From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Apr 4 4:18:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93CB37B708 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 04:18:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id e34BIAm00231 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:18:10 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 13:18:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD for the masses? Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BUS - The BSD User group Sweden - have lately discussed ways of popularizing *BSD here. The question is we (I?) are not sure on how to approach this subject in the best possible way. A short recap of our mailing-list sums up as follows: How is it that we don't see more ads about *BSD? (We know it is the better alternative) What would the recipients reaction be? A couple of scenarios: 1. People don't give a toss. 2. People get a CD and fail installing it. Exit the *BSD arena for good. 3. People get a CD and make a successful install. Now what? What do we 'feed' them with to make them stick to *BSD? 'People' above is probably not the general public? Or is it? Are there enough ' technically inclined' persons around to make a wide advertisement campaign worth the money? www.raditex.se has loads of CD's ready for distribution. Likely receivers are magazines, schools, local municipality &c. Does anyone on this list have experience with this? What constitues a 'successful' target and what is a dead end? It appears that Reader's Columns in mags are somewhat successful in attracting attention. Of course the mags must be of a techie style for this to work. (Am I wrong here?) I've been trying to get national magazines to include a FreeBSD CD, but I have not had any reaction from them at all (via mail). One rag had a Corel Linux CD the other week, so they should be interested. Or do they simply jump the linux bandwaggon? ("nothing succeeds like success") ------------- So far the mailing-list. Now over to you! Has anyone done something like this? Or even had thoughts about doing it? It might be dangerous to declare the FreeBSD superiority and stepping on The Penguins toes, for example? Saying that FreeBSD is better that windows is also a bit of a hot potato (...yes, we know it is, but accostumed unix users are more likely to appreciate uptimes and TCP/IP-intricacies than the average point-and-click user...)? Of course advertisments do not have to flame other OS'es - this is perhaps the best way. Do we have substantiated claims to present? (How much fact does www.unix-vs-nt.org actually contain?) 'nuff scribblings from me. Tips and tricks of the trade are most welcome! /Micke No need to cc me. I'm on this list. PS. Who am I? A mere happy user. I run some hardware labs and a FreeBSD server and am trying hard to get FreeBSD on the clients too. Background in DOS and OS/2. Specially interested in - among other special interests - how to make FreeBSD attractive, for schools for example. ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.4 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message