Can you believe it’s been a year since we started accepting donations? Time flies when you’re campaigning! Nevertheless, a full twelve months have passed, which means that if you donated a full year’s subscription last January or February and helped get ORG on its feet, the time has now come for you to decide whether [...]

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It doesn’t seem like a month since we appointed Becky Hogge to the position of Executive Director, but time has flown by and today Becky begins to take over the reins from me. We’ll work together for the next month to ensure a smooth handover and then it’ll be down to Becky to continue to [...]

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I’m delighted to announce that Becky Hogge is going to be taking over from me as ORG’s new full-time Executive Director on 15 January 2007. We had some great applicants for the post, but Becky shone as someone who will be able to bring ORG many new successes over the coming months and years.
Becky joins [...]

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If you are interested in taking over the role of Executive Director of the Open Rights Group, don’t forget that our deadline for applications is 13 November, i.e. next Monday. More information on this blog post.

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The Open Rights Group has grown astonishingly quickly over the last year, thanks to the hard work of the Board, the Advisory Council, our volunteers and part-time staff. Indeed, things have grown so fast that it’s now time to recruit a full-time Executive Director who will be able to get organised some of the things [...]

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If you’ve been wanting a ‘Support ORG’ button for your blog or website, I’m happy to say that we’ve now created some. In three smashing sizes, you can now exhort your visitors to protect their bits.
Here they are with code that you can cut and paste:
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<a href="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/support-org" title="Support ORG"><img src="http://www.openrightsgroup.org/badges/org_protect_150.gif" width="150" height="36" alt="Support the Open [...]

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Last year, over a thousand people pledged a fiver a month to help us set up the Open Rights Group - an organisation to publicise and fight for civil liberties in the digital world.
So far, we have around 500 supporters who have been true to their pledge and are giving us a fiver each month. [...]

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Thanks very much to Denise Wilton, Chris Morrison and their collaborators both on and off the Haddock mailing list for designing the new ORG logo. If you want to have a stab at a new WordPress themes, or ’support ORG’ buttons, then email me for a zip of all versions.

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Unfortunately, we’ve been having some technical difficulties with the ORG servers over the last couple of weeks, resulting in the Discussion list going down. We are trying to get this fixed as soon as possible. Sorry about the outage!

UPDATE: Org lists back up again!
We’ve actually moved the ORG lists on to a new server, so [...]

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Cory Doctorow, ORG Advisory Council member, famous novelist, copyright activist and one of the driving forces behind BoingBoing, has kindly donated a Razr mobile phone and a signed first edition of his novel Eastern Standard Tribe, to the Open Rights Group for us to auction. We have duly put both together as one lot on [...]

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