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

[Jenny Ryan]

I am in complete agreement with Marc and Bill here, and am very much
against any kind of collaboration with military recruitment-related
endeavors in our community. I sent out a tweet from sudoroom to the
organizer (who had tweeted about the event being held at sudoroom) that the
members have not endorsed this event, and some are vehemently opposed. Her
response is below:

 zanylikethat <https://hootsuite.com/dashboard#> 8:33pm via Web
<http://twitter.com/zanylikethat/status/389594694432210944>

@sudoroom <https://hootsuite.com/dashboard#> Everyone we spoke with was
welcoming and great. If anyone was bothered, please have them contact me.
We won't be back next month.


Jenny
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On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:16 PM, William Budington <bill at inputoutput.io>wrote:

> 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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