On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:00 PM, George Mulak <geo...@americanfinancialtax.com> wrote: > Thank you Peter for chiming in. What you say makes a lot of sense. Nathan, > as always, has been patient and helpful in the Ubuntu hours and is much > appreciated. > > > > I agree with both of you, end-user events are best. I would, however, love > to let our legislature know that there are competitive products out there > making a difference in people’s lives. Software that is empowering them, > and not hobbling them.
It might be worth contacting these folks: http://opensourceforamerica.org/ > > > > Sincerely, > > George Mulak > > > > From: ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > [mailto:ubuntu-us-ca-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Peter Sullivan > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 12:44 PM > To: Ubuntu US California > > > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives > > > > Hi All, > > > > Although I am new to this group - not new to Linux or Ubuntu - I feel I must > chime in at this time. While raising awareness of the benefits of > FOSS/Ubuntu is laudable and likely could save the CA gov't boatloads of > cash, the UDS is hardly the venue to promote awareness. Talks about upstart > vs system.d, SELinux implementation, APIs and system calls etc will only > have non-tech folk looking at their watches very, very quickly. I agree w/ > the previous statement that an invitation to a user-focused (don't care for > the term 'consumer' much) event/forum holds a greater probability for > success in raising awareness and generating interest. This is our aim, yes? > Then let's not shoot ourselves in the foot by boring them to tears first. > > A practical example: Today US-CERT listed (I'm on their list) the following > rather extreme warning re UPnP (link vetted): > http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/922681 which in essence means shutting down > at the router level all UDP traffic on port 1900. Now to us this is a > simple task. How many of our elected representatives would have a clue? > Not many I assure you, though the page above does contain a link to Rapid7 > that has issued a Windoze tool for determining said vulnerability along w/ > remediation. My question stands: how many would know to go into their... > disable port 1900 across their LAN/WLAN? So if that is 'voodoo' for them, a > developer (the key word some are overlooking here) summit is way out of > their league. As a 'proof' I would offer that former Congresswoman Jane > Harman who was a ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee had her > home network (my best friend was her aid) set up as WEP speaks volumes. > > Bests, > > Peter > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Nathan Haines <nhai...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > On 01/29/2013 11:36 AM, George Mulak wrote: > > These are true and good ideas Nathan. No one wants to hurt Ubuntu or UDS in > any way that I know of. Would you help us develop this or give us > direction? > > > > Well, as I stated before I think it's a harmful idea, so no, I could not > ethically help develop the plan unless someone had a convincing argument > that inviting policymakers to UDS would be helpful to policymakers and not > harmful to UDS. My only suggestion until then is to start by collaborating > on a justification for the plan. > > While I am ready to be convinced, my recommendation would be to abandon this > idea and instead focus policymakers at end-user oriented events. > > > > -- > Nathan Haines > Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > > > > > -- > This email and its contents are sent to you on condition of confidentiality, > and may be protected by Federal Rule of Evidence 408; in any event, > disclosure to anyone other than intended recipients is unauthorized. If you > are not an intended recipient of this email, please delete it immediately > and notify me of the error. > > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
