<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Call them "Asshole Scouts" then when the Boy Scouts complain about the name say "Oh yeah, you guys are the Assholes! We'll take that part out."<br><br><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Aug 22, 2013, at 3:44 AM, matt <<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com">matt@nycresistor.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">how about... hacker youth!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Dr. Glass DPM <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glass.dpm@gmail.com" target="_blank">glass.dpm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>I couldn't agree more.  Thanks Mitch<br><br>Sent via mobile (so I'm not responsible for autocorrected words which make no sense)</div>
<div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Aug 21, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Mitch Altman <<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com" target="_blank">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>


<div dir="ltr">We really need to put pressure on the F*!&^#(&-ing  A*!&^#(&-holes.  They really do not seem to care about the world we all inhabit, and need to be put in their place.<br> <br>MAKE, Sparkfun, Adafruit are into pressuring the BSA.  If we can get a bunch of hackerspaces to do the same, we will make an impact.<br>
 <br>"<font color="#800000">no matter what happens, how we all react to a group like the BSA will define "us"
fighting and losing is ok, but i think you need to fight it all the way… think of
a world where there are hacker scouts, learning sharing and it would all start
with a shared victory together over an old oppressive scared group trying to get
in the way of the future.</font>" -- Phil Torrone, of Adafruit<br> <br>Here are just a few places to add some well-placed comments:<br>>>>>>> Boy Scouts Google+ page:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BoyScoutsofAmerica/posts" target="_blank">https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BoyScoutsofAmerica/posts</a><br>
>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Boy Scouts Facebook page:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boy-Scouts-of-America/113441755297" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boy-Scouts-of-America/113441755297</a><br>
>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Bot Scouts on Twitter:<br>>>>>>> <a href="https://twitter.com/boyscouts" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/boyscouts</a><br>>>>>>> <br>
>>>>>> Boy Scouts on YouTube:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/bsa100years" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/bsa100years</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Email:<br>
>>>>>> <a href="mailto:PR@scouting.org" target="_blank">PR@scouting.org</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> The official publication for the adult volunteers site:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org" target="_blank">http://blog.scoutingmagazine.org</a><br>
>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> On Twitter:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/scouting" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/scouting</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> On Facebook:<br>
>>>>>> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/scoutingmagazine" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/scoutingmagazine</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Email:<br>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:scoutingmag@gmail.com" target="_blank">scoutingmag@gmail.com</a><br>
>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> Boy's Life Magazine:<br>>>>>>> <a href="http://boyslife.org/" target="_blank">http://boyslife.org/</a><br>>>>>>> <br>>>>>>> On Twitter:<br>
>>>>>> <a href="https://twitter.com/BoysLife" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BoysLife</a><br>>>>>>> Email:<br>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:boyslife.mag@scouting.org" target="_blank">boyslife.mag@scouting.org</a><br>
<br>Best,<br>Mitch.<br> <br> <br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:isdale@gmail.com" target="_blank">isdale@gmail.com</a><br>Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 21:56:52 -1000<br>To: <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Fwd: boy scouts suing hacker scouts<br><br><div>Unfortunately "The Boy Scouts have held a congressional charter since 1916 that gives the organization the "exclusive right to use emblems, badges, descriptive or designating marks, and words or phrases" that it adopts. Groups such as the Girl Scouts of the USA, Red Cross and Little League Baseball have similar protection." </div>
(LA Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-boy-scouts-threaten-hacker-scouts20130819%2c0%2c2398209.story" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-boy-scouts-threaten-hacker-scouts20130819,0,2398209.story</a>)<div>
<br></div><div>It is interesting that there are many other groups (noted in earlier emails) that include the term 'scout' in their name.  Why have they not been threatened by BSA? or perhaps they have been?<br><br>
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