From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 2 10:19:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF72537B71E for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:19:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA1F12; Mon, 2 Apr 2001 10:24:32 -0700 Message-ID: <3AC8B495.6A4131F@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 10:19:17 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Freebsd-Advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5th in survey of used Linux distributions ! References: <001201c0b99f$52c8bdc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Consider that the gaffe has probably given them far more > publicity than if the report was correctly done, so I > wouldn't shed any tears. I'm not sure it was a complete gaffe. They asked Linux developers what systems (plural) they used. It seems logical to me that 20% of them would have FreeBSD on a secondary partition. Heck, I even know one guy who uses FreeBSD as his *primary* system for Linux development! Knowing that 20% of Linux developers use FreeBSD is valuable marketing information. If I were Inprise/Borland, for example, and bought this report, I would know that I need to get Kylix ported to FreeBSD. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 5 2: 3:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mailbox.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 043CE37B43C for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:03:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from l.ertl@univie.ac.at) Received: from pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at (pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.2.177]) by mailbox.univie.ac.at (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3593Jq282418 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:03:20 +0200 Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:03:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Tips for an exhibition booth Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, the austrian Linux community organizes a Linux and Open Source exhibition in June, called Linuxdays . They have offered the BSD Usergroup Austria a separate booth and the possibility to give a talk about a BSD specific topic. The problem is, noone of us has a lot of experience with exhibitions and booths and talks, and we are a little bit scared about presenting BSD in such a Linux-centric meeting. We already thought about setting up three boxes, one for each major BSD, and give the audience the possibility to watch or even perform an installation on themselves. So I'd like to ask if anyone of you can give us some hints, tips and suggestions on booth decoration, talk topics etc. regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at WWW-Redaktion Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Apr 6 9:30:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A958637B440 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 09:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 14lZ8E-00084B-00; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:30:42 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f36GSRq08222 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:28:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Tips for an exhibition booth Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <9akqra$80l$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lukas Ertl wrote: > the austrian Linux community organizes a Linux and Open Source exhibition > in June, called Linuxdays . They have offered > the BSD Usergroup Austria a separate booth and the > possibility to give a talk about a BSD specific topic. Go! > The problem is, noone of us has a lot of experience with exhibitions and > booths and talks, and we are a little bit scared about presenting BSD in > such a Linux-centric meeting. There's no reason to be scared. I helped organize a BSD booth and did a BSD talk both at last year's Journées du Libre (Strasbourg) and LinuxTag (Stuttgart), which are basically Linux events. The organizers were supportive, the public interested. > So I'd like to ask if anyone of you can give us some hints, tips and > suggestions on booth decoration, talk topics etc. Judging from experience, booth decoration is not my forte and that's the same for most people. Wim Vandeputte really improved our LinuxTag booth by putting up a plethora of BSD shirts, caps, etc. OpenBSD has excellent shirts and posters. You also may want to have some shirts and CDs for sale. I suggest having a burner on location and making CDs on demand. If you want to give a general presentation of BSD to a crowd of Linux-savvy users, feel free to recycle my talk: http://home.pages.de/~naddy/unix/bsdlinux.html See also my summary about our experiences at LT2K: http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/reports/linuxtag-2000.html -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message