[sudo-discuss] [HELP] Oak Tech teacher requests space 6hrs/1x/month **starting Sunday**

[William Budington]

I have to agree with Marc here.  I think initially this probably comes
off as a "good way to help techie kids with a competition" but actually
is targeted at kids to basically be a forum for promotion of the
technological ventures of the military industrial complex. The name
CyberPatriot should be a dead give-away that this is not something we
want to be promoting anything like this or have it in our space.  Even
if it wasn't an outright Air-Force recruitment front, this kind of
jingoistic marketing (in the name itself) should be dealt with a heavy
dose of scepticism.

Bill

On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 19:31:34 -0700, Marc Juul wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Vicky Knox <vknoxsironi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Do you all have any recommendations on how to expedite this? What is the
> > current status of the large room and using it for  events?
> >
> > For background, this teacher origianally contacted info at sudoroom but
> > never got a response, and called the SR number today, slightly frantic. I
> > think it would be really awesome if we were able to help her out. This
> > event seems quite an incredible opportunity for young people.
> >
> 
> What? What have you been smoking?
> 
> The Air Force Association's CyberPatriot? Sponsored by Northrop
> Grumman?!Why are people assuming that this is something sudo room
> wants to support
> or in any way encourage?
> 
> This sounds terrible. I am going to take this up at this Wednesdays sudo
> room meeting. I am completely against anything like this happening in or
> near sudo room in any way shape or form. I do not believe I am alone in
> feeling like this. I am both surprised and very disappointed that a
> critical and sceptical approach was not taken in dealing with something
> like this on behalf of sudo room.
> 
> -- 
> Marc

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