From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 7 03:59:14 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 7B91CC0E for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 03:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68D411B4 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 03:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from u10-2-32-011.office.norse-data.com (unknown [50.204.88.51]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C0BA4341F877; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:59:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54FA77DD.40301@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:00:29 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Hayes , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: #InstallFreeBSD References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 03:59:14 -0000 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