hi folks, sorry for crossposting this to debian-project but a quick look at the archive showed that the signal/noise ratio in debian-publicity, where this mail should go to, is 0. sad btw.
i am currently working in vietnam, and me and some people here want to start a bit of a linux advocacy campaign because open software is really not very popular here. it would be two parts actually, one series of linux flyers targeted at anyone with a computer, and a debian-specific flyer for people in the it business or people who have already been exposed to unix-like systems before, and should show debians benefits relative to other linux distributions. we did a bit of brainstorming and came up with the following outline, and if anyone of you has additional ideas or comments i would be more than happy to hear them. DEBIAN FLYER OUTLINE -------------------- - slogan/title "debian gnu/linux -- the universal operating system" /* this is an semi-official slogan and should not be translated but * rather be kept in english */ - some basic facts about debian /* this should be a bit of history, the realtion to the fsf, the dfsg, * the social contract, and a bit about debian as an organization. * also show off with the number of supported architectures and the * number of developers here */ /* a list of reasons that speak for debian, also in contrast to other * distributions */ - truly free /* not a comemrcial vendor, everything gets pushed upstream, comitted * to free software, transparency */ - massive package base /* show off with the numbers, state trends */ - stable, maintained /* we don't only pack the software, we maintain it. some packages * differ much from the upstream sources. we prefer proven stable * versions over cutting-edge features */ - package management system /* we have a very sophisticated package management system, in-place * upgrades, proper dependency tracking, server restarts on upgrade, * automated checks for packages */ - security /* we have a very competent security team, packages with security * flaws can easily be replaced, most of our users and developers are * extremly security-sensitive so this has a very high priority */ - one "downside" /* we take the point that most people criticize about debian and make * it useless as an argument here. not such a "nice" setup and the * like. but we are working on it, and most people install it only * once anyway because after that everything works ^-^ */ - pointers /* debian.org, docs section, debianhelp */ thanks robert
