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

["Julian H. Stacey" <jhs%berklix.com@localhost>]

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
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com
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