Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:00:44 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Haas <haas@willi.lion.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Publicity (was: Re: "The competition") Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970314093719.1061C-100000@willi> In-Reply-To: <21055.858321658@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Full page ad in Sysadmin Magazine. I wish we could afford that. *sigh* > > We could, actually. It's not as hard as you think. The problem is > simply that we don't have the kind of marketing manager who could come > up with an advert like that and see it through to film and placement. Hmm, can someone scan it and send it to me as a jpg ? I don't have access to that magazine here in Germany. Maybe I can ask one or two people to design such an ad. But don't rely on it, I don't know if my former school mates are willing to do it... > It's definitely not one of myskills, and I know of no one in the > project or at Walnut Creek CDROM who would be capable of putting > together an advert polished enough to be worthy of a full pager in any > magazine. But it can't be too difficult, can it ? I'm sure if one or two people with some "artistic" skills sit together with a pencil and some water colors they can create a nice advert. It doesn't have to be a "full sizer" right now, but a nice little advert (maybe half a page) would really help FreeBSD getting more popular. And I'm a volunteer if it comes to translating the advert into German. I think we really need more publicity. We (Joerg, Andreas Klemm and a few others) had a little discussion on the FreeBSD workshop that was part of the last GUUG meeting, and we all agreed that FreeBSD needs a good push. If we really bring up an advert and publish it in one or two big computer magazines in Europe (here in Germany that would mean c't [a magazine that favours the L-word operating system], iX and UnixOpen, I don't know the market in the States), I'm sure that a few hundred people would wake up and at least give FreeBSD a try. > Sad but true. I wish advertising people were the types to volunteer > their time for such things, but that seems not to be the case so > far. :( As I said above: there ARE a few artists out there (yes, I AM sure) that use FreeBSD (no, I'm not one of them, but I can give a few ideas). Come on, we need it... Christoph -- Christoph Haas o.tel.o GmbH | Never trust an operating UNIX Sysadmin Universitaetsstrasse 140| system you don't have the 44799 Bochum / Germany | sources for. (jw) mailto:haas@lion.de http://www.o-tel-o.de | http://www.freebsd.org
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