| maco | tangentially related to foss-y types, or rather to the fact that foss-y types are into eff-type stuff.... so, there's this new startup in the dc area, popvox.com, for sending messages to congress and then having it be public the stats on which way that state's constituents are leaning so there's accountability when congress critters vote the other way. here's about an anti-net-neutrality bill, if anyone'd like to try it out / tell md's senators that | 15:15 |
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| maco | net neutrality is awesome http://pvox.co/iVZEgE | 15:15 |
| JonathanD | Hi guys | 15:21 |
| JonathanD | ooh. | 15:22 |
| JonathanD | maco: do you know them? | 15:22 |
| JonathanD | I'd like to invite them to fosscon... | 15:22 |
| maco | JonathanD: one of my friends accepted a job offer there today... | 15:22 |
| JonathanD | maco: they sound like someone people would appreciate being there... | 15:22 |
| maco | i dont think their software is foss though | 15:23 |
| maco | though they are building on django so..python++ | 15:23 |
| JonathanD | Might not matter. | 15:23 |
| maco | just the transparency/open-gov thing with crowdsourcing being enough of a thing-we-tend-to-like? | 15:23 |
| JonathanD | Yeah, I think so | 15:24 |
| JonathanD | I know foss is in the name, but it tends to be more about "doing things together, making things better" | 15:25 |
| JonathanD | So personally I think a table and a talk would be awesome. | 15:25 |
| maco | well i can suggest to my friend that she mention it to her new bosses | 15:27 |
| JonathanD | I'd appreciate it. | 15:28 |
| JonathanD | I'm jonathand@fossevents.org, if they want to get in touch. | 15:28 |
| maco | JonathanD: know anybody at the EFF? i feel like the EFF should be one of the orgs on there giving their stance | 15:28 |
| maco | kk | 15:28 |
| JonathanD | I don't... well I might, but I think he left. | 15:29 |
| maco | ok | 15:29 |
| maco | i wonder if greg works ther | 15:29 |
| JonathanD | If they desire I can send them the whole sponsorhip info thing. | 15:29 |
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