[SFD-discuss] Planning for SFD 2008 - Your ideas and input!

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 10:12 +1000, draicone at gmail.com wrote:
> What I'd love to see is a set of consistent materials for the talks at
> events.
> 
> Every year Microsoft gets all their MVPs together and works out the
> messages they'll be sending out for the next twelve months. Every year
> SFD event visitors are given inconsistent explanations of the concepts
> behind SFD, FOSS, GNU/Linux etc. 
> 
> I'm not saying we need to formalise a propoganda machine, but the
> success at which MS manages to get its message across should be a good
> indication that a consistent message is a successful one. If we had,
> say, a set of community developed slideshows to use during the event,
> and we spoke based on the points on those slideshows, we'd probably
> manage to educate the public much better. 
> 
> We've got some resources for SFD events as it is, we just don't
> formally have one set of notes and discussion points we're going to
> use for our events.
> 
> Comments?

The Open Source Consortium is trying to achieve a similar goal, with a
specific aim to develop materials that can be used by our members to
target the public/education sectors.

I will approach the membership and see if the are willing for some of
this work to be released into the public domain once it has been
created.

Regards,

Matt.
-- 
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk

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