Dork Knocking Campaign

This isn’t how you get advocacy done of any variety, IT or otherwise, for the same reason this isn’t how you pick up girls: because nobody wants to talk to a geeky spazz. Especially not Congressmen (or, more accurately, the staffers who are going to tell these suckas that their bosses aren’t available right now but if you’d…).

When is the open source community going to learn how Washington works? It’s a lot easier than, say, compiling a kernel. Maybe someone should write a man page. Or maybe these cats could send the money they’re raising to a professional lobbyist.