hi,
it would indeed be interesting to do a quick, friendly PR here. This week, if possible.
Something like (quick and dirty draft):
South Tyrol moves to improve user's software freedom
In response to FSFE's pdfreaders campaign, the Italian region of South Tyrol is now pointing visitors to its website to Free Software PDF readers.
The change was announced by [FIXME: title] the region's head of IT, Kurt Pöhl, during the SFScon conference which took place last week in Bolzano, the region's capital.
[Quote Matthias]
[1-2 sentences on campaign]
[Quote Maëlle]
Done :-)
Best regards, Karsten
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:35:06 +0100 From: Patrick Ohnewein patrick.ohnewein@fsfeurope.org To: FSFE Team team@fsfeurope.org Subject: PDFReaders: First results in South Tyrol User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100623)
Hi team!
I just wanted you to know, that thanks to the discussions we started with the South Tyrolean government, after the open letters by LUGBZ and FSFE, the LUGBZ has proposed some first actions and the government has adopted the use of the PDFReaders banner on the gov sites:
http://www.provinz.bz.it/lpa/themen/publikationen.asp
I think this is a first step and should be in some way used as a good practice on how the government opens a constructive discussion with the Free Software community.
Would be nice to push a little bit on the press. Could be helpful as support for the development in South Tyrol and on the other hand I guess could been seen as an example to follow by other governments.
What do you think about it?
Happy hacking! Patrick
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Hi
On 11/17/2010 01:50 PM, Karsten Gerloff wrote:
hi,
it would indeed be interesting to do a quick, friendly PR here. This week, if possible.
Something like (quick and dirty draft):
We have had several solved bugs, namely more than the half of Croatian ones, do we focus the PR onSouth Tirol or include other Infos ? (some other italian institutions also changed...)
Furthermore, the Swiss team asked whtether it would be possible to have a oint PR with Wilhelm Tux to press the Swiss authorities to react (problem is that we don't have specific press contacts in Switzerland...)
I'll try to have a look at the PR today, and send my comments on the draft :)
Best
Maëlle
Hi Maëlle,
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:59:05PM +0100, Maelle Costa wrote:
Hi
On 11/17/2010 01:50 PM, Karsten Gerloff wrote:
hi,
it would indeed be interesting to do a quick, friendly PR here. This week, if possible.
Something like (quick and dirty draft):
We have had several solved bugs, namely more than the half of Croatian ones, do we focus the PR onSouth Tirol or include other Infos ? (some other italian institutions also changed...)
We could include that in the [about the campaign] paragraph, by saying something like [FIXME: one sentence explaining what the campaign is about] Across Europe, public authorities are reacting to the campaign. In Croatia, more than half of the websites reported have already been fixed. [FIXME: insert country B, C]
Furthermore, the Swiss team asked whtether it would be possible to have a oint PR with Wilhelm Tux to press the Swiss authorities to react (problem is that we don't have specific press contacts in Switzerland...)
We don't, but Wilhelm Tux does. Plus we know people who have those contacts.
Let me know when you start drafting, and I'll put you in touch with Matthias Stuermer at /ch/open.
I'll try to have a look at the PR today, and send my comments on the draft :)
thanks!
Best regards, Karsten
Hi Karsten
On 11/17/2010 02:36 PM, Karsten Gerloff wrote:
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:59:05PM +0100, Maelle Costa wrote:
On 11/17/2010 01:50 PM, Karsten Gerloff wrote:
it would indeed be interesting to do a quick, friendly PR here. This week, if possible.
Something like (quick and dirty draft):
As announced earlier, here comes my first contribution to the draft (news-20101118-01.en.xhtml).
I don't know how to deal with the suggested quotes, nor what they have to be about so for now, I have left them blank.
As I told Karsten earlier, the Italian version of the site has not been changed, so I contacted Patrick and Daniele Gobetti to see if we can have it changed quickly.
(problem is that we don't have specific press contacts in Switzerland...)
We don't, but Wilhelm Tux does. Plus we know people who have those contacts.
OK then. Last time I discussed with some of the Swiss list, they asked if we had contacts because they didn't, that's why I was asking, but if we have contacts otherwise, that's for the better ;)
Let me know when you start drafting, and I'll put you in touch with Matthias Stuermer at /ch/open.
I've just tried to draw a basic structure for it (attached). I think that the goal of this PR would basically be to put some pressure on the institutions to have them react.
Best regards
Thanks for the great work, Maëlle! Its really going great.
Hi again,
On 11/17/2010 04:50 PM, Maelle Costa wrote:
As I told Karsten earlier, the Italian version of the site has not been changed, so I contacted Patrick and Daniele Gobetti to see if we can have it changed quickly.
The South Tyrol region has kindly asked us to provide all the links where we find the advertisement and promised to changed all of them.
Since this morning, we also have one bug fixed in Belgium, we can add it on the PR.
Best
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:58:59AM +0100, Maelle Costa wrote:
Hi again,
On 11/17/2010 04:50 PM, Maelle Costa wrote:
As I told Karsten earlier, the Italian version of the site has not been changed, so I contacted Patrick and Daniele Gobetti to see if we can have it changed quickly.
The South Tyrol region has kindly asked us to provide all the links where we find the advertisement and promised to changed all of them.
nice! Almost exemplary, actually. (I'd prefer if they checked their website for themselves, but hey.)
Since this morning, we also have one bug fixed in Belgium, we can add it on the PR.
Very good.
Best regards, Karsten
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:58:59AM +0100, Maelle Costa wrote:
Hi again,
On 11/17/2010 04:50 PM, Maelle Costa wrote:
As I told Karsten earlier, the Italian version of the site has not been changed, so I contacted Patrick and Daniele Gobetti to see if we can have it changed quickly.
The South Tyrol region has kindly asked us to provide all the links where we find the advertisement and promised to changed all of them.
I'd suggest waiting with the PR until the South Tyrol website is fully fixed. That would definitely set them apart from others and explain why we pick them for a PR over others.
Best regards, Karsten