Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 18:28:24 -0600 (CST) From: Licia <licia@o-o.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD giveaway pens (was: I Need Advice) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981107181724.350A-100000@o-o> In-Reply-To: <19981108100217.U499@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 7 November 1998 at 13:41:01 -0600, Licia wrote: > > > > I'm about to place an order for 1,000 ink pens to give away. > > I am allowed 4 lines of 26 characters each in which to place > > my message. I would really like some suggestions as to how > > best to use these lines to advocate FreeBSD. > > > > Right now, I am thinking something like : > > > > | ---------------------------| > > > > 1 FreeBSD > > 2 A Free Operating System > > 3 http://www.FreeBSD.org > > 4 The Power To Serve > > > > > > I suspect there must be much better wording to get the message > > across and get people's attention. I plan to leave these pens > > in book stores, computer stores, give them to friends, maybe > > ask some people to take some to their schools with them. I know > > it's not much, but I really want to get this message done right :) > > It would be nice to get something in there that indicates the nature > of the operating system. I can't think of anything myself, but maybe > somebody else can. > I tried various comma delimited word groups to get that effect, but it didn't look right, perhaps because I didn't think of the right words. The last group I tried was something like : net, web, dns, email, irc on the line I currently list "The Power To Serve" > That's a generous offer. Is this your own money, or is somebody else > behind you? Also, why pens? I keep suggesting mouse pads, but nobody > has got around to it yet. Of course, I don't know the relative cost. > > Greg > -- :) Yes, it's my own money. I wish there were someone behind me, but I can't seem to interest many people in my ideas, so i'm doing them all on my own :) Most of them just involve work, which costs me nothing but time and give me some fun :) I'm trying to do several things right now to advocate and support FreeBSD and will hopefully begin getting very public about them within the next 30 or 40 days, quicker if I can get the time to do more of the work. I chose pens because I saw an advertisement sent to a friend owning a small business. She buys these pens with her business information on them for something like 48 cents each. When I saw that, it occured to me what works for a small commercial business would likely work well for a free operating system :) Mouse pads I don't know anything about. The cheapest usable one's I've found retail for $1 plus tax here in Houston. I imagine it would be at least that much for wholesale pads with things printed on them to order. The pens are much cheaper, I think :) Also, people tend to keep their mousepads in one place. I figure cheap pens will get moved around more, getting more exposure hopefully resulting in more people hearing about this marvelous gift that's just waiting for them to accept it :) [ licia@o-o.org ] [ http://www.o-o.org/ ] [ IrcNick : Licia ] [ A happy user of FreeBSD : http://www.freebsd.org/ ] [ Why crawl through windows when you can walk through a door? ] [ This user boycotts all Microsoft products and services ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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