Hello Maƫlle,
* Maelle Costa maelle@fsfe.org [2010-09-29 17:19:15 +0200]:
Notes for the letter:
- The letter is too long. It also starts a bit boring... so people might not read it until the end.
I agree, I really have to work on my synthesis skills...
As most of us have to do constantly :)
HOwever, I took the example of the Open letter there : http://www.fsfe.org/projects/browserbundling/letter-20091005.en.html
I have no online access at the moment, but just because we send out long letters in the past, does not mean we have to repeat it ;)
And it is exactly as long, and I thought that perhaps it would make sense to have both : a long letter online, as a manifesto, and a short version sent out.
What would be the advantage of that?
My reasoning for shorter version is: We want other people and groups to use our template and contact the institutions. So they might also want to add a paragraph from their own with some addition information. The more they have to shorten / modify it themselves, the more work for them. We want to make it easy for them.
- Explain Open Standards and that it should not be necessary to have commercials for PDFs.
How do you mean that ? that you don't have to have commercials for standards ? Or that there should be an open competition for it is a standard and all are equally able to deal with it ?
Government should not have to do adverstisment for a standard. They should use formats and protocols which are widely used. Do governments recommend browsers on their website (I hope this is not the case any more)?
A good standard should enable competition. If you use a standard and than do advertisement for one company this is +1-1 :)
- We should aim to make the campaign page text shorter.
In my view of the next campaign page, we would have the most circumstancial explanations there to counter all the criticisms that we have recieved per mail. For me it is the very place where we can explain our vision of the advertisings, of the role of government for free competition and the role of Free Software for society, so it would be in that sens more harmful to have a short but incomplete page rather than a long one... HOwever, the length of it makes it perhaps unclear.
I agree that we should address all the critisms we got. So let's work on that and try to make it as clear, well structured and precise as possible.
Regards, Matthias