ActivismHowTo

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Include(LoCoMenuHeader) Lobbying your local governments, whether it be at the town/city, state, or feral level, to adopt Ubuntu, Linux, Free Software, and Open Document Formats, especially for schools, can be one of the single most effective and powerful things your LoCo team can do.

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Resources

Please use these resources to help create a customized how to lobby government guide specifically for Ubuntu, GNU/Linux, Free Software, and Open Document Formats. (We do not necessarily agree with any of the organizations, these inks are just resources to use on how to lobby government)

http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/activist.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_2123770_lobby-state-government.html
http://action.aclu.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AP_effective_activism
Feel free to add more useful links

What to include

General Guidelines
Research
- Who to contact?
Preparation
Meeting with officials
Pages to link from
- LoCoHowTo
- ContributeToUbuntu

More possibilities

Writing letters
Petitions
Press and Media
Finding FLOSS friendly people within the government

Ideas

Ideas (Please append @SIG@ to the end of your comment):

Is there a better name for this page? It may end up going beyond just talking about lobbying government. -- Dpic DateTime(2008-01-31T01:49:32Z)
- Possibly LoCoAdvocacy or LoCoActivism ? -- Dpic DateTime(2008-01-31T02:25:36Z)
  - LoCoGovernmentAdvocacy -- MatthiasUrlichs DateTime(2008-01-31T10:16:00Z)
    - I think that LoCoActivism is better because activism is in a great part is government advocacy and lobbying but also getting press and media attention and activism is more specific than advocacy which is something that all LoCos do. -- Dpic DateTime(2008-01-31T18:05:56Z)

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    * I think that LoCoActivism is better because activism is in a great part is government advocacy and lobbying but also getting press and media attention and activism is more specific than advocacy which is something that all LoCos do. -- Dpic [[DateTime(2008-01-31T18:05:56Z)]]