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From: Brian_de_Alwis@oti.com (Brian de Alwis OTT)
To: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG (netbsd-advocacy), root@garbled.net (root)
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Organization: Object Technology International Inc
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:34:49 -0400
Subject: RE: Some ideas for advocacy


>GIMP Logo contests:
>Every month The Gimp (www.gimp.org) runs a logo contest or some form of
>drawing
>contest.  The idea here is, we've been bantering around about some nice new
>logos for NetBSD, and various forms of artwork.  Perhaps we could talk to 
the
>gimp.org people, make a "contest page" on our server, and get a link, or 
even
>have them run the contest for us.  This could get us a) some notice from 
the
>gimp user community, and b) a ton of free artwork for us to choose from.

The gimp contest works because the participants are gimp fanatics. But as 
many of the gimpers seem to be heavily biased towards Linux, I don't think 
we'll get nearly enough participation.

I think it's important that we cause NetBSD to be associate with important 
concepts, rather than just implanting the NetBSD name in people's heads.

Linux, for example, was focussed on PC hackers: if you hacked PCs and Unix, 
then you ran Linux. You got frequent updates for hardware support (the code 
may not have been pretty, but it ran). You were recompiling every other day, 
but the hackers didn't find that much of a bother. It satisfied the hackers. 
It became the hacker's OS. At least, that's what it seemed to me.

Maybe we should focus on some specific 'markets' (ugh). Different groups 
will find different parts of NetBSD's functionality more cool than others. 
What is important to the researchers is different from the PC hackers which 
is different from the 24x7 ISPs.

My suggestion is to hghlight some 'success' stories on the web. Highlight 
why they chose NetBSD, and the ease that they had doing whatever they 
needed.

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