Add your comments on the value (or not) of hack nights ...

[Steven Clift]

Quite an important discussion sparked by an interview with Daniel X. O'Neil:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/1776573575907564/


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[Randy Baxley]

If we could scrap them and immediately begin to supply what anyone needs and not what they want with no individual, government or any corporate structure hoarding either the feel good or the actual then yes we should scrap them.  Sorry folks, even though these things have ableist, elitist, ageist drivel at their base they are what we have for now.  That and even as I write this in an email that is to OpenGovChicagoland and chihacknight I have to think that most of us are trying to describe our piece of the elephant as others are being chewed up, digested and excreted by the elephant.  FreeGeek, Blue1647, 1871, Pumping Station: One, SC3 and many others will find better ways to work with each other and when they do then without naming my friend who first said it too me now I will say then "see, we not only took your comment to heart, we took it to reality and we obliterated Google's business model".  And in the meanwhile I will crosspost.

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