Re: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org global city teams recruitment

[Frederic Muller - SFI <fred%softwarefreedomday.org@localhost>]

Well thanks Julian for the introduction and the efforts. I'd like to 
highlight that it is a celebration of Software Freedom (and not 
GNU/Linux/Hurd/BSD/OpenSolaris?). Our aim is to talk to people to 
explain them about the importance of Free & Open Source Software and 
encourage them to gradually 'migrate' to using those software. A lot of 
those applications today run equally well on either platform and telling 
people to switch to Linux or BSD overnight might be a bit too extreme.

We do have some materials on our website to explain our approach a bit 
further, but I just wanted to highlight it was more about explaining why 
it was important than doing installfests.

With that in mind most events do talk about free operating systems but I 
think it's good to be progressive.

And we'd love to have more BSD people around as well :p

Thanks a lot.

Fred

On 07/24/2011 08:20 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi "NetBSD Users's Discussion List"<netbsd-users%NetBSD.org@localhost>
> &  cc Frederic Muller - SFI<fred%softwarefreedomday.org@localhost>
>
> > From:           Scrap Happy<Scrap%GMX.com@localhost>
> > Date:           Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:38:56 -0700
> > Message-id:     <4E2BBE00.1060508%GMX.com@localhost>
> > Subject:        Re: promoting NetBSD for embedded&  appliance projects
>
> > Yup.<frown>   I think this is a consequence of the "quantity"
> > of Linux seats, evangelism, etc.
> >
> > I can't do anything about *that*.
>
> There's a short (1.5 weeks) window of opportunity now, to register for
>         Free promotional stuff to promote Software Freedom Day.
> Users need to combine, per city round the world, into teams with users
> of other BSD&  other Linux etc,&  register teams Quickly to
> qualify for the freebie promo article kits to be posted in time to
> arrive for for Software Freedom Day events.
>
> So talk to friends in your cities who use BSD&  Linux
> Here's something I posted last night with URLs
>
>
> > To: advocacy%freebsd.org@localhost
> > From: "Julian H. Stacey"<jhs%berklix.com@localhost>
> > Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:48:31 +0200
> > Cc: Frederic Muller - SFI<fred%softwarefreedomday.org@localhost>,
> >          board%freebsdfoundation.org@localhost
> > Subject: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org global city teams recruitment
> >
> > Hi advocacy%freebsd.org@localhost
> >
> > http://www.softwarefreedomday.org are recruiting city teams to promote
> > Free Software globally on Sept 17th.
> >
> > Any teams that get registered in the next week or just over will also get
> > a free shipment of proomotional goodies. Inc Ubuntu CDs.
> >
> > yes, not the right note ideally for us perhaps, but if it gets people off
> > Micro$oft its still good.
> >
> > I wrote to http://freebsdfoundation.org/ to see if they fancied sponsoring
> > some BSD CDs.
> >
> > Here's an example of page set up for team Munich city Muenchen country Germany
> >    http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2011/Germany/Muenchen/Munich
> >    http://berklix.org/sfd/
> >
> > Please consider joining with other free software groups in your
> > local city to get a team together for http://www.softwarefreedomday.org
> > If you'r quick about it, you can get a publicity starter pack of
> > freebies from softwarefreedomday.org
> >
> > PS I hold no official position or remit etc with any of
> >         softwarefreedomday.org
> >         freebsd.org
> >         freebsdfoundation.org
> > I'm just a long term user&  code contributor to FreeBSD,
> > &  a team leader for softwarefreedomday.org for my local city.
> >
> > Its an opportunity for us to co-operate globaly for a day, with
> > other BSD&  Linux&  FSF&  Perl&  Apache etc people in our individual cities.
>
>
> I imagine Microsoft smile when free source groups squable
> amongst themselves for crumbs falling off the edge of the table.
> Best avoid the divide&  lose route of:
>         BSD v Linux v.,
>         &  Linux { Debian v RedHat v Ubuntu v ...  }
>         &  BSD { Free v Net v Open v Dragon v ... }
>         &  Gnome v KDE&  gcc V. clang  ... etc etc
> &  unite to convince some MS market share to migrate to free source.
>
> Creating city teams can be done by anyone, no programmer skill needed.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian