From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 13:25:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE851065677 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:25:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B3C8FC14 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:25:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (p5DCBF6BA.dip.t-dialin.net [93.203.246.186]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p7PDP0PU047833; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:25:01 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p7PDOkB0004097; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:24:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7PDOY41004920; Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:24:40 GMT (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201108251324.p7PDOY41004920@fire.js.berklix.net> to: advocacy@freebsd.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:14:24 PDT." Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:24:34 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: Mark Lein Subject: Re: BSD media is going to 200 cities for http://softwarefreedomday.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:25:05 -0000 Hi, Mark Lein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julian H. Stacey 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.