Ok Katim, Phew! I did not know that it was this involved, but i shall seek
out help. Anyone out there who has experience with this and wants to join me
in volunteering, please let me know.

Jabou Joh

In a message dated 7/4/2001 4:44:04 PM Central Daylight Time,
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Hi Jabou,

 Thanks for volunteering to coordinate the signature collection for the
planned
 petition.  As I imagine it, this is what would be involved:  you call for
and select
 a group of people (I suggest 5 of them) who will be the first line of
signature
 collectors (calle them Level 1).  The people you select will be people who
you know
 or can prove their identity to you.  And you'll be able to trust that they'd
do a
 good and honest job.  They'll then collect signatures, and submit them to
you.

 The Level 1 volunteers can either collect signatures themselves, and/or
recruit Level
 2 volunteers to help them collect signatures.  Similar to your selection
process
 above, Level 1 volunteers recruit Level 2 people *they* (Level 1 people)
know and/or
 trust, to help them collect signatures.  The system is pretty much like a
multi-level
 marketing one, except that in this case we'll be collecting signatures,
rather than
 selling products.

 I suggest that we stop at only 2 levels, to make things more manageable.  If
we have
 5 Level 1 volunteers, and each of them has 3 Level 2 volunteers, we'll have
15
 signature collectors.  That's probably more than enough, but you get the
idea.  I'll
 leave it to you to decide how many people you want at each level, and hence
the
 maximum number of signature collectors you want to work with.

 Once we have the list of signature collectors, we can then publish it on
Gambia-L, so
 that people would know who to write to to sign-up for the petition.  Each
signature
 collector is responsible for making sure that all the signatures collected
are
 authentic.  For this reason, signature collectors will have to know people
who
 sign-up for the petition, or these petitioners will have to prove that their
e-mailed
 petitions are genuine.  There are a number of means of doing this.  For
example, we
 can have signature collectors in different countries and parts of the world
so they
 can call people back, or have people call them to validate their requests to
sign on
 to the petition.  I suggest we leave it to individual collectors to
determine exactly
 how to go about validating signatures they receive.

 With regards the signatures, I suggest that people provide their full names,
 addresses, and e-mail addresses (if they have them).  The petition we
deliver will
 only have names, cities, (states/provinces - if applicable) and countries,
but for
 our records, I suggest you keep the detailed information submitted by each
signatory.
 Finally, any incomplete information will be rejected.

 That's about it for now.  Please let us know of any suggestions you (or
anyone out
 there) has for making the signature collection excercise go smoothly.

 Again, thanks for volunteering for to coordinate the drive.  Have a great
evening,
 and best wishes.

 Katim >>

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