<div dir="ltr">HI all-<div><br></div><div style>My role in this Hackerspace Challenge is limited to the recruitment and day-to-day logistics, so I'm not fully qualified to speak to the legal issues. However I do understand that there are legal complications in running a contest with a cash prize that make it difficult to include other countries. This is not particular to the US, and you'll see the same thing with contests run by organizations based in other countries.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Ken</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Chris Weiss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cweiss@gmail.com" target="_blank">cweiss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm pretty sure I've seen threads that only apply to EU spaces and I<br>
didn't see any crying from US spaces about it. now if you want to<br>
complain about a company (ab)using the list for self-promotion, that's<br>
a whole different angle.<br>
<br>
My take: this puts "hackerspace" as a "thing" in a more public view<br>
and helps a little to take back the "hacker" moniker that mass media<br>
has stolen. it's a good thing even if it is region limited.<br>
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Felicitus <<a href="mailto:felicitus@felicitus.org">felicitus@felicitus.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Unfortunately, we need to limit it to the US. Sorry!<br>
><br>
> As some others have replied before: Yes, this sucks. I especially agree<br>
> with Philip Poten. If you're looking for cheap advertisement, don't use<br>
> the general list, where there are probably more non-US readers than the<br>
> other way around.<br>
><br>
> Felicitus<br>
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