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- From: richw@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Rich Webber)
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:19:07 GMT
- Subject: CPSR: What can Clinton do for computing professionals?
- Message-ID: <156300003@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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- Found this and thought someone might be interested in providing
- a 'motss' perspective.
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- Rich
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- Copied here FYI, from gnu.announce:
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- PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS WHEREVER YOU FEEL IT IS APPROPRIATE
- BUT ONLY WHERE YOU FEEL IT IS APPROPRIATE
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- AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE YOUR SAY ABOUT COMPUTING IN THE FUTURE
-
- This is Gary Chapman, director of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, office
- of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. I edit The CPSR
- Newsletter, a quarterly publication that goes to all CPSR members and
- about 400 other people, including a lot of policymakers, members of
- Congress, administration officials, etc.
-
- We're going to try something unusual for the next CPSR Newsletter, and
- I'm putting out a call for help. We're going to publish a special issue
- on "What the Clinton Administration Can Do For The Computing Profession
- and the Public." I'm sending out this message to ask people to send me
- SHORT contributions to this issue, just brief comments about what the
- new administration can do to help support computing in the United
- States, or perhaps the world.
-
- Here are a few basic guidelines for these submissions:
-
- 1. SHORT MEANS SHORT -- In order to publish as many of these as we can,
- we need to keep each contribution to about 100-150 words, max, one or
- two paragraphs. In fact, anything longer will probably be eliminated
- out of fairness to others.
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- 2. YOU MUST IDENTIFY YOURSELF -- Again, briefly, with just your name
- and one line that says something about you, such as Joe Blow or Sally
- Smith, Programmer, BillyBob Corporation, or Centerville, Ohio, or
- something like that, whatever you prefer.
-
- 3. ADDRESS ISSUES OF PUBLIC POLICY -- In order to make these
- contributions relevant to the Clinton administration, they should
- concern issues about which government can or should do something, or
- stop doing, whatever. These include major issues such as privacy,
- access to information, computer networks like the Internet or NREN, R&D
- priorities, equitable access to computers, intellectual property,
- defense policy, risks to the public, etc. We're not really interested
- in contributions that are self-serving, parochial, excessively arcane or
- trivial, belligerently and unconstructively critical, and so on. We
- will favor messages that discuss the intersection of computing and major
- issues of concern to the public at large.
-
- 4. PLEASE INCLUDE A WORKABLE E-MAIL ADDRESS -- In case I have to get
- back to you about the text. We won't publish e-mail addresses, I
- promise.
-
- 5. GET ALL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ME BY JANUARY 15, 1993. My e-mail address
- is chapman@silver.lcs.mit.edu.
-
- This is not limited to people in the United States, although overseas
- contributors will have to make a case for what the Clinton
- administration should do to help international computing -- the focus
- will be on U.S. government policy.
-
- We're going to try and get this issue into the hands of the key players
- on computing and high tech policy in the new administration. For the
- most part we already know who those people are, and we're talking to
- them about the issues that CPSR is working on. This newsletter will
- give them a good impression, we hope, of the concerns of the computing
- profession and people who use computer networks. Consider this an
- opportunity for a kind of "hard copy" town hall.
-
- Thanks for your help! Get those messages coming!
-
- Gary Chapman
- Coordinator
- The 21st Century Project
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
- Cambridge, MA
- chapman@silver.lcs.mit.edu
-