From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 14 18:27:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10046 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.pacificnet.net (polaris.pacificnet.net [207.171.0.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09840 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 01:26:36 GMT (envelope-from bear@pacificnet.net) Received: from pm3h-11.pacificnet.net (pm3h-11.pacificnet.net [207.171.35.108]) by polaris.pacificnet.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA28132 for ; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:24:33 -0700 (PDT) env-from (bear@pacificnet.net) Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:25:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Joey Garcia To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Promotion Ideas Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Here's an idea for promoting FreeBSD. Over in LA area we have lot's of Computer Shows (I'm sure they have those world wide)...Anyways...why not open a booth at one of those shows promoting FreeBSD. At the booth...We can have a giant poster of the Beastie and a few machines running FreeBSD showing off what it can do. Also...we can sell FreeBSD books and CD's. Although, Walnut Creek would have to sponsor that I think, considering that getting a booth at a computer show costs money. Although, with book and cd sales ... it maybe worth it. Another idea is of course starting a Group...one guy on this list keeps suggesting that FreeBSD.org does something about doing a FUG (FreeBSD Users Group)...well the way I see it is that User Groups are up the the Users .. not really FreeBSD.org. Although...FreeBSD.org should keep and up to date list on all the User Groups available worldwide. If some of you are in school...(perhaps a jounior college or something)...maybe you can introduce FreeBSD to your C programming instructor. Maybe he/she would be insterested in starting a class in Unix via FreeBSD. I have heard of a few Community Colleges using Linux, so maybe we can help push FreeBSD. Hmmm...how about (thinking ...) What if we target already established "Computer Groups" and try promoting FreeBSD to them. Like giving them a free CD or something. I'm sure that most of you live in areas that already have Computer clubs that might not really deal with Unix, yet should be introduced to Unix. I guess one of the problems we have to face is to show to people what FreeBSD has to offer them and why it's "better" than Linux or other free-unix's. Well...all of these were ideas that I had while I was at work. I don't know if any are actually possible. Maybe they all are. I guess the thing is that we have to get off our butts and start doing something....but trust me...I know that's kinda hard to do. We all have lives and stuff....right? Peace, Joey Bear Garcia =================================================== Joseph Garcia Downey, CA bear@pacificnet.net "Dont drink and drive, you might spill the beer." =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message