Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 12:55:00 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Joey Garcia <bear@pacificnet.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Jason Nordwick <nordwick@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>, The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@threespace.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform Message-ID: <199805101955.MAA06696@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 12:42:27 PDT." <Pine.LNX.3.96.980510122857.215A-100000@mustang>
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For sure you have appeal to my hacker / gadget interest and pave the way to make me productive in the marketing arena . I love it!! If you feel that you need an assistant for an event in the Bay Area please don't hesitate to contact me. Tnks! Amancio > On Sun, 10 May 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > Closing remarks, as JKH also stated in the past we do need a marketing > > person or group -- so where are the marketing types ? Yes, I know that > > they are hiding can one or two in the marketing category please step > > forward and help our cause? > > > > Amancio > > > I'd like to volunteer in the marketing thing. I think that we need > "Marketing Groups" headed by a "Core Marketying" person. This is a big > planet, so I think that little groups in major cities throughout the world > that would be responsible to getting the word about about FreeBSD and it's > strength in the business world. > > I remember when I was in high school, we used to do those "underground" > parties. We'd go out and pass out flyers after school at different malls, > and schools, and on weekends we'd hit the clubs. We were known as > "Promoters". God, those days were so much fun. *sigh* Anyways.... > > Perhaps we can use this sort of method to promote FreeBSD. Groups of > "FreeBSD Promoters" can hit computer trade shows, computer/software > vendors, computer swapmeats and stuff like that passing out flyers, or > stickers, or cd's. I don't know of WC already does it, but maybe produce > some give away cd's. Inexpensive cd's witout all that facny printing work > done to it and stuff like that. Promo-cd's. Maybe, if it isn't expensive > we can set up a booth at these trade shows, selling books and cd's and > having a demo of FreeBSD (a working machine running FreeBSD doing real > work like CAD or something cool like that). > > All this would be done by volunteers. I know that would be hard an all to > get some people off their buns and do something, but guys think of it this > way. It would be a great motivation thing, you'd be able to go the trade > shows to not only promote for FreeBSD, but look at the neat goodies they > have to offer as well. :) I love going to see the new technology and > stuff like that. > > Those are just some of my thoughts. I'd be willing to do that, although I > don't want to do it alone. Anyone wanna help? > > Joey Garcia > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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