[infrastructure] [FINAL] Letter to Founders

[Terri Molini]

Gunnar,

this looks terrific! I've made a few edits (in red below) to the letter 
to reflect the call to action. If they are receiving an email they have 
an account. They now need to get a password to get further access to the 
site.

The infrastructure is now in place for the 
osa-founding-announce at opensourceforamerica.org

Best,
Terri

Gunnar Hellekson wrote:
> Friends --
>
> Now that the letter to the board has been sent, we're planning to send
> this tomorrow morning to the founders, from the "working-groups@" email 
> address.
>
> Infrastructure, please review to ensure we have everything in
> place. Working Group, please ensure that we're on-message with the call
> to action, tone, etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
> g
>
> # # #
>
> Friends and Founders --
>
> Like you, we're thrilled that the free and open source software
> movement can now speak to US government with a unified voice. It's
> gratifying to see the principles of the free and open source software
> movement embraced by such a broad constituency. The announcement on
> July 22 was well received. At the site, you can see the overwhelmingly
> positive media coverage following our official launch at OSCON 2009:
>
>    http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/news-and-events/coverage
>
> Membership is now well over 1200 individuals and organizations.
>
> But we can't rest on our launch laurels. As founders, we have work to do.
>
>
>
>
> The next step is to organize this new, large community. As some of you already know, we are setting up working groups for specific technology areas. We have set up the website on a wiki and with a "members only" section, and expect to soon begin leveraging the site for open collaboration among the members of these working groups. *
>
> We have pre-registered you but you will need to reset your passwords **(your email is your user name)**,
> do that by clicking here:  http://opensourceforamerica.org/reset-password*
>
> In some cases, these working groups align with the Obama
> Administration's priorities. In other cases, we have already
> identified strong advocates for a particular issue. We'll no doubt be
> adding and changing groups based on their performance and support over
> time. At the moment, we've recognized the following areas:
>
> 1. Healthcare
> 2. Energy and Transportation
> 3. Education
> 4. Military
> 5. Acquisitions & Competition
> 6. State and Local
> 7. Cybersecurity
> 8. Transparency
> 9. Voting and Elections Technology
> 10. Geospatial Technology
>
> Wherever possible, these groups should reach out to organizations that
> are already working in these spaces and are sympathetic to our cause.
> The intent is to leverage the work of others, not to create
> unnecessary or redundant organizations.
>   
* <http://opensourceforamerica.org/reset-password>*

> If you or your organization are interested in a committee or chairmanship on any of these working groups, please send a note to working-groups at opensourceforamerica.org. Be sure to include the contact information for those who will be participating and ask them to register on the site. 
>
> Once we have committees assembled for each working group, we'll be
> reaching out to the general members and asking them to sign up for the working
> group mailing lists. From there, it's up to the working group
> committees to cultivate their particular policy area. The Steering
> Committee will provide guidance on specific deliverables and
> expectations.
>
> There's never been a US Administration so sympathetic to free and open
> source software. There's never been so many citizens with the same
> enthusiasm for the open source process. This is an unprecedented
> opportunity to profoundly change the way our government uses and
> understands software. We can fundamentally change how this country
> works.
>
> Let's get started.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Open Source for America Steering Committee
>   
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Terri Molini
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