Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

[Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com>]

I have now asked the board to take a decision in this matter.

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Oliver Propst <oliver propst gmail com> wrote:
> Hi, its great to see the all the activities around the upcoming Board
> election, I hope we still are able to focus on day-today things.
>
> There is right now a campaign, Reset the Net [1] about remind people
> about government surveillance and the the importance of privacy on June
> 5 [2], one year after the NSA/Snowden revelations.
>
> Some participants include: Demand progress, Freepress.net, Free
> Software Foundation, Open Technology Institute, Reddit and
> Duck Duck Go.
>
> With our commitment to privacy and recently improved tools in this
> area (the new privacy setting panel and new privacy
> features in Web for exemple) [3] I think its makes sense for GNOME to
> participate.
>
> This would include:
> Display a banner on GNOME.org, 5 June with link to
> https://www.resetthenet.org/
> Promote our participation on the campaign website
> Promote our our participation  and our work in this area in our own
> channels (gnome.org och twitter).
>
> On the last Engagement Team Meeting [4] we agreed that this something
> interesting. What do you foundation members think?  If there is no
> serious concerns I plan to ask the Board for approval.
>
>
> 1 https://www.resetthenet.org/
> 2http://resetthenet.tumblr.com/?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0MzA3MDcxLGVtYWlsaWQ9NzU1MQ==
> 3 https://www.resetthenet.org/#add-yourself
> 4 https://etherpad.gnome.org/p/etm-2014-05-08



-- 
-mvh Oliver Propst