We have a working & tested way to gather support and "signatures" with
online form as was done at openspf.org almost a year ago. It should be
fairly easy to tweak same CGI to allow those interested to show support
for the appeal if James has time to do that.
But I'd suggest this be done independent of the actual appeal and not
a prerequisite to filing and that support "signatures" primarily come
after the appeal has been made.
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Mark Shewmaker wrote:
Julian is filing this appeal "on behalf of the spf project", which I
think is a quicker way of saying that he's filing it on behalf of the
spf council which represents the spf community.
So we're all more or less indirectly/implicitly represented in the appeal,
which brings up a question:
Would it be of any help to additionally be more explicit?
That is, would it help to also quickly ask for and put together a list
of people who support his appeal explicitly?
(I'll volunteer to request and compile a list of names if so.)
Does that make sense, or would that sort of thing detract from the clear
logic of his appeal?
(I also don't know the best logistics of doing this, and Julian, I don't
want to request adding a bunch of in-support-of signatures if you don't
want to do it either.)
However, if both the general consensus as well as Julian's opinion is
that this would be a good idea, I would suggest holding off on the
appeal's "send" button for a few days so as to be able to gather
signatures.
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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net