[geo-discuss] howto access the petition db?

Tue Sep 12 17:24:11 UTC 2006

Benjamin,
you mentioned that you don't have much time this week to send the paper
letters. I can do that if you like.

Just send me the files I need and I will take care about it until
tomorrow evening.

Greets
Malte

Jo Walsh schrieb:

>dear Benjamin,
>On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:36:41PM +0200, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
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>>One idea on how to find people to translate the Open Letter is to find
>>people ho signed the petition and who speaks the languages which are
>>missing (http://publicgeodata.org/Open_Letter_Third_Reading).
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>>Do you know howto have the list of email adresses that matches the
>>missing languages? Jo, Rufus?
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>I can dump this out with a quick SQL select and produce half a dozen
>files, one per country, of addresses who have said it is okay to
>contact them. Can you draft a quick one-paragraph mail asking for
>assistance, providing instructions (one thing to avoid is duplication
>of work - people should create a wiki page *before* they start.)
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>In the meantime, I think it's worthwhile to send a written letter in
>English, we can always send an email/fax followup in local language
>later. And ekk, we'd need to have volunteers to explain the responses.
>
>Malte has kindly taken on a lot of the contacting this week; I'm
>running around at FOSS4G all week but can do bits of systems stuff.
>
>cheers,
>
>
>jo
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