On 23/10/13 00:02, Guido Arnold wrote:
Hello,
(added tdwyt@ to distribution list)
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 01:55:44AM +0200, Guido Arnold wrote:
The first time I heard about it was at FSCONS last year when Sam gave a talk about it. I had a chat with him a few minutes before he sent
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Well, in preparation to my upcoming Fellowship-meeting in Frankfurt, I watched it [2] again and took some notes to save you the <30 minutes.
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If anybody finds time to put this in prose, please share! But the most
It happens to be me who found the time as I wanted to promote this campaign within the edu-team and on the public edu-eu@gnu.org mailing list with a summary of Sam's talk.
Please comment and improve!
thank your very much for your write-up, Guido! written language helps a lot for spreading our message!
Please, If you spread the text make people aware that it is a sum-up of a talk. Else, the text might be confusing.
There are not enough people working on freedom. FSFE wants to find out why and change the situation.
on external mailing lists, please use "Free Software Foundation Europe" (instead of FSFE) when you mention us in a text for the first time, You never know where the text will be spread and the more-widely it will be, the less likely it will be that people know by heart what FSFE is.
Amazing things are happening (occupy, fight against ACTA, etc.) which proof that there are people thinking about their future and *do something* about it. Not just by signing a petition or pressing a "like" button: They go on the streets. That's a hell of a commitment. They are young people, with their careers in front of them, not interested in a world that restricts their future.
We need to engage with these people. We've got tons of info, but we don't reach enough people with what we have. Now we want to try something different.
not sure if this paragraph is needed / helpful
We need students to think first before they invest 3 years (and tuition) on a university to find themselves locked in a proprietary system/knowledge.
It's about rebellion (in a way). The demographic we are aiming at is used to be rebellious. We want to harvest the rebellious spirit a bit.
I don't like the revellious image ... I would leave this paragraph out
That's where theydontwantyou.to comes in.
Its about the people doing the work. We'll see where they want to go. We start the campaign, but we don't own it.
What we have to achieve is ending the tolerance of digital restrictions (which are everywhere). We want to rub them in people's faces, ask them: "What do you think about that? What's your reaction? Are you happy with being treated as a fool, again and again and again? Now you know they don't want you to do this. What do you want to do (about it)?"
We want to change their minds.
This isn't about negative campaigning. It's about people thinking about the negative things they are experiencing. Creating a little space for positive campaigns.
We will provide a different interface to ideas. Very targeted, that doesn't say the same things we already have.
We'll spread already prepared Messages (tweets, dents, ...) once a day to attract attention and lead to the tdwyt page. The messages don't have to be recent. The point is to show how much we have to put up with over time.
this paragraph should be rephrased. "already prepared messages" doesn't sound attractive to me. better like: "beginning with the 4th of November we will send out one message each day (tweets, dents ...) to make people aware of their everyday restrictions.
The look of the website is a little hackerish to make it appear rebellious and just touching base. There are only two ways: "Resist" or "Disobey", that's intentional. From here, just move on!
We will also distribute stickers that may be used for guerilla stickering. They are being distributed to our partner organisations (EFF, Digitale Gesellschaft, Open Rights Group, Association of Polish LUGs) and can be ordered through our website as well.
before you spread the message like this, please let Sam confirm that they are actually our partners
The whole campaign will probably last about 6 weeks. After that, we'll measure our success by the number of participants that end up with us.
So, what you can do now to help is:
- if you have a twitter account, follow @theydontwantyou and retweet the messages that will start coming on Nov 4.
- spread the news into other social networks or other means (no twitter account needed for that)
- look out for similar stories and spread them with #theydontwantyouto
- participate in discussions that may arise from the messages
- order stickers and spread them at universities, etc.
Beste Grüße, Erik