Tay Zonday undoubtedly gets closer than I will but is a server on the Internet the closest thing to Sam Colt's "great equalizer"?
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Chris Erardi <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:42 PM, John Walsh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> > I see little to "sell" at the current stage, apart from >> > dreams and opportunities to contribute. I find the wiki >> > appropriate for that. >> I think we need to sell the "dream" better to draw in more volunteers and >> donations. It's too confusing now. >> > > I agree with you fully on this point. The dream can currently only be sold > to those who are technical enough to understand where the project is, and > where is intends to be. I have personally found myself having a difficult > time explaining the "dream" to people around me. It usually takes hours and > several hypothetical situations. > > But in that, I have noticed one important thing. No one enjoys hearing me > talk about DNS, or free software philosophies; they like to hear about the > "future", and all of the fantastic things this project will enable. > > Perhaps things are nice the way they are now, in terms of building interest > amongst the technical minded people. Though a jobs board would be nice... We > don't mind the debian blend, some of us actually enjoy it. But perhaps it > would be beneficial to increase donations and public interest/support by > developing a more media-friendly website for the project. One which would > not contain technical details, or IRC logs, but which would contain teaser > content to make people's mouths water. Videos which show people using the > box to set up a personal site, or to get around censorship. Mock-ups and > prototypes. > > Naturally, links would exist to the wiki and to the foundation site. > Showing the project in videos in a "this is how it will be" state should > make things seem like less of a "dream" and more of a "next big thing". > > -- > Christopher Erardi > CEO - Software Engineer - Amatoc Industries > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > -- Kindness Works! Rev. Jim Tarvid, PCA 12897A Grays Pointe Road, Fairfax, Va 22033 38.8778239, -77.392696 http://ls.net
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