I'm bringing Mitt & Obama for a coding Kata next week is that cool? Excuse that... just throwing some levity in there. I am stoked the administration has put a much greater emphasis on tech. But yeah, I'm not a big fan of dealing with the political bits. I'd rather just talk about stuff like programming and such. ;)
-Cheers! Adron On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Chris Bilson <cbil...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hi Scott, > > Thanks for the information about this event, however, the event you > mentioned strikes me as overtly political and not really related to > alt.net in any significant way. While I don't have anything against any > particular political candidate and I respect the desire of folks like > yourself that want to help the candidate you believe in, I just don't think > it belongs on a mailing list like this. > > Although there is no official rules about bringing politics to the list, I > personally think we should avoid it and I think there are others on the > list that feel the same. > > If anyone disagrees with this sentiment, please speak up. I may be > completely off base and apologize if that is the case. > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Scott Porad <scottpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all-- >> >> I am co-hosting this event, and will be attending tonight. I hope you >> can make it. >> >> Scott >> >> ---- >> >> >> Please join Tech4Obama on Wednesday, May 30th at 6:30pm to hear about >> tech & the Obama campaign from Steven Van >> Roekel<http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-26/u-s-technology-chief-vanroekel-vows-cuts-to-wasteful-systems.html> >> and Michael Slaby <http://michaelslaby.com/> (Obama for America’s Chief >> Integration & Innovation Officer). **** >> >> Logistics:**** >> >> **· ***Where*: Portage Bay Café, South Lake Union, 391 Terry Ave >> N. Seattle**** >> >> **· ***When*: 6:30pm (until about 8:30pm)**** >> >> **· ***RSVP & more information*: >> https://my.barackobama.com/May30Tech4ObamaSeattle?custom1=270846**** >> >> ** ** >> >> For why it’s really important for the Seattle tech community to come to >> this and to rally behind the President, this >> story<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76690.html> should >> help motivate you and and this >> story<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76690.html> (fresh >> from TechCrunch) should give you some faith and insight into the plans that >> Steven is helping drive. Here are more >> details<http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/05/23/roadmap-digital-government> >> on >> the plan. >> >> >> -- >> Scott Porad >> sc...@porad.com >> 206-890-7079 >> http://scottporad.com/ >> http://twitter.com/scottporad >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> To post to this group, send email to altnetseattle@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> altnetseattle+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. > To post to this group, send email to altnetseattle@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > altnetseattle+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. > -- *Adron B Hall* *Tech Blog*: http://compositecode.com *Iron Foundry Project*: http://www.ironfoundry.org *About Me*: http://compositecode.com/about *Twitter*: http://www.twitter.com/adron -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to altnetseattle@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to altnetseattle+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
