Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:24:34 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Lein <mark@lein.ca> Subject: Re: BSD media is going to 200 cities for http://softwarefreedomday.org Message-ID: <201108251324.p7PDOY41004920@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:14:24 PDT." <CAEAOKZfLm=KcLpbCMqLKV0hruULhK9xSy706pTgQLVJJT70Qaw@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Mark Lein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > > > Hi advocacy@freebsd.org > > BSD media is in transit to 200 global cities for > > http://softwarefreedomday.org in 23 days > > > > However it &/or other BSD media will need copying to keep up with Linux > > as theres a Lot more free Ubuntu CDROMs going out at the same time, > > (a question of what richest sponsor pays most for) > > > > You could offer to run off a batch for your local city's SFD team. > > Maybe charge a beer or coffee copying charge per media to cover cost ? > > > > You could join the softwarefreedomday.org team in your local city, > > to help promote free software. > > http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011 > > > > A sample from Munich Germany http://berklix.org/sfd/ > > > > Cheers, > > Julian > > Now first off, don't get me wrong as I love FreeBSD... but wouldn't it make > more sense to send out something like PC-BSD? Something that people can run > without muss nor fuss, like Ubuntu? > > Mark Hi all, Which BSD media ended up in SFD city packs I'm not sure: I haven't received mine yet. FreBSD logo is on http://softwarefreedomday.org, PC-BSD was also considered. FreeBSD Foundation & IX Systems were in the loop. I started the initiative to add BSD media, but dropped out when it became more a logistics decision: who could rush provide bulk BSD media to the SFD central distribution point before city packs were globaly distributed. SFD would not be averse to more variety of BSDs & Linuxes etc. 200 BSD discs, 1 per city is just a start, SFD hopes cities can localy replicate BSD media. I encourage *BSD people to contact local city SFD groups, & offer to copy a variety of *BSD media, give lectures. do installs, hand out media or leaflets whatever you fancy. It's a day for *BSD & *Linux etc to co-operate together, to evangelise against proprietary closed commercial binary, but If we BSD don't act, as Ubuntu has a rich & generous sponsor, on the day, Ubuntu media will out number BSD media by 100 to 1. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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