Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 18:55:37 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980410183013.18216C-100000@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <6218.892195002@time.cdrom.com>
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I'm involved in setting up an upcoming security convention and one of the things we wish to do is give away cd's of the free unix os's such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Linux, etc. Being a fbsd fan I'm very interested in promoting the os, and will be doing so by distributing the cd's as well as the Complete FreeBSD as prizes for competitions run during the convention. <sidenote> The last time I found FreeBSD cd's, it was a "Turbo-FreeBSD" distribution from someplace I can't remember, with 2.1.5-RELEASE on it and 2.2 snapshots. This was flanked on either side by the latest Redhat/Slackware releases at the time, Redhat 4.1 and the Slackware release I can't remember. And come to think of it, I have yet to see *any* OpenBSD cd's so far in Australia, I guess their camp isn't marketing themselves too heavily either. regards, Nicholas Brawn -- Email: ncb05@uow.edu.au Nicholas Brawn - Computer Science Undergraduate, University of Wollongong. On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Where do I sign up? > > "FreeBSD Marketing: Who Do You Want To Picket And Beat To Death With Stats > > Today?" > > Heh, you joke, but Mike Smith and I were kicking ourselves today > thinking "DAMN! After that big Linux user's group meeting, a big bus > went up to the Mozilla party several times with busloads of Linux > advocates and what a wasted opportunity! We could have had a guy in a > Chuck costume standing there, handing out FreeBSD CDs (along with a > little pamphlet describing how a Linux user might evaluate and > possibly transition to FreeBSD) to each person getting off the bus. > Damn damn damn! We suck at marketing!" > > Our comments were half in jest, but little PR stunts like this, done > in the proper humor, are seriously worth doing if you can pull them > off. It'd also be kinda nice if we pulled one off occasionally rather > than just thinking about it afterwards, and for that we need better > advance notification and planning when such opportunities present > themselves. Should any of you spot such an opportunity and need some > help in making it happen, let us know! > > Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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