[RTC List] Fw: Re Happy Holiday Wishes from Cole Machado

Fri Dec 26 00:19:10 PST 2008

To see more about how Join the Impact got started and our server emergency/issues we experienced when we first went live on Friday Nov 7th read our wikipedia article.  Basicly over that weekend we had so many people visiting our site it kept crashing many times. Such a movement like our spread like wildfire on the net.
Our server was donated over that weekend by a company in Seattle called Hostdango. They kept having to up our account untill they gave us a dedicated server. They are a small local company They are a LGBT Friendly company. They are a good business to support if you like us couldn't find suitable, dependable hosting provider in Humboldt County. 

Support OUR Support - Hostdango.com is offering 20% off to 100 LGBTQ friendly sites. Use Coupon Code IMPACT

	* It has been amazing the amount of traffic the sites has been getting.

The wiki is hosted by a company called Wet Paint they are amazing. If you are in the market for a good wiki community host that is free and pretty easy to use! Check out www.wetpaint.com they are also based in Seattle and are LGBT friendly. We have over 15,000 users on our wetpaint site http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com

The wetpaint wiki is where we were able to organize in less than a week our volunteer city organizers in over 400 cities and 10 countries for our National Day of Protest on 11-15-08. Locally we had about 700 people show up to the Courthouse. Nationwide we had an estiamted 1 Million people join us at the same time all across the world. We are using the wiki community to organize our next big event the National DOMA Protest on 1/10 where we plan to get 1 million signatures on a letter to President Elect Obama reminding him of his promises he has made to the LGBT community. We will then deliver the letter to him on Day 1.

	* 

___________________________________________________________________________________
¸..·*´¨¨~-:¦:-
¸.·´ ..·´¨¨))
((¸¸.·´ ..·´ *-:¦:- Cole J. Machado-:¦:-
-:¦:- ((¸¸.·´* Read my blog at www.colemachado.com
Phone: 707-442-5555 Fax: 612-545-3509

President & CEO, The Machado Group www.machadogroup.com
Northern California Regional & California Statewide Liaison, Join the Impact www.jointheimpact.com
Founder & Community Organizer, Impact Humboldt & Join the Impact Humboldt www.impacthumboldt.com
Founder & Community Organizer, 707 Progressive www.707progressive.ning.com
Member of the Board of Directors, Humboldt Pride www.humboldtpride.org
Please consider the environment before printing this email.
This e-mail may contain Company proprietary information intended for the sole use of the recipient(s). Any use by others is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies of the message.

________________________________
From: William Van Hefner <vantek at humboldtonline.com>
To: list at redwoodtech.org
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 11:51:58 PM
Subject: Re: [RTC List] Fw: Re  Happy Holiday Wishes from Cole Machado

Mr. Machado,

1. I have offered absolutely no personal opinions about anything for you
(or anyone) to disagree with.

2. The only matter in question was the fact that your post was off-topic
and (as you, yourself stated) shouldn't have been sent to the listserv in
the first place. You offered an apology for the accidental mailing. I'm
fine with that, personally. Mistakes happen, especially with Yahoo! mail.

List-Id: "This is a discussion list for tech topics on the north coast."

Let's please just keep the list on-topic and civil. I do apologize if the
crack about Craigslist upset you. It was sarcasm, which does not always
translate well to the written word. I hope that you take advantage of the
listserv as often as possible to contribute your input on Humboldt
County-related tech and broadband matters.

Best of luck with your non-profit. Congratulations on the dedicated
server. You might want to let us know how it is you cope with the
unreliability of Internet connectivity on the North Coast and how it
affects your server operation and choice of co-location facilities. Merry
Christmas.

-- 
William Van Hefner - President
Vantek Communications, Inc.
e-mail: vantek at humboldtonline.com

On Thu, December 25, 2008 9:14 pm, Cole Machado wrote:
> William Van Hefner:
> Sorry it was an accident. the email went to everyone in my
> address book the RTC listserv has a spot in my address book, as it has
> since I joined back in 2001. So it went there by accident.
>
>
> I hope you are having a Happy Holiday. That was the gist of my message. I
> am sorry if it offended you.
>
> Also a main part of my post was about the non-profit, Join the Impact
> www.JoinTheImpact.com and Impact Humboldt www.ImpactHumboldt.com I am
> involved with. Our non-proit uses technology 99% of the time to
> communicate and run. We use a wiki and have a dedicated server for god
> sake with 15,000 users. Again I am sorry if the option of 60% of Humboldt
> County residents disagrees with yours and you attempt try to censor other
> members of the RTC.
>
> I find your acts delporable. I may find need to blog about this tomorrow
> if I dont find other suitable content. If I do I will be quoting the
> email you sent me.
> _________________________________________________________________________
> __________
> ¸..·*´¨¨~-:¦:-
> ¸.·´ ..·´¨¨))
> ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ *-:¦:- Cole J. Machado-:¦:-
> -:¦:- ((¸¸.·´* Read my blog at www.colemachado.com
> Phone: 707-442-5555 Fax: 612-545-3509
>
>
>
> President & CEO, The Machado Group www.machadogroup.com
> Northern California Regional & California Statewide Liaison, Join the
> Impact www.jointheimpact.com
> Founder & Community Organizer, Impact Humboldt & Join the Impact Humboldt
> www.impacthumboldt.com Founder & Community Organizer, 707 Progressive
> www.707progressive.ning.com Member of the Board of Directors, Humboldt
> Pride www.humboldtpride.org
> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
> This e-mail may contain Company proprietary information intended for the
> sole use of the recipient(s). Any use by others is prohibited. If you are
> not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all
> copies of the message.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: William Van Hefner <vantek at humboldtonline.com>
> To: list at redwoodtech.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 7:19:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [RTC List] Happy Holiday Wishes from Cole Machado
>
>
> Cole Machado,
>
>
> Can we please keep politics, religion, and personal matters OFF of the
> RTC
> mailing list? If you just want to stir up trouble, take it to the Rants and
> Raves section of Craigslist. This really is not the appropriate venue
> for anything other than the discussion of technology as it applies to
> business, residents and local commerce in Northern California, with a
> particular focus on how it affects small to medium local businesses.
>
>
> William Van Hefner - President
>
>
> Vantek Communications, Inc.
> e-mail: postmaster at humboldtonline.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> List mailing list
> List at redwoodtech.org
> http://redwoodtech.org/mailman/listinfo/list_redwoodtech.org
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> List mailing list
> List at redwoodtech.org
> http://redwoodtech.org/mailman/listinfo/list_redwoodtech.org
>
>

_______________________________________________
List mailing list
List at redwoodtech.org
http://redwoodtech.org/mailman/listinfo/list_redwoodtech.org

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://redwoodtech.org/pipermail/list_redwoodtech.org/attachments/20081226/ecbf1bac/attachment.html>