I don't want political discussions here, but I'm OK when an established member posts a one-line notice of an event with at least a peripheral relationship to tech.
If Scott had laid out all his arguments in favor of Obama or of this tech plan, I would probably complain. If he invited me to join his On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:45 AM, 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 and Michael Slaby (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 should help motivate you >> and and this story (fresh from TechCrunch) should give you some faith and >> insight into the plans that Steven is helping drive. Here are more >> details 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. -- 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.
