Linked by Henrik Nilsen Omma on Tue 9th Mar 2004 05:48 UTC
You, the reader, are hereby invited to participate in a celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on August 28th this year. On that day we will stage public events to inform the general public about the virtues of FOSS. We invite you to form local teams and set up tables in town centers, shopping malls, or wherever there are likely to be lots of people on a Saturday.
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Good idea! Good work!
Let's do all we can to get the message across.
There are various other FLOSS (open source/software libre) `marketing' activities underway or being planned around the world,
some by individuals, some by groups, some supported by vendors, others by (regional) governments (eg http://www.guadalinex.org/ distributing a further 100,000 CDs this year in Andalusia).
It is important that the (marketing) activity continues all year round.
We should use the last Saturday* in August to
continue the activity, especially in bringing it to the notice of those who may not yet have had the luck to enjoy FLOSS, and also
to celebrate some of the success stories and large scale activities.
It should also give the opportunity to build local support communities.
*Perhaps it should be extended over the weekend since Saturday will be (culturally) unsuitable for some.
Thanks, Henrik, Phil, Matt, et al.