Recently the Dutch Electoral Board (where I am also a very part time advisor) invited me to do a talk reflecting on their open source Abacus vote tabulation software. Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment), surrounded by enough automated testing (CI, continuous integration) that we can be reasonably sure that a new revision is likely to at least work to some extent.
Opinion | To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software (Published 2017)
The threats to elections have never been more serious, and the security of election machinery has never been more important.
adhocracy+/Participation software must be open source - a plea for democratic software
Adhocracy is open source software. This article argues that investment software must be open source and explains the reasons why we are convinced of it.
Malleable Software in the Age of AI - Geoffrey Litt
Software Should Work
An independent conference on software reliability in Columbia, MO on July 16-17, 2026
Bobby Grayson - Deciduous
Producing Open Source Software
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doctrine — vit
The vit doctrine: software should live. A social system for personalized software where the unit of exchange is capability.
doctrine — vit
The vit doctrine: software should live. A social system for personalized software where the unit of exchange is capability.
Polyglot Software Unconference 2026
A day of spontaneous sharing, learning, and networking for software builders. Participants set the agenda using "open-spaces" format.
The next wave in software is open adoption software | TechCrunch
There’s a big shift happening in how enterprises buy and deploy software. In the last few years, open technology -- software that is open to change and free to adopt -- has gone from the exception to the rule for most enterprises. We’ve seen the IT stack redrawn atop powerful open-source projects, with developers opting for an “open-first” approach to building solutions.
Bulgarian Government Now Requires Custom Software to be Open Source
The Bulgarian government has just passed an amendment to its Electronic Governance Act that mandates all custom software created for the government must be open source. The amendment was voted on i…
The Spoofax language workbench | Proceedings of the ACM international conference companion on Object oriented programming systems languages and applications companion
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The Interface of Kai Krause's Software @mprove
Matthias Müller-Prove, Innovative Benutzungsschnittstellen, 1998/99, University of Hamburg
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source...
Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied. We conduct a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to understand how AI tools at the...
Fine-grained and accurate source code differencing | Proceedings of the 29th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
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