[sllug-members]: A sign of the end times?

[John Havey]

Well, what if Irish or Corroon are in favor of the stuff you want? Then
you could vote for what you want and for someone with a chance of
winning. What if interest in their position on what you want caused them
to pay more attention to it? If what you want is real broadband via
UTOPIA, consider visiting this wiki:

http://wiki.freeutopia.org/

There are spaces there for information about candidates' positions on
UTOPIA, and there is an opportunity to collaborate support for the
candidate you favor.

If there are other things you want, perhaps we need more wikis.

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 10:19 -0600, Joseph Hall wrote:

> The fact that Shaun, or any other SLLUG/PLUG/OALUG/etc member would
> run for office tells me something. It doesn't tell me that they're
> going to do a good job, but it tells me that they share some of my
> same ideals. Maybe not all of them, but at least there is some common
> ground between us: open source.
>
> >  Irish and Corroon are far more likely to get elected than he is, and
> >  are certainly more likely to get elected than some random SLLUG
> >  member.
> 
> That's not really the point, is it? When Pete Ashdown ran for office,
> it was unlikely he would be elected. The fact that he got as many
> votes as he did was nothing short of a miracle. He didn't care. He
> wanted to make changes, and to protect us from bad changes being made.
> He brought to light a lot of issues that we, as open source
> enthusiasts, were already aware of, but that most people don't think
> about. In that respect, his campaign was not a failure.
> 
John