Re: Political Candidate Relations

2014-07-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:20 PM, McGovern, James james.mcgov...@hp.com wrote: I have decided to run for State Representative and often get questions from other candidates regarding ways government can be made more efficient. Do you think there is merit in technology groups such as Apache holding

Re: Political Candidate Relations

2014-07-14 Thread Rich Bowen
On 07/02/2014 02:20 PM, McGovern, James wrote: I have decided to run for State Representative and often get questions from other candidates regarding ways government can be made more efficient. Do you think there is merit in technology groups such as Apache holding forums to educate elected

Political Candidate Relations

2014-07-02 Thread McGovern, James
I have decided to run for State Representative and often get questions from other candidates regarding ways government can be made more efficient. Do you think there is merit in technology groups such as Apache holding forums to educate elected officials on the value of open source?

Re: Political Candidate Relations

2014-07-02 Thread Andrew Musselman
Yes, good idea. On Jul 2, 2014, at 11:20 AM, McGovern, James james.mcgov...@hp.com wrote: I have decided to run for State Representative and often get questions from other candidates regarding ways government can be made more efficient. Do you think there is merit in technology groups

Re: Political Candidate Relations

2014-07-02 Thread Hector Arroyo
James, In my opinion, government is more a management issue than advancing ideals and personal agendas. If this is possible, which I honestly doubt, things can get better. *Héctor M. Arroyo, BSIT/SE* *(352) 304-9427* On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Andrew Musselman andrew.mussel...@gmail.com

Re: Political Candidate Relations

2014-07-02 Thread Henri Yandell
I think that's the wrong question. We're (mostly) a bunch of programmers and know sod all about governance (much as each/most of us will happily expound on what we think we know :) ). I imagine however that many of us would happily offer up some time to hear about the problems that government