[wplug-plan] SFD flyer

David Ostroske eksortso at gmail.com
Sat Jul 21 23:12:51 EDT 2007


Vance, what's the response so far on handing out CDs and flyers on
September 15th (Software Freedom Day)?

On 7/7/07, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net> wrote:
> Hopefully there is still interest in distributing CDs for Software
> Freedom Day.  Anticipating that we would hand out both Ubuntu and
> TheOpenCD, I put together a draft of a flyer and put it on the wiki
> <http://wplug.ece.cmu.edu/wiki/index.php/Image:Sfd-2007-flyer.pdf>.

Good stuff. I'd change one word on the explanation of free software:
"based *on* the premise" instead of "based in the premise."
http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/based.html

I don't know many resources for Ubuntu (I'm a Fedora user). We should
definitely include basic links.
http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://www.theopencd.org/

I've heard that the Ubuntu forums are very good.
http://ubuntuforums.org/

There is no single forum for the Open CD, though the distributors are
more than happy to accept questions by email. Probably a few forums
for the software packages themselves would be worth including, just to
prove that there's good help available. However, I don't know which
forums are best.
http://www.mozilla.org/support/
http://www.oooforum.org/
http://www.gimptalk.com/

> I was anticipating this being a black-and-white flyer, probably
> would be good to print it on that neon-colored paper to be more
> attention getting.

That's a good idea. Or maybe a gold-colored paper, something similar
to Tux's feet. Or perhaps a bright orange, similar to what
softwarefreedomday.org uses.

> Let me know if you have any thoughts about the layout or other
> improvements to suggest.  If anyone wants, I can send you the
> original Scribus file to work on.  Thanks.

-- 
David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com>



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