[hackerspaces] Sigh -- I'm not helping with Maker Faires this year.

[Don Ankney]

It's hard to point this out without sounding like a troll (and I'm really trying not to), but DARPA funding is pretty closely tied to the origin on the Internet. I honestly don't understand the objections for grants such as Maker Faires.

For the Internet, the DARPA funding is acceptable because we believe in the end result of the funding. How is Maker Faire any different? It's not as if the Faire has the potential for being weaponized.



From: Al Jigong Billings <albill at openbuddha.com<mailto:albill at openbuddha.com>>
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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:26:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Sigh -- I'm not helping with Maker Faires this year.

It is a government agency associated with and funded by the military (the 'd' stands for "Defense"). Some of us don't want to be associated with the Military (or the Military-Industrial Complex) or our ongoing wars in multiple nations.

Al

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Al Jigong Billings
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On Monday, April 2, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Digimer wrote:

I'm not familiar with any controversy behind DARPA. May I ask the
back-story?


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