Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:33:06 +0100 From: Daniel Seuffert <DS@praxisvermittlung24.de> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lack of FreeBSD coverage in the UK media Message-ID: <4603E522.2090901@praxisvermittlung24.de> In-Reply-To: <4603D9FF.4070100@xk7.net> References: <4603D9FF.4070100@xk7.net>
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Paul Waring wrote: > I've noticed over the past few years that there has been a growing > number of Linux magazines available in the UK (Linux Format, Linux > Magazine and Linux User/Developer are the ones that immediately spring > to mind), but there is still no widely available printed magazine aimed > at users of FreeBSD (or any other BSD for that matter). I've been > wondering why this is the case for a while, and was reminded of the > issue during a discussion after a talk given by Robert Watson at this > week's UKUUG conference. There doesn't seem to be a lack of > people/organisations using FreeBSD in the UK, there are a number of BSD > user groups and I'm sure plenty of people attend their local LUG as well. > > To be honest, I'm not entirely sure why FreeBSD doesn't get better media > coverage than it currently does in the UK, but I did think of a few > ideas that might help improve matters: > > 1. Try and get a list of BSD user groups printed in the major Linux > magazines - Linux Format does this for LUGs so perhaps they'd be open to > including UUGs as well. > > 2. Get mini BSD stories into the existing Linux magazines - most of them > have a small bar at the bottom of the main news pages with short > summaries of stories and it would be great some BSD-related items there. > > 3. Have people send in various items which someone edits into a one or > two page 'This month in FreeBSD' article (or rather 'three months ago in > FreeBSD', given the lead times for articles). > > The other advantage, apart from extra coverage of FreeBSD, is that > magazines will often pay fees for articles, so if an tutorial was put > together by several people then that fee could be donated to the FreeBSD > Foundation (assuming everyone was happy with that) and everyone wins. > > What do other people think? Is this lack of coverage a problem which > should be addressed, or is FreeBSD doing well enough in the UK as it is? I don't know much about the specific situation in the UK, but I can confirm BSD is not well represented in the media. I really like to see more media attention worldwide and your ideas are reasonable imho. But don't forget: It's hard work and you need people doing this work. That's the problematic part and that's the main reason imho why we don't have more media attention... - Daniel
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