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<title>PDFreaders - Sprint Guide</title>
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<p id="category"><a href="pdfreaders.html">Free Software PDF Readers</a></p>
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<h1>PDF Readers Sprint Guide</h1>
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<h2>Equipment</h2>
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<h3>Required</h3>
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<li>Web-enabled computers, one per attendee, for finding adverts online</li>
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<li>GNU/Linux compatible printer (capable of printing envelopes) check whether
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you need letters to include the envelope as the first page of the .odt document,
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or whether you need the letters and envelopes to be separate documents from the
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letter, for easier printing</li>
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<li>Sufficient ink to print a letter and envelope for each 'bug'</li>
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<li>Printer paper</li>
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<li>Envelopes</li>
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<li>Access to whatever email account or mailing list that reported bugs are sent
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to</li>
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<li>Working script for processing email reports generated by web form (available
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in FSFE's <a href="https://fsfe.org/contribute/web/web.html">web SVN</a>)</li>
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<li>Template ODT letter adapted to your local contact details and language (in SVN)</li>
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<li>Approved expense request, or agreement with country team coordinator to cover
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postage costs</li>
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<h3>Desirable</h3>
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<li>Refreshments for attendees</li>
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<li>Projector for showing examples of adverts, demonstrating bug reporting
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page, and projecting identi.ca / chat room feed for remote participants</li>
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<li>A small prize for the person who finds the most adverts (eg. box of
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chocolates)</li>
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<li>FSFE leaflets and booth materials for promoting FSFE to attendees</li>
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<li>Assistance transporting materials to the event venue</li>
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<li>A list or directory of websites of local councils in your country / area for
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attendees to work through (this makes hunting faster)</li>
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<li>Speakers for background music</li>
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<li>Playlist of Creative Commons music</li>
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<h2>Activities</h2>
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<p>Assemble a group of Free Software activists and:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Find adverts for proprietary PDF readers on government websites in your
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country/area</li>
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<li>Send letters to the institutions responsible asking them to remove or
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replace the adverts</li>
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<li>A model letter can be found on the PDF Readers campaign page, and another in
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web SVN (see above). You can modify the letter for easier printing, or to make it more
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relevant to your country/area.</li>
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<p>Don't forget to microblog about what you're doing, and use the #pdfreaders tag
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when you do so. You may also want to use tags like #openstandards or #opengov.</p>
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<h2>Optional</h2>
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<li>Publish a press release in the run up to the event (ask your country
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coordinator about access to your national/regional FSFE press contacts list)</li>
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<li>Organise an interview with local radio or podcast in the run up to the event</li>
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<li>Send a copy of petition signatures from people in your country/area in
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addition to the letter regarding the specific bug to each institution (more costly
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in terms of paper and postage)</li>
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<li>Email the institutions a copy of the printed letter and optional list of
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signatures</li>
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<li>Send follow up letters to institutions that have been contacted in the past
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and failed to comply</li>
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<h2>Note on scripts</h2>
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<p>A PHP script is available in the web SVN which generates .odt files directly from the XML
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bug reports which are generated by the web form on the PDF Readers campaign page. See readme
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file located with the script for additional instructions. This script is designed to be easy
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to set up and use (send feedback to web@lists.fsfe.org mailing list).</p>
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<timestamp>$Date: 2011-10-11 13:30:29 +0200 (Fri, 15 Oct 2010) $ $Author: st $</timestamp>
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