As we posted yesterday we decided to launch a petition. We know doing this petition means taking a risk. We know this petition means opening our website for people spamming and abusing the little input fields we give them. Yes, we know people will sign this petition with bogus names and bogus e-mail addresses. The thing is: we decided to go for it anyway - armed with enthusiasm and motivation!

We’re hoping thousands of people will sign the petition, and even though we know there are thousands of people supporting our ideas, it’s not going to be easy to actually get them to add their signature too… We’re counting on all our supporters to help us get the word out, and appreciate all the exposure we get!

We tested the petition during the last few days and haven’t had any serious problems. But, should you encounter any problem what so ever please let us know!

Thank you so much for your support! CLICK RIGHT HERE TO SIGN OUR PETITION!

In the past few days the “Bill Gates for President” message has reached Hundreds of Thousands of people, obviously more than we expected it to do in such a short time-span. Because of this tiger wave of attention we missed out on the organic growth stadium of our movement, something we can hopefully start catching up for right about now…

That’s right, we really are serious about this. To get our ideas out there we are looking for ten to fifteen adults who, even though we all know it’s a long shot to see Bill actually run for President, feel strongly about our ideas and are willing to contribute some time to the collective. Our small but enthusiastic team is proving to be a tiny bit too small, and with some extra (wo)manpower we’re sure we can do so much more…

We had quite a few e-mails during the weekend from people asking for bumper stickers, buttons and T-shirts to help us spread the word. We hesitated for a while but after e-mail number ten we decided to give it a go.

We’ve made a small CafePress.com store in which we’re currently selling some shirts, mugs, magnets and stickers. We’re not giving stuff away, but because we’re not in this for the money either (we have a long way to go to break-even ;-)), we’re donating at least 10% of all the profits to HIV/AIDS charities, even if we’re still in the red. We’ll up the percentage at the point of break-even!

We’ve also made some free pdf templates people can use to print out their own posters and flyers. Thanks to Jeff Taylor for the great idea!

Alright, it’s great to see people taking their own initiatives to help spread our ideas. Thanks to Vail Gold there’s now a Facebook group dedicated to the “Bill Gates for President!” movement. Time for you to represent! (You can also put a bumper sticker on your Volvo too, hé!)

Anyway, I created a group on Facebook.com called “Bill Gates for President!” that any member of the site can join. I think that this group can help spread the popularity of the idea exponentially throughout the undergraduate students of colleges across the country to say the least. I made it because I read the Slashdot article about your site, and I was interested, and I saw that no one had created a Facebook group yet. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

A little over an hour ago Scott Adams has blown a whole lot of extra life into our ambitious website. Thanks, Scott! It’s great to see we’re not alone, and we’re sure more people will jump on the bandwagon in the next few days and weeks.

One of our main concerns however is keeping our web page in the spotlight, and reaching a large amount of people with our beliefs and ideas, but also with interesting articles, pro and contra. That’s right, being rationalists just like Bill (a little bit less wealthy, maybe), we believe our web page should be a place where all opinions have their place. You feel like challenging us? Bring it on! Relevance and quality are the only things we demand.