One of the projects we have worked on this year has been
to create a website service for Talk to US.

Talk to US is a global video forum, inviting ordinary
people around the world to speak directly to the
American public. Talk to US is a gallery of 30 second
video messages from citizens of other countries,
addressing their thoughts to citizens of America.

The goals of Talk to US are to better inform Americans
about the concerns of citizens around the world, create
greater global goodwill, and create an engaged global
community.

And, just possibly, affect the outcome of the US general election. 

To view the video gallery for yourself, visit the Talk
to US website at: http://www.talktous.org

Though Talk to US may have an underlying political
agenda, this e-mail is about the technology, rather than
the politics, of the website. In creating the website,
we played a purely engineering role. The content was
created entirely by Talk to US; the technology was
created entirely by Neda. We were responsible for every
aspect of the technical design and implementation of
this site. We are hosting the service in our Data
Center, and continue to operate and maintain the
service.

>From an engineering perspective, the Talk to US website
is noteworthy in several respects. First and foremost,
TalkToUS.org is a Libre Service. This means that the
website is constructed using 100% open-source and free
software. This includes all the technical capabilities
of the website, such as the ability to maintain the
video gallery and support streaming video -- all this is
accomplished using free software. There is not one
single line of proprietary code anywhere within the
website. For more information about Libre Services,
visit the Libre Services website at:
www.LibreServices.org

The working TalkToUS website provides additional
confirmation that:

-- The Libre Services model is a viable solution for
   real-world applications.

-- Our Data Center is now secure and reliable enough to
   host large-scale client services, and has the
   bandwidth and scalability necessary for complex,
   demanding applications. A key technical requirement
   of the Talk to US website is the ability to support
   streaming video, on the scale and scope demanded by
   this application. We have invested in and built up
   our Data Center to the point where this is now well
   within our capabilities.

-- As a company, Neda can provide a complete, end-to-end
   solution to clients requiring web presence. We can
   act as consultants to design and implement the
   required web service, and as necessary, we can host
   and maintain the service. We are a full-service,
   one-stop shop for web services.

As a non-profit organization, the development and
maintenance costs were a major consideration for Talk to
US. By basing the solution entirely on free software,
and by acting as a one-stop shop for all our client's
needs, we were able provide a solution that is both
complete and affordable.

We are interested in developing other solutions based on
100% free software, and in populating our Data Center
with additional client services. We have the expertise,
and the Data Center is ready. If you have, or know
about, problems in search of the kind of solution we can
offer, please contact us, or refer us to others.

Next Tuesday, November 2 the eyes of the world will be
on us. Please exercise your privilege and duty to vote!