Yeah, I know, not a KDE related blog. Not really anyway. I got bored monitoring Google Blogsearch for "KDE" for long enough to distract myself with another project. I think I've gone and gotten myself mixed up with politics again. While KDE has, in itself, nothing to do with politics, I've discovered that many of the skills that I've picked up while doing marketing and related activities for KDE can transfer into that realm relatively easily. For example, conference planning, public speaking, writing, promoting, etc. And it isn't that I have political aspirations either, at least not in the power-hungry sense. It's just that when I see something that I don't like, I have two options: complain about it from the peanut gallery, or actually take part in the due process of democracy and try to effect the improvements I think are needed. I usually choose the latter.
So now it seems I've finally found a party that somewhat meshes with my own political leanings. This is actually somewhat of a major event for me, as I've floated all over the spectrum, and never settled on any particular dogma. Anyway, I've discovered the Canadian Libertarian party, which is almost a non-entity. I've never really described myself as a Libertarian, as these people always bring up shades of Ron Paul, or similar US digg celebrities; nonetheless, the philosophy seems to fit, and as the tale says, "If shoe fits, wear it." (Say this with Chekov's accent - you know, Star Trek 6)
The party is so small right now that they won't be able to field a candidate in all the ridings nationally, but these things have to start somewhere. I'll be bringing my KDE marketing skills to the table, for whatever they're worth, and plying them to a new task. It might be some ugly guerrilla marketing stuff, but then, like KDE, it's all volunteer, so that's the budget. Maybe I buy some artwork from Nuno.
Anyway, whatever happened to Tom Chance? He used to talk about the UK Green Party on here all the time, and how he was working on free software and party policy...
Cheers folks, and happy hacking.
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