BSD media is going to 200 cities for http://softwarefreedomday.org

Mark Lein mark at lein.ca
Wed Aug 24 23:38:14 UTC 2011


On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:

> Hi advocacy at freebsd.org
> BSD media is in transit to 200 global cities for
> http://softwarefreedomday.org in 23 days
>
> However it &/or other BSD media will need copying to keep up with Linux
> as theres a Lot more free Ubuntu CDROMs going out at the same time,
> (a question of what richest sponsor pays most for)
>
> You could offer to run off a batch for your local city's SFD team.
> Maybe charge a beer or coffee copying charge per media to cover cost ?
>
> You could join the softwarefreedomday.org team in your local city,
> to help promote free software.
>        http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011
>
> A sample from Munich Germany http://berklix.org/sfd/
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
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Now first off, don't get me wrong as I love FreeBSD... but wouldn't it make
more sense to send out something like PC-BSD? Something that people can run
without muss nor fuss, like Ubuntu?

Mark


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