[okfn-discuss] Fwd: [COG] Join nerdServe.org, a listserve lottery for govies/hackers?

Mon Oct 1 19:39:05 UTC 2012

Forwarding this just in case anyone feels like playing email lottery to
evangelise for openness. ;-)

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From: Jason Blum <jason.blum at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:16 PM
Subject: [COG] Join nerdServe.org, a listserve lottery for govies/hackers?
To: citizens-for-opengov at googlegroups.com

Good Morning!

I'm starting up a "listserve lottery", inspired by http://thelistserve.com/,
but specifically for the hacker/govie/FLOSS/maker/nerd **community.

The idea is to randomly select one subscriber each day to email all the
other subscribers with a few words on anything they like - but hopefully
something related to their work, their tooling, process, philosophy,
something they'd like to build, collaborate on, etc.  It's a daily email to
inspire, expose you to unfamiliar technologies and practices, connect you
to folks who might not attend the same conferences.

I'll fire the list up once I get the first 100 subscribers, at which time
we'll make things a little exclusive, by requiring a recommendation from an
existing subscriber to join.  We'll moderate out anything offensive.
 Lottery winners will have one week to draft their emails.  Winners will be
selected randomly, so there's nothing keeping you from being selected more
than once.  Your email will never be shared, unless you include it in your
message.  All content is http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

I can't subscribers until they choose to do so in their messages, but I
will say we've already got some big names in the hacker/gov20 space.  I
think you would enjoy this!

So, hoping you'll consider joining:
http://nerdServe.org<http://nerdserve.org/> (or
reply to me with a thumbs-up and I'll add you directly.)

Thanks!

-Jason Blum
@phenotypical
Silver Spring, MD

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Head of Community
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org

http://twitter.com/jwyg
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