📧 Where and how to send the letter?

[pakastin]

• Who should we send the letter to? CEO, CTO, ..?
• How sould we send the letter? Via email, post it oldskool, make a video, via social media..?

[ghost]

Well, the letter (as how it is now) won't impact if sent by one person only. First we need to fix that. We need to decide whether if it's going to be an old school email letter raid (like BattleForTheNet) or just one letter that really shows why we need open-sourced Flash.

That's the important thing. They won't just open-source Flash because someone sent a letter asking for it, we need to specify in details the why, why does this petition exist, why do we need an open-source Flash and why do we care so much about it.

Now, to who? That'd need to be decided when this letter is absolutely done. This letter will be for Adobe in general, after all.

[ROBERT-MCDOWELL]

I don't think send a letter will change anything and btw it's a kind of santa klaus game. The best we can do is change anything ourselves without their agreement. They very know what they are doing, and for sure a smile will be their answer.
Maybe we should motivate other countries where brilliant developers just want to change things like us, Russia, China, Japan, India, Pakistan and so on. the power of unity is in our hands

[ghost]

I don't think a letter will change anything

Well, it does. As a group, as one person, a letter does change everything. Almost all of the open-sourced material from companies like Microsoft and Apple were open-sourced thanks to letters (the majority being one or two detailed letters only). As I mentioned before, BattleForTheNet sent more than two million individual personal letters to the FCC to save the internet, and look at us now.

We can do this with a letter (or more). It is very possible. There is no need to do something that breaks Adobe's terms and conditions just to call their attention. That'll bring them not in a "bright mood". We just need to be calm. And Flash is going to be dead for around 2020, too. If this doesn't work, or we just don't call their attention, we'll find another way. We have three years to do this, and this is our first try.

[PippoApps]

How about an online petition? If well written might get momentum.

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On 06/08/17 18:20, Sebastián Rojas wrote: Well, the letter (as how it is now) won't impact if sent by one person only. First we need to fix that. We need to decide whether if it's going to be an old school email letter raid (like BattleForTheNet) or just one letter that really shows /*why*/ we need open-sourced Flash. That's the important thing. They won't just open-source Flash because someone sent a letter asking for it, we need to specify in details the *why*, *why* does this petition exist, *why* do we need an open-source Flash and *why* do we care so much about it. Now, to who? That'd need to be decided when this letter is absolutely done. This letter /will be for Adobe in general/, after all. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#73 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/Aca0lE17zxmiliWorgbqIc1fQvl8T5CGks5sVefkgaJpZM4OuqJM>.

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[ghost]

How about an online petition? If well written might get momentum.

Yes, this could work and get momentum. But we need to consider every factor that could affect this - and this is why I'm gonna recommend using Gitter to organize this. It'd be a great form of constant communication for this petition, and a quicker too. I don't know if @pakastin agrees, I'm gonna add a pull request for this.

[pakastin]

Good idea, added Gitter! ;)

[wordigirl]

We should send the letter on all mediums to make sure our voice is heard: email, "old school", and online petitions. We need the world to scream loud and clear what we want so that it will be inevitable that they see.

[ghost]

Also we need to try to get in contact with nielsen and try to get them to release their whole ad relevance database to the public. They have tons of banner ads in their database.

[resynth1943]

I couldn't just go past this:

As a group, as one person, a letter does change everything.
As I mentioned before, BattleForTheNet sent more than two million individual personal letters to the FCC to save the internet, and look at us now.

Yes, look at us now. Without net neutrality.

[Brian151]

yeah, pretty much...

still, it's worth a shot, especially if we word it just right. we're at least not dealing with the US government...

[resynth1943]

True, it's still worth a shot, but don't get your hopes up. It would definitely be nice to have a version of Flash we can use for legacy games that still haven't transitioned to the <canvas> API though. I can see why this is a good idea.

[Brian151]

many games just flat-out can't be converted to HTML5...
or, not very nicely...

and the vast majority simply never will