= PDFReaders tasks =

There are some manual tasks that need to be done regularly, mainly add
the petition signatures to our list[1], and subscribe people willing to
our newsletter.

1. http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.html


== Petition signatures ==

Signatures to the PDFReaders petition come in via the our mailing list:
  pdfreaders@lists.fsfe.org

To help you deal with these mails coming in, we have written a little
script that extracts relevant information and creates handy files.

To use it, extract PDFReaders-script.zip to anywhere (once), and for
each batch of emails, follow this procedure:

1. export the new emails named "[PDFReaders] petition signature" to
  _text files_*, save the files in the PDFReaders-script/data-pdfreaders-mails
  folder

2. execute (double click) script.py

3. in the "res" folder that the script created, you will find following
  files:
  
  3a. PDFReaders-script/res/petition.txt
    This file gives you a list of prepared signatories names. You need
    to add these lines to the /campaigns/pdfreaders/petition-sig.en.xml
    file in the fsfe-web svn repository (in the corresponding section,
    that is between <isig>���</isig> for individuals).
    The names order within petition-sig.en.xml is not important.
  
  3b. PDFReaders-script/res/nl/nl.**.xml
    These files contain lists of email addresses of persons who wish to
    subscribe our newsletter. ** is the language, xx being unknown (thus
    English).
    You need to add these addresses to the corresponding newsletter-**
    mailing lists, visit
      https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/admin/newsletter-**/members/add
    to this end.


* In Thunderbird, this is best done with the "ImportExportTools" addon
    http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
  and then right-clicking on a selection of mails: "Save selected
  messages", "TXT Format"