nickchomey
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8 months ago I like this a lot - reducing friction is the key to getting people to take new actions.
As for an automated form vs manual copy/print, surely there should be the manual template available. And I'm skeptical about the value of an email form - all emails would be sent from the OWA email address, perhaps 2ith the user email cc'd.
I also wonder about the potential impact of many individual letters sent versus one that is co-signed by many. If the latter, would something like change.org be useful at all to create many country-specific petitions? Surely they have little effect on their own, but if coupled with a marketing/media "get out the vote" effort to get some attention and coverage, it could be helpful.
Whatever the medium, it would be probably useful to define the following
- which countries/jurisdictions OWA cares about most
- who within the jurisdiction to contact - Elected members of government (and at which level) vs a governing body/regulator within the country. If the latter, what are the specific regulators and their contact info
- what the letter should say. And if it should be the same for each jurisdiction or (probably better) customized to their particular laws and ongoing efforts/issues
I also wonder if it could be framed as a sort of UN Human Rights sort of thing rather than just competition? As you all know quite well, reduced browser choice leads to developers favoring native apps over (progressive) web apps, which can lead to enormous exclusion. Such a framing could both open up more targets/allies (eg the UN and other human rights orgs), as well as add a stronger pathos argument to the existing ethos and logos ones.
libreom
Type of Change
Summary
Check this out: https://www.mysociety.org/wehelpyou/contact-your-mp/
What would be useful is if we could create a form in this style to help people more readily contact their representative. Obviously, this is a little trickier than the mysociety one (it's UK only) because of the global nature of the work, but we could potentially only use it during specific drives, targeted to specific countries as and when we need it.
An MVP of this would simply be to publish a standard letter template on the /get-involved page with links to existing sites to lookup who to send it to in each region currently being targeted, that people can copy and send themselves via email or snail mail.