I think that more generally, this distinction makes no sense in the first place. Why is support from some organization better than support from a company?
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017, 11:22 Carsten Agger <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing that might help ever so little ... > > > Several of my colleagues signed the letter. > > My company wanted to support the project officially, including a donation > of money, and desired to have its logo listed among the "supporting > organizations". > > However, these can only be non-profits/civil society organizations, so we > couldn't be listed as official supporters (and our CEO kept his money). > > I can understand that for-profit companies are not NGOs, but why not have > a section with "supporting companies"? If many signed up, it would also > make a statement that actual companies working within the economy etc. > support this motion. > > Best > > > Carsten > > On 12/11/2017 12:15 PM, Gergely Székely wrote: > > Hi! > > I worriedly watch the slowing down of the accumulation of the signatures > of the Public Money Public Code open letter. I think this is a great > campaign that should reach as much people as possible and the slowing down > bellow 15k signatures sort of suggest that its spreading started fading way > too soon. > > Maybe we (FSFE volunteers, supporters, and members) should give the > campaign an extra push. I'm pretty certain that the vast majority of people > haven't even heard about the campaign yet. > > Some ideas: > > - Can't we know and get some celebrities of relatively famous guys > sympathizing with Free Software who may openly support the camping and > attract others to join as supporters? I don't know Stephen Fry is very > famous and I have seen him advertising Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre on youtube, > Bryan Lunduke also have some fame and a regular youtube program on Free > Software related stuff, and probably there are plenty of people who may > worth a shot to ask... > - I also think it would be worth bringing the campaign to the streets. > A couple of volunteers could bring campaign stickers or flyers ( > https://git.fsfe.org/gergely/PMPC_QR-code_flyers) and distribute them > to the passers-by. (If you are [or know] someone in Budapest who would > happily join me doing that please contact me. Unfortunately, I would feel > embarrassed to do this alone... :-/) > - I think putting posters to bulletin boards in universities would > also be great. Lack of official posters link > https://git.fsfe.org/gergely/PMPC_QR-code_flyers here too. I totally > plan to do this with the linked QR-code flyers even alone but if you are in > Budapest and happy to join please contact me as this is also more fun to do > in pairs or in groups. > - I think the campaign should also be boosted on online platforms > (forums, blogs, social media, etc). I'm only on diaspora* there I think I > did my part (maybe on diaspora* most of the active users are already > reached)... > - I don't know if opening and keeping alive threads about the campaign > on 4chan /g/ is a good idea or not? but I can help in that... Also if you > can recommend online platforms where I can help engaging in discussion > about the campaign I'm happy to do so. > > All in all: Keep spreading the message are way too many people to be > reached!!! > > What do you think? > > Best, > Gergely > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing > [email protected]https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion >
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