Earlier this morning I took a quick look on identi.ca to see what I had been missing.  I was a bit surprised to see that someone had started a petition on the Whitehouse.gov website asking for more open source, specifically GPL-licensed, software to be included in our public schools.  I had not seen this petition and it appears that it won't be active for too much longer.  I encourage everyone to sign the petition as this is an easy way to get the Whitehouse to recognize the goodness that is open source software.