OSOR.EU published on April 28, 2009 an article about the Free Software Pact initiative, entitled "EP candidate: Free software essential for public administrations".
Some excerpts:
All candidates for the European Parliament are asked to publicly state their support for the use and development of this type of software and to affirm that they will protect it from legislation that threatens it.
The two advocacy groups started a campaign on 31 March, two months ahead of the elections for the European Parliament. They want citizens to approach candidates, bring them up-to-date regarding free software and ask them to express their support for it. The names of candidates that pledge support are published on a web site, The Free Software Pact.
Spokesperson for the campaign, Alix Cazenave, said free software advocacy groups in Spain and Portugal are about to join the campaign. «And we are also making contact with German free software activists.»
On this site the groups have also made available an application to help volunteers organise their lobby work, called 'Grassroot Platform Technology'. An alternative open source platform, 'Carocandidato', is developed by Italians developers involved in the campaign.