<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Passing this on to the greater Hackerspace community to think about. A few things:<div><br></div><div>1 - The Boy Scouts have shown they don't give a fuck about public opinion so not sure this will make an impact</div><div>2 - That said, getting the word out can't hurt and the more people that know about this the better</div><div>3 - This is so fucked up</div><div><br></div><div>xo</div><div>-s</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">phillip torrone <<a href="mailto:pt@adafruit.com">pt@adafruit.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>boy scouts suing hacker scouts</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 19, 2013 7:49:20 PM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:mitch@CornfieldElectronics.com">mitch@CornfieldElectronics.com</a> Altman" <<a href="mailto:mitch@CornfieldElectronics.com">mitch@CornfieldElectronics.com</a>>, Sean Bonner <<a href="mailto:sean@seanbonner.com">sean@seanbonner.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Samantha Cook <<a href="mailto:sam@hacker-scouts.org">sam@hacker-scouts.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div>hey mitch and sean,<br><br>the boy scouts are suing the hacker scouts, i believe public pressure can get them to back off.<br><br>are you able to email all hackers spaces and do a hacker scout day? this would be a day we celebrate together sending a clear signal that the boy scouts are not going to sue and bully people. we could all change our sites for one day too to get the word out.<br><br>here's a post about this:<br><a href="http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/08/19/hacker-scouts-is-served-cease-and-desist-letter-from-boy-scouts-of-america-boyscouts/">http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/08/19/hacker-scouts-is-served-cease-and-desist-letter-from-boy-scouts-of-america-boyscouts/</a><br><br>hacker scouts post (site is down right now):<br>http://hacker-scouts.org/blog/hacker-scouts-and-bsa<br><br>contact info for folks to write in and comment:<br><br>Boy Scouts Google+ page:<br>https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BoyScoutsofAmerica/posts<br><br>Boy Scouts Facebook page:<br>https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boy-Scouts-of-America/113441755297<br><br>Bot Scouts on Twitter:<br>https://twitter.com/boyscouts<br><br>Boy Scouts on YouTube:<br>http://www.youtube.com/bsa100years<br><br>Email:<br>PR@scouting.org<br><br>The official publication for the adult volunteers site:<br>http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org<br><br>On Twitter:<br>http://www.twitter.com/scouting<br><br>On Facebook:<br>http://www.facebook.com/scoutingmagazine<br><br>Email:<br>scoutingmag@gmail.com<br><br>Boy's Life Magazine:<br>http://boyslife.org/<br><br>On Twitter:<br>https://twitter.com/BoysLife<br>Email:<br>boyslife.mag@scouting.org<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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