Waldo Jaquith writes:

"I'm a long-time advocate and user of open source and free software and, as of this morning, I am a candidate for the Charlottesville, VA (USA) City Council.

Naturally, I see lots of areas in Charlottesville's IT infrastructure (as well as potential areas of expansion) where Linux and various free software projects would be ideal.

But can I make that a talking point while campaigning?

How do I make that concept accessible and interesting to 40,000 citizens?" (Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 15, @02:37PM on Slashdot/News for Nerds) from the kiss-babies-and-hand-them-cds dept.

See Slashdot for Responses.