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RE: [PhillyOnRails] Center City Meeting @ Comcast
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I live roughly an hour away a bit north of Trenton - center city, NE Pilly,
it doesn't matter. What matters is not where the group meets but the fact
that it does meet.
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From: talk-bounces@phillyonrails.org [mailto:talk-bounces@phillyonrails.org]
On Behalf Of Christopher Continanza
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:17 AM
To: talk@phillyonrails.org
Subject: Re: [PhillyOnRails] Center City Meeting @ Comcast
Hey Guys:
Although I suggested the comcast building a minute ago, I can't help
but wholeheartedly agree with Cassius.
But I would still love to see any meetings happen in center city!
One of the reasons I moved to a city was in the hopes of having a
user group that met there and I could walk to.
also, if we think of all the ruby on rails action in the philly area,
having RUG meetings in fort-washington all the time and alternating
pubnites gives the burbs 3/4 and CC 1/4
the only way to have things 50-50 is:
1) have RUG meetings in FT washington and PubNites in CC
2) Alternate locations for both RUG meetings and pubnites-- that way
each month there could be one CC event and one Ft washington event.
what do you guys think?
cheers,
chris
ps. Cassius: thank you for the sobriety check.
On Nov 9, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Cassius Rosenthal wrote:
> I would love to attend most of the meetings in Center City.
>
> However, I do have ethical objections to the meetings being held in
> the Comcast building. Ed Rendell, the supposedly left-leaning
> governor of PA and former employee of Comcast, has given Comcast
> $30 million in tax breaks for their newest building, while cutting
> Medicaid by $300 million. That 1/10th could have made a huge
> difference to this city's poor, elderly, sick, and disabled.
>
> Comcast also lobbied Rendell to block the free city-wide wifi
> project. As of now, the city isn't allowed to undercut Comcast's
> price for Internet access. Obviously, this also negatively affects
> the poor, particularly the beleaguered education system. It's also
> a slap in the face to self-governance. Most importantly, as a user
> group of an open-source online development platform, we should all
> be wary of a company that uses strong-arm tactics to retain a
> monopoly over Internet access.
>
> Let's not forget that Comcast is one of the leading opponents of
> Net Neutrality. If we were to have our meetings there, it would be
> like having a LUG on a Microsoft campus.
>
> I'd still come to the meetings if they were held there -- heck, as
> a tax-payer, I helped pay for the place -- but I'd have a really
> hard time stomaching their recruiting speech.
>
> That's my $0.02, probably more than you bargained for.
>
> Thanks!
> -Cassius
>
>
>
> Eric Snyder wrote:
>> Comcast has offered to provide us indefinitely with meeting space
>> and food in their building at 15th & Market. I hear that it is a
>> really nice space. As a sponsor they would put out recruiting
>> literature at the meeting and possibly speak for a minute or two.
>> This is an old discussion but I would like to revive it. I
>> personally favor alternating between Center City and the northern
>> burbs locations. Now that this may be closer to reality, please
>> state or re-state your opinion. - Every meeting in Center City?
>> - Alternate between locations?
>> - Most meetings in the burbs and the occasional meeting in Center
>> City?
>> - Most meetings in Center City and the occasional meeting in the
>> burbs?
>>
>> Thanks!
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