For those working to show others the value of free software, it is immensely helpful to have stories from users and organizations who have successfully converted from proprietary software. It can make the difference in someone's decision to begin using free software over buying into the latest proprietary trap.
As we announced in our most recent Bulletin and at the 2005 associate member meeting, the Free Software Foundation is collecting such stories from our community to meet that need. Everyone on this list uses free software in some capacity, so everyone has something to contribute to this section. All you have to do is describe how and why you use free software. This is an urgent project for us. Please send in your story, and do anything you can to help draw attention to it. You'll be seeing more go up on the fsf.org and gnu.org web sites about it as the week progresses. Please send your contributions to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In your e-mail, be sure to let us know what contact information and affiliation you would like to be displayed with your story. We will not include your e-mail address unless you ask us to, but we will include your name and company in the published version, unless you request otherwise. You can see the examples we have already collected at <http://www.fsf.org/resources/testimonials>. You can see that many of them are just a paragraph or two. That's fine; the length is up to you. Please do a short one now, even if you intend to write a more improved version later. We'll be happy to update it for you, but it's very important that we get your contribution up now, for this initial push to get the project going. If you use free software in two very different capacities, for example, at home and at work, you might consider writing two separate testimonials. That way we could separate them, if we end up breaking the category listing down to a separation between testimonials for businesses and organizations to consider, and those for individual users to consider. We look forward to reading and publishing these stories! A few minutes of your time will make a lasting contribution to the effort to increase the number of free software users in the world. -- John Sullivan Program Administrator | Phone: (617)542-5942 x23 51 Franklin Street, 5th Fl. | Fax: (617)542-2652 Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | GPG: AE8600B6 # Get RMS's voice on your answering machine: # http://member.fsf.org/referral-2004 _______________________________________________ Info-member mailing list <[email protected]> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-member
