On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 15:36, Edward Cherlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> There are supposed to be 100,000 of us in the US, but the OLPC > resolution at change.org has received a pitiful 7 votes. If we don't > get ourselves on the national agenda, nobody else will do it for us. > Do you want your children and grandchildren to have XOs in school? > Then register and vote! > > http://www.change.org/ideas/search?category_id=25418&keyword=olpc&x=0&y=0 Hi, FYI: As near as I can tell, although change.org is appears at first glance to be affiliated with Obama's site, they are NOT change.gov and I don't think they have any capacity to do anything on a national policy level beyond having the "audacity to hope" that their site will gain momentum. That said, it didn't look like they were trying to scam anyone either. According to the "About Us" quote from their web site: | Change.org is a social entrepreneurship venture based in San Francisco, | CA. The company was founded by Ben Rattray in the summer of | 2005, and with the support of a friend from Stanford, Mark Dimas, and | a founding team of Darren Haas, Rajiv Gupta, and Adam Cheyer, | Change.org launched the first version of its site in 2007. Whois shows it to be registered w/ GoDaddy.com Registrant: Ben Rattray 709 Douglass St San Francisco, CA 94114 +1.202.253.1288 [email protected] Admin and Tech: Darren Haas 709 Douglass St San Francisco, CA 94114 +1.310.256.7223 [email protected] (Ben's number is a Washington, DC exchange...) _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
