NETBOOK PRO petition is online

[diem]

Okay then folks, the deed is done.

Browse on over to:

http://www.petitiononline.com/nbookpro/petition.html

to sign the petition, and tell all your Psion-owning friends (and your boss) to do the same! The more companies (rather than individuals) sign it the more weight it will have. Please also take the time to answer the extra questions I've added to the end of the petition.

Also please allow some time (a couple of weeks?) to pass before informing any Psion staff you may be in contact with; the larger the list of signatories then the greater the impact it will have on first reading.

Thanks all

[comical_ali]

Once again, triffic job YAN.

Karl

[ktkawabe]

Thanks yan, here's my Japanese translation of the petition:
http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/~ktkawabe/index.html

[netBookBabe]

Brilliant, Keita, thanks for providing the translation! :)

Julie

[markdeppe]

Excellent Yan. For those who do note it is possible to write more than just "yes" in the boxes (If I had know this I would have written more and I can not see a feature to edit my entry unfortunatly.)

Great to see that translations are available, gives a more global feel to it

[hochi]

Hi,

way be I'm stupid, but how could anyone see the signatures? I understand that email adresses are not shown but why is the whole list with names and answers not online?

Or is it just me??

Thanks,
Sebastian

[ktkawabe]

Hi Sebastian, it's here
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?nbookpro&1
The link is actually in "View signatures: nn" where nn is some integer. Just click the number.

[ktkawabe]

Moderators,
Please post about the petition together with some background information in other forums (like Revo, Series5, 5mx etc.), preferably as a sticky. It's unlikely that people who don't own netBook are checking this netBook forum.

Cheers,
Keita

[netBookBabe]

Keita

That's a very good point, thanks for raising it. We don't normally permit cross-posting but I think this is a special case. :)

I'll see what we can do.

Julie

[diem]

Originally posted by hochi
I understand that email adresses are not shown but why is the whole list with names and answers not online?
There is a link on the page to view the signature list - granted its not exactly obvious!

[RvB]

Thanks for a job very well done!

I just can not live without my EPOC Netbook, Series 7, etc. from Psion. I really hope it will work out for all of us.

Regards, RvB

[hochi]

Hi Diem and ktkawabe,

There is a link on the page to view the signature list - granted its not exactly obvious!
it's here
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_p....cgi?nbookpro&1
The link is actually in "View signatures: nn" where nn is some integer. Just click the number.
Yes I'm aware of this page but, it shows me just the number of signatures and NOT the people who have sign.:confused:

To ilustrate this have a look at this (http://www.hochstetter-im-web.de/petition.jpg). Is it normal??

Thanks,
Sebastian

[Mobilix]

PsionWelt ist online with the german translation of the three questions - good luck und many entries from our community too!

Ciao
Thomas
Psionwelt.net
Mobile2Day.net

P.S.: To Sebi: Thanks for the early info in our forum.
To your screenshot: as already mentioned here, you have to click on the small numbers - 60 and 10 in your case!

[hochi]

Hi Thomas,
To your screenshot: as already mentioned here, you have to click on the small numbers - 60 and 10 in your case!
Yes, yes!! But this has no result either. But in my case it was the Firewall software. :rolleyes: I have to disable it to see the signatures.

And sorry for signing 3 times. This was in error, as I didn't see the list. Diem can you edit this?:confused:

Bye,
Sebastian

[Stargazer]

Originally posted by diem
Also please allow some time (a couple of weeks?) to pass before informing any Psion staff you may be in contact with; Hmmm..should this apply also to mentioning your petition to news sites like The Inquirer (www.theinquirer.net), The Register (www.theregister.co.uk) or Slashdot (slashdot.org)?

[bobm22000]

Excellent, Diem, very many thanks to you for all your effort that has gone into this petition, thanks too to the fellow moderators and to all the other supporters.
I am sure that this input will be carefully considered and let us hope for a positive result.

Best regards,

Bob :)

[diem]

Originally posted by Stargazer
Hmmm..should this apply also to mentioning your petition to news sites like The Inquirer (www.theinquirer.net), The Register (www.theregister.co.uk) or Slashdot (slashdot.org)?
Indeed it does, though please feel free to do so in a couple of weeks!

[ktkawabe]

Hi Julie and moderators,
There're things yet to be done to make the visibility of petition higher, I think: Submitting news items to news portal sites.

If you haven't done that already, would you please post the news to the PDA street (not this forum, but the news portal part of the site)?
http://www.pdastreet.com/newssubmit.html

Of course I can do that myself if it helps, but I guess you have some connection with them and thus it's likely that you are thought to be more credible than I am.

I've submitted a news for headline of www.symbcity.com (thanks Julie for posting to the forum!) and www.allaboutsymbian.com.

At the moment I don't have time to do anything further, but it would be very nice of you if you list suitable news sites and volunteer to post if possible at all. I'll be back this evening.

Cheers,
Keita

[ktkawabe]

Hi Yan, I've noticed that the petition body has broken URI:The following is a distillation of a long discussion in the forums on the PsionPlace website (see http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/sho...&threadid=18259), representing the views of a vast cross-section of users from many countries around the globe. It's difficult for the readers to find this forum and read the discussions. It would be nice if you can make some correction (if possible).
Cheers,
Keita

[diem]

Hi folks,

I know there's a couple of things wrong with the petition text, unfortunately once its posted it cannot be edited - sorry.

[diem]

Originally posted by ktkawabe
Hi Julie and moderators,
Julie and moderators? Julie is a moderator Keita! ;)

[netBookBabe]

I'm sure that Keita meant "Julie and other moderators", yan :D

Keita - yes you are right about raising the profile of the petition yet further. I'm just struggling a bit for spare time at the moment, but I will try to get some references to it into other areas of the message boards later today.

Julie

[albaker]

I hope I am not too late to say that on behalf of Malaysia's Symbian Usergroup (www.mysymbianusers.com), we fully support this petition and really looking forward to see Symbian OS running on netBook Pro.

To all Moderators here, keep the flame burning. Good job guys!!!

Al-baker
Founder / Director
Malaysia's Symbian Usergroup
www.mysymbianusers.com
admin@mysymbianusers.com

[netBookBabe]

NEVER too late, Al. Thank you very much! :D

Julie

[ktkawabe]

Hi yan,Julie and moderators? Julie is a moderator Keita! Arghhh. Believe me, Julie's merciful interpretation is actually quite correct :)

[ktkawabe]

Well I tried the register. Probably several people contacting them about the same topic would help, so if you have time please send your story to them.

On www.allaboutsymbian.com, I thought that I saw a news item featured on their page (submitted by somebody else) in the afternoon and I was quite satisfied, but now I cannot see it any more. Strange.

Cheers,
Keita

[petitluc]

Hi all,

and thanks Y a n again for this great job !

I saw it, I signed it and transmited it (is that correct english ?) to this french forum :
http://www.pocketpcfrance.info/forums/ViewTopic.asp?ForumID=10&PostID=18345

Hope it can help, though the forum is not very active and french netBook users don't seem to be a lot...

regards,

Luc

[ktkawabe]

Hi all,
I tried these:
www.theregister.com, www.pdageek.com, www.symbcity.com, www.allaboutsymbian.com, www.googol.net, www.symbianblast.com.

Up to now only symbianblast is featuring the petition :( , though symbcity is going to follow I believe.

Cheers,
Keita

(URIs edited by me myself)

[Craggy]

I assume that you mean the font of daily IT knowledge that we all know and love... http://www.theregister.co.uk, rather than .com :)

[diem]

Well you can all give yourselves a big old pat on the back - on Wednesday our petition was in the top 25 at www.petitiononline.com :cool:

Over 500 signatures and counting...

[netBookBabe]

Originally posted by diem
Well you can all give yourselves a big old pat on the back - on Wednesday our petition was in the top 25 at www.petitiononline.com :cool: Nice work everyone. :)

Thanks for all the support so far, and if you haven't yet signed, just click on yan's link and get to it - it only takes a minute!

(Hey, I'm a girl - it's my job to nag!) :D

Julie

[Stargazer]

Originally posted by netBookBabe
(Hey, I'm a girl - it's my job to nag!) :DNice to see a professional at work here, NetBookBabe! :D

[netBookBabe]

Well, I DO like to take my work seriously, Stargazer! :D

Julie

[ktkawabe]

Hello Craig,I assume that you mean the font of daily IT knowledge that we all know and love... http://www.theregister.co.uk, rather than .com :)Actually www.theregister.com and www.theregister.co.uk are the same thing. But thanks for pointing that out anyway, .com name surely lacks the strange feeling of British twist :D

[cangiante]

I have just had a look at the petition signatures and found a number of 612.

Personally, I am extremely glad of the results and I would invite everybody - also those just having a revo or a 5mx/mc218 - to give this petition a chance.

In fact, I do strongly believe that the more we will able to show how really vital the International Psion community is, the more chances we will have in seeing future development for our beloved machines.

The outstanding work performed by Yan (AKA Diem) included one innovative possibility: giving a third party the opportunity to take over a job which P/T - perhaps I actually do not know - may not be willing to do.

A more marketing-oriented third party may fully understand the potential of symbianboosting other smaller machines and therefore - who knows - a Symbian ER7 (Psionbrandless) netBook may establish a bridgehead for further operations. In this context, even smaller versions of the nB pro may be issued with ER 7 (perhaps a kind of a new coloured 5mx or maybe even a new sort of revo) .

Often reality goes further than fantasy: could this be the case?


This is why I think that the petition should be furtherly promoted among 5mx/mc218 and revo users.

Therefore, I encourage our moderators to evaluate to do so as well as keeping up the very good work.

BTW, thanks everybody for being committed to this subject.

cheers

gianluca

[hochi]

Hi,

just a short reply to inform you that I just send a email to my contact at one of the biggest German computer magazines: c't (http://www.heise.de). Hope they will write a short news about netBook Pro and our petition.

bye,
Sebastian

[cangiante]

Hello Everybody!

I wish I could thank Martin for the great commitment in supporting the petition on allaboutsymbian forum.
here's the actual link:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13790

I am sure you will join me in keeping on spreading the word of the petition as well as supporting it in full

cheers

gianluca

[MonkeyBoy]

Some more good news, I mailed Alasdair Bailey who writes the Symbian Shopper column in 'Computer Shopper' about the new netBook PRO and the Symbian 7 OS petition. Heres the reply:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks for the tip-off, it certainly makes interesting reading >doesn't it? The column for the September issue had to go off >down to london today so I included a mention of the petition >but couldn't really write very much about the machine because >there's nothing about it on Psion Teklogix's site at the moment >and I couldn't get hold of anyone there to quiz on the subject. >Rest assured though I'll track down my press contact and get a >comment you can use on the website forum too. Have you had >any word from Psion Teklogix? They're likely to be very vague on >details particularly if it's not been announced on their website >yet.
>
>I'll keep you posted. The mention of the petition will be in the >mag out end of July.
>
>Cheers,
>a

Hopefully this will help us rustle up a bit more interest and a few more signatures!

[netBookBabe]

Nice work, MonkeyBoy, and excellent news! By coincidence, I have just taken out a trial subscription to Computer Shopper, so I shall look forward to receiving it even more now. :)

Julie

[MartinMaxwell]

700 signatures as of just now, though I saw a few - but not many - multiples.

And the quality of the people signing is notable. There are also lots of people from Symbian OS software houses there, as well as from Psion Teklogix system integrators and distributors. That is a good sign.

[MartinMaxwell]

Oops. It's now 800.

[wanman]

Just added my sig. 838 now !!

[netBookBabe]

Originally posted by wanman
Just added my sig... I was beginning to wonder, Si! ;) ;) :D

Julie

[wanman]

Ahh, been out of the loop for a while. Taken a few days to catch up on new posts !! lol

[cangiante]

thanks to Keita's effort here is another site mentioning our petition:

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Jun/bpd20030613020403.htm

I hope that other websites will follow in a near future...

cheers

gianluca

[albaker]

Dear all,

As a small contribution, I promoted the Symbian OS netBook petition in several PDA sites in Malaysia. Hope they'll generate some impacts :-) I "borrowed" some words from this forum and also Cangiante's. Hope it's ok.

1- PDABistro.com

http://pdabistro.hostsync.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1712&mode=thread&order=0

2- http://nazley.blogspot.com/

3- MyPDACafe.com

http://forum.mypdacafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=4815

4- MSU.com

http://www.mysymbianusers.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=23&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

:-)

Thanks and best regards,

ASRI
Founder / Director
www.mysymbianusers.com
admin@mysymbianusers.com

[cangiante]

Ciao AL,
the spirit of the message I sent you and from which you borrowed some sentences was to spread the word of the petition around...Therefore, I am VERY glad you used it and hope that all this commitment will get satisfactory results ;)

I would be grateful if you could kindly update your site with the correct link to the original thread of the new netBook pro, thus allowing your readers to be able to follow the (long) discussion which lead the whole international community to formulate the four proposals included in the petition.

the right link is the following:
http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18259

and, for those having a slow connection such as a GSM one, the printer-friendly version is here:

http://www.pdastreet.com/forums/printthread.php?s=&threadid=18259

keep up the good work!

gianluca