Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 15:53:51 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: ISPs and other commercial interests, please read! [was Re: T1] Message-ID: <199507122253.PAA05791@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 1995 06:05:01 PDT." <199507121305.GAA24576@violet.berkeley.edu>
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Perhaps another way to gather support for FreeBSD is to adverstise in something like Microtimes or Computer Currents. Advertisement could be in the form of a FreeBSD column. If I am not mistaken Computer Currents has a column on Linux. The idea here is that the more people are aware of FreeBSD the higher is the likelyhood of attracting companies or technical contributors. A 1/4 of page ad on FreeBSD with some stuff on about net surfing will be great . Also, FreeBSD is perfect for establishing virtual communities where people log in to others system do work, chat over the net, establish their web pages for their community, etc... Give a presentation at Fry's and sell FreeBSD cdroms at Frys. When I bought my HP laser printer from them the sales person express interest on PC Unix even though he is an MAC fanatic. It will be cool to setup them up a system and demonstrate our connectivity. We could setup two systems that have vat and have people drop in and talk to each other Fry's stores in the Valley are well connected. So peddle around at Fry's and know knows. On the Doc side, I have noticed about 1/2 dozen linux books popping up. We should have a FreeBSD book out. On the techie side, if you participate or listen to programs on the Mbone, advertise that you are running on a FreeBSD system. For instance: vat -N "hasty@star-gate.com <FreeBSD box> " is the way I invoke vat so that other participants know who I am and what I am running. If you have a sig, it will be nice if you stated that you run FreeBSD. Enjoy, Amancio
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