[okfn-help] Re: [geo-discuss] Petition for open geo data in all the 27 member states?

Sat Mar 24 16:32:35 GMT 2007

Jo Walsh wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:50:25PM +0000, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>> http://www.okfn.org/geo/manifesto.php
>>
>> We also need to sort out the petition software (or use some standard 
>> petition service) as we've had to take down 
>> http://petition.publicgeodata.org/ 
> 
> Yesterday i tried to replace the apache2 config in
> /home/okfn/svn-okfn/trunk/etc/petition.publicgeodata.org just to put a flat file
> in that directory, saying 'thanks' and pointing back to the main site. 
> 
> When i restarted apache though, nothing changed. What am i missing? 
> I don't recall having to commit anything in order to propagate changes
> before... I think i need a second pair of eyes.

Works for me (and worked for me yesterday when I first looked ...), i.e. 
can see a nice shiny page saying thank you with the banner logo etc etc

> (Using an external petition service for Benjamin's pan-Euro round of
> 'publicgeodata manifesto' would be a good idea. Is there a decent one?)

Not sure. Probably would like to keep the main page on our system (so 
that the link juice comes there) and then point from that to the 
petition page elsewhere.

[snip]

~rufus