From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 9 16:30:25 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D696968 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [IPv6:2001:470:1f05:b76::196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1635412B for ; Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:30:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from AlfredMacbookAir.local (c-76-21-10-192.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [76.21.10.192]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3DBBA341F861; Mon, 9 Mar 2015 09:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54FDCA98.9090607@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 09:30:16 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anne Dickison Subject: Re: #InstallFreeBSD References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 16:30:25 -0000 This is very cool and exactly what I was hoping for. Thank you Anne! On 3/9/15 8:40 AM, Anne Dickison wrote: > Hi everyone, > The FreeBSD Foundation will put together some talking points. However, > to get started, here is the PDF of our "Get Involved" Brochure which > highlights a bit more about why to get involved in FreeBSD. > > https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/documents/FREEBSD_flyer_FIN.pdf > > If you are planning on hosting an event, please let the FreeBSD > Foundation know via marketing@freebsdfoundation.org > . We'll be promoting these > events though our social media channels and those of our marketing > partners. > > Thanks > Anne > > Anne Dickison > Marketing Director > FreeBSD Foundation > > > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Alfred Perlstein > wrote: > > > > On 3/5/15 4:45 PM, Grant Hayes wrote: > > Dear FreeBSD developers, users, and other enthusiasts: > > This is a call for individuals to organize #InstallFreeBSD > events in their > locales. The purpose of these events is to increase awareness > of our > favorite operating system because it's worth knowing about and > using. > > The events should be planned ahead of time and open to the > public to > maximize the impact of sharing FreeBSD with the wider world. > It would be > great to use a shared agenda that will allow each event to > engage its > participants in an intentional but leave room for flexibility. > > These events should take place the week of Monday, March 30. > It's several > weeks away, which allows plenty of time to collaborate on > putting these > together. > > For a more in-depth look at how and why, see > http://www.trollaxor.com/2015/02/call-to-action-plan-installfreebsd-event.html > . > > If you're interested, have questions, or already have one > coming together, > share here on the list and coordinate the work. > > This is a really good idea. > > I guess one question I would have to ask though is what are the > selling points of FreeBSD? The page has a great agenda, but let's > say you were appealing to someone running Linux, Ubuntu, OS X, > Windows... what exactly do they have to gain by coming down and > installing FreeBSD? > > It would be nice to have some talking points on that. > > -Alfred > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " > > > > > -- >