Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:41:06 -0500 From: "Hudson, Laura" <Laura.Hudson@Schwab.COM> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Is there a reseller program? Message-ID: <C17157B85F4AD011906400805FBE20D504CD180B@N1001SMX.nt.schwab.com>
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I'm no graphic designer, but I'd be more than willing to help. I think FreeBSD needs to advertise, and I'd be more than willing to chip in time, money, and whatever else I can to develop a marketing strategy, including a few magazine ads and a Box design... Maybe we should write FreeBSD for dummies, make it fun and light hearted, and aimed at the unix-newbie. "The complete freebsd" seems to be aimed towards people that know unix... If we really want to succeed, we need to get a larger user base, but we have to be prepared to help newbies. -Laura Hudson > > Now, I can hear Jordan chanting his mantra, "great, send me > the diffs", but > we have all this stuff. It would just take a marketing person > a few weeks to > whip this into a nice spiffy product. The only stumbling > block is our old > problem, the manual. We could package Greg Leheys' book > without the freaking > man pages. In reality we do need another FreeBSD book. Greg can't be > carrying the whole load for us. > > > My $0.02 > > Josef > > -- > Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 > jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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