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Date:      Fri, 10 Jul 1998 07:36:39 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@newsguy.com>
To:        "advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG" <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:    Let's talk Advocacy (Was FreeBSD E-Zine?)
Message-ID:  <199807101137.EAA23929@newsguy.com>

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While I see much interest in the E-zine, which I share, I want to
bring back the topic of getting FreeBSD noticed. Even if the E-zine
is a great success among CURRENT (vs stable <G>) users we still need
to get FreeBSD noticed by the outside world.

What has been tried on th past?

My recommendations are:

-Some form of paid advertisement in a major NON-TECHNICAL
magazine/newspaper. This would be probably costly and to do it right
we would probably need the help of a marketting firm.

-Articles to editors/contributors of technical magazines. All it will
take is people who can write appealing articles that writers in these
magazines could either change to their needs or be informative enough
for them to want to find out more about FreeBSD.

-Link Exchange. Put the FreeBSD site in Link-Exchange. Have as many
sites as possible use the code for the FreeBSD site on THEIR pages.
This will create a healthy number of exposures for the FreeBSD
banner. This is FREE, easy to do and works all by itself day and
night after the 
initial setup. Must definitely WORTH A SHOT.


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