[Owasp-leaders] Meetup.com goes Deep Politcal

Tue Feb 14 01:56:24 UTC 2017

Products and services such a Google don't promote political agendas and 
political organizations on their home page, and in their emails to 
customers.  When they do they become a political organization, whether 
they are for-profit or not-for-profit.  So the point is that OWASP 
shouldn't be involved with promoting and funding political 
organizations.   Let's stay out of the politics, and focus on AppSec as 
we have said before.

-- Ralph Durkee

On 02/13/2017 08:44 PM, Evin Hernandez wrote:
> Agree with Gregory .
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Gregory Disney 
> <gregory.disney at owasp.org <mailto:gregory.disney at owasp.org>> wrote:
>
>     Ralph,
>     I would like to point out you are using a political organization
>     (Google) to say we should severe ties. Does this have to be a huge
>     reactionary tizzy? You have to ask yourself does the tool serve a
>     purpose without redoing the wheel to do Meetups. If a tool is also
>     used by political groups, who cares? They also profit from
>     baseball games and bar hopping and everything else under the sun.
>     So why do we care if they host political meetups, if it serves our
>     needs?
>
>
>     On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Ralph Durkee (OWASP)
>     <Ralph.Durkee at owasp.org <mailto:Ralph.Durkee at owasp.org>> wrote:
>
>         Until recently meetup.com <http://meetup.com> has catered to
>         and been used by people of a wide diversity of backgrounds.
>         Now they have turned their organization into an political
>         movement that is sure to disenfranchise a large chunk of the
>         OWASP community.   It's no longer appropriate for OWASP to
>         have a relationship with an organization that is politically
>         biased and offensive to people that disagree with their
>         political views, or don't want to support the political
>         agenda.  On the meetup home at the bottom is floating panel
>         with a link to https://www.meetup.com/pro/resist/
>         <https://www.meetup.com/pro/resist/>
>
>         How can we sever our relationship with meetup?  I know I
>         recently got an email saying my account was expiring and
>         asking me to pay the $50 meetup membership fee.  I won't pay it!
>
>         -- 
>         -- Ralph Durkee
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