses. I'm
going to bother them about writing a book here.

> however as you say there are lots of good things & certainly the amount of
> publicity & word of mouth spreading of booki has been great. good to hear
> also about the positive reception at transmediale.
>
> the real prize here is booki :)
>
> h : )
>
> On 6/02/11 1:08 AM, adam hyde wrote:
>>
>> hey all,
>>
>> We didn't get the votes. Almost but not quite. We were up against a
>> voting machine it seems so its pretty amazing we even got so far.
>>
>> I am a bit disappointed but it will pass shortly. However there have
>> been three really good things that came out of it:
>> * while Aco and I sold the idea of booki at Transmediale we met an awful
>> amount of people that were amazed by it. Actually, everyone we
>> demonstrated booki to was blown away. I'm really not exaggerating - I
>> dont think I presented it to anyone (and I must have talked to about 150
>> people) that wasnt totally into it once they understood it. That is
>> AMAZING and extremely encouraging.
>>
>> * The PR from the award will be good for us, and I think Drumbeat will
>> illuminate Booki and FM on their website when they push the announcement
>> of the award on their to-be-released new website.
>>
>> * It was astonishing how much support came back when I did the calls out
>> for help. Pretty amazing. The comments in the Drumbeat project pages
>> about booki were fantastic and I received a lot of email and messages
>> from a wide spectrum of people that love FM and booki. It might sound
>> gushy, but that has been pretty humbling.
>>
>> so, while we didnt get the award we did come out with more than what we
>> came with. Thats pretty cool I rekin.
>>
>>
>>
>> adam
>
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