Hi all,
for a long time we planed to have a campaign around pdfreaders.org again. It took me a while to think about it, talk with Markus Meier our designer and readjust it. Now I worked with Maëlle on the finalisation of the plan, and she summarised our results. We would like to get your feedback, so we can send this proposal to team@fsfeurope.org on Monday.
We thought in organising a two-waves-event: the first part consisting in a contest, where Fellows, Fellowship groups country-team, and any volunteer we could enrol, would submit screen-shots from authorities' websites with links asking people to download Adobe, Foxit or any other non-free pdf reader.
This "bug hunt" would take place between the 15th August and the 31st September. As a motivation, a price will be given to the person who would have gathered the most screen-shots. A participation as a group will also be possible (the price for both categories must still be defined, any ideas ??).
After a time of processing the results of the screen-shot-gathering, the second wave would begin with a petition on non-free software commercial on government website. Parallel to this, letters will be sent to the authorities from which the screen-shots were taken in order to have them react. This action should stand until the end of November.
In the beginning of December, a press release will make a balance of what has been done and achieved and could be the occasion of a call for the year end donation as well as an outlook for Document Freedom Day.
= Timeline =
All in all, it would require 4 press releases, one petition, one letter, one uploading form for the screen-shots, and a lot of translations scheduled like in the following proposal :
- midst of July : - writing of an explanation of the sequence of events intended at the participants and the administrators of the country teams. - A mail shall be send to the the administrators of the country teams to know who takes part of the campaign.
- end of July : - sending out of the overall explanation of the "contest" to country teams and Fellowship Groups - preparation of the form to upload the screen-shots
- Mid August : - First press release about the gathering of the screen shots.
- 18th September: - reminder call for participation on the occasion of the Software Freedom Day. Mainly targeted at the community.
- until 1st week October: - processing of results. Second press release published about the outcome of the gathering phase + announcing the fixing phase. - preparation and translation of the letter to the authorities and of the petition and the 3rd press release about who the winners are.
- November: - sending out of the letters to the authorities and gathering of more signatures for the petition
- December : - 4th press release published about the results of the fixing phase, possibility of a call for donations after the publication of the results achieved and outlook for DFD.
Any ideas or comments to improve this proposal are welcome!
Best wishes, Matthias