[ELECTRON] Is the Electron Club Becoming Too Political?

[ben dembroski]

I've always thought of open days as being, well, open.  Bring and show
yer stuff.   I know in the past, we've encouraged outside groups /
people to show 'n tell too.   So if makers wanna show, by all means
please do so.  But I'd hate to see anyone excluded because they
weren't makery or techy enough.

There's lots of kinds of hacking...

2009/5/13 makerfair <mcmadsat09-makerfairglasgow at yahoo.co.uk>:
> Despite being a political animal, I find myself broadly agreeing with James
> Watt's sentiments, at least in regards to the open day.
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> Nina Baker
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> --- On Wed, 13/5/09, James G Watt <kinetic-arts at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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> From: James G Watt <kinetic-arts at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] Is the Electron Club Becoming Too Political?
> To: "Discussion list for the Electron Club" <members at electronclub.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 13 May, 2009, 9:44 PM
>
> James Beeley wrote:
>> Looking at the program for the planned open day, and the web calendar, I
>> can see a lot of political activity which doesn't seem to have
> anything
>> to do with open-source software, hardware hacking, amateur radio, video
>> editing or any of the other stated aims of the club.
>
> I don't really want to get into what politics should or shouldn't be on
> display but I have to admit I find myself thinking an open day should be
> less
> 'this is what we stand for here' and more 'this is the cool stuff
> what we make here'.
>
> If I went to an electron club open day I'd want to see hear and touch lots
> of electronic stuff doing electonic things.
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