Open Science
We the People (60,000+ of us :) petition the White House for Open Science
On January 27th, 2013, with this tweet we celebrated reaching 60,000 signatures on the We the People petition to The White House, for public access to public-funded research. This visualization displays tweets using the shortened link to the petition itself, wh.gov/6TH.
More than eight months after the petition had started and seven months after we had reached the 25,000-signature threshold triggering a White House response, as shown above there were still daily tweets using the petition's official shortlink on Twitter. As also seen above, there were not only 39 retweets of this update, but many other conversations on Twitter following the update, generally discussing that we had been waiting a long time. We would discover later it had been worth the wait.
Open Science Federation, @openscience on Twitter had previously noted the 40,000th signature, the 50,000th signature, and many other moments while waiting for the White House response. We always took the chance to cc the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, @whitehouseostp on Twitter and remind them that we were waiting. Finally, with just over 65,000 signatures on the petition we received not only a positive response, but an historic directive for Open Access and Open Data from The White House, on February 22, 2013.
We the People (60,000+ of us :) petition the White House for Open Science
On January 27th, 2013, with this tweet we celebrated reaching 60,000 signatures on the We the People petition to The White House, for public access to public-funded research. This visualization displays tweets using the shortened link to the petition itself, wh.gov/6TH.
More than eight months after the petition had started and seven months after we had reached the 25,000-signature threshold triggering a White House response, as shown above there were still daily tweets using the petition's official shortlink on Twitter. As also seen above, there were not only 39 retweets of this update, but many other conversations on Twitter following the update, generally discussing that we had been waiting a long time. We would discover later it had been worth the wait.
Open Science Federation, @openscience on Twitter had previously noted the 40,000th signature, the 50,000th signature, and many other moments while waiting for the White House response. We always took the chance to cc the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, @whitehouseostp on Twitter and remind them that we were waiting. Finally, with just over 65,000 signatures on the petition we received not only a positive response, but an historic directive for Open Access and Open Data from The White House, on February 22, 2013.