Jocelyn Chappell wrote: > I have set up an e-petition
This is not the only e-petition on open source software running on the site and I doubt it will be the last. Might I suggest that in order for a truly significant number of signatures to be garnered, we first need to build a consensus about behind the a particular approach and behind a particular form of words which the maximum number of people can sign up to? One petition on the site has 1,379,129 signatures, but 10,000 would take us easily into the top twenty on the site. There are a number of membership bodies who may be prevailed upon to at least raise the petition with their membership if approached correctly. I'm thinking of UKUUG, BCS, as well as bodies in teaching and the civil service (which I know vanishing little about). The text of the actual petition is, I believe, very important and needs to amount a complete rationale for the petition. I'm aware that the rules for the content of the text is somewhat unfortunate[1] (no URLs, etc) is there also a concrete limit on the length of the "concise statement" and "More details" ? cheers stuart [1] http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/terms _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
