Free Software Mailing to MPs

[Christopher Browne]

Saw this on the Ottawa LUG list...

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Subject: [oclug-announce] mailout to all 308 MPs
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:52:03 -0400
From: "Brenda J. Butler" <bjb-J4oS66wZXds at public.gmane.org>
To: oclug-announce-pwPoLXtpye8KqIKEdFucNfd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org

Gosling www.goslingcommunity.org has organized a mailout
of some info packages on Free and Open Source Software
to all 308 Members of Parliament in the federal government.

Included (that I know of, so far) are 2 CDs of Linux
distros and some flyers, as well as URLs for them to get
more information.  This was sent out last Friday.

If you want to help, please contact your Federal Member
of Parliament and ask them about their opinion on this
package.

That act alone (writing the MP's once, before or as
they get their package) may mean that a lot more MP's
(or their staff) actually look at the packages and
read them.

If the OCLUG members also follow up afterwards with their
MPs and answer any questions they might have, or demonstrate
some software, or whatever, that would be even nicer.

My email to my MP went out just now.  The more constituents
who send a message to an MP, the more seriously that MP
will take the message.

cheerio,
bjb
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It would be most interesting for some GTA-based MPs to hear from their
constituents, too...
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