-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/12/14 16:50, Barry Titterton wrote: > Hi All, > > IMHO members who wish to engage in advocacy need to go to where > the people are. We, in the UK, are surrounded by a population who > are either ignorant or apathetic to FOSS so, in order to reach out > to them, we need to take a more general approach. I feel that one > approach could be by manning a stall that promotes FOSS at local > community fêtes or festivals. This may well get the name and > philosophy known to a wide cross section of the population. > > Last summer I helped to man a stall at an eco festival near to my > home. The presentation of our stall was rather thin as it was a > very last minute decision to attend and we had little time to > prepare promotional material, but we had quite a lot of interest > from the visitors to the festival. I hope to present the stall > again this summer but with better prepared advocacy material. The > point that I want to make is that good quality promotional > material: banners, posters etc, are expensive. Would it be possible > for the team to have a set of professional quality advocacy > materials that could be loaned out for these sorts of events? > Although the transport cost for moving bulky objects around the > country would also be quite high as well. > > I'm sure that there are members of this mailing list that already > do this kind of thing so what are your thoughts and advice? > > Regards, > > Barry T >
Maybe a good route in to ordinary people might be the security and privacy advantages of FOSS compared with MS and Windows post-Snowden? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUiCApAAoJEO4y8v/rA+4Nah4P/RLMqN075XslouhX//2FVuvO JUFVQKn0WQY3kA4M+zlcg4V974MyW2B6K+1+sqV4FoxVBwsmXspDimynmxYiBL/Z wun9Rkxz1M6yWM2G6dpCrwrUfL3CqZMl5L7e7xAio4VKCn4SScuGzocg8/QgXd/k NHjNF6Qdue+XsEme1B+Zqnp/u3HCMThQwAexyTvmjaMtC8bV1tRQ4Ibs8q0NeiES 7esaBZ3fz3wPbgjjgs/JybdAbsgCmV9fU9Fb1EGZBzpa6YHQGbRkePG7+DiR1jK0 gLru/DakvJ3TKI4vdL+5vjPq27kHE7XcdlwaJJgJcm2psHtgr/Ck3n0+OFoCLX+f /3ccVUZoFUfX40yN4oIrXQ+R8CntDDhizn8CaGjVJBmTVdnriF4+Ww6mRTatX3SI eTnzUsnLaQMrCEYij39vQgvhgChbSPV1jHymDnFht0Dnre0davWZVIC91ai9ZksK LHrdd/ejprR05F0VQ2JXrViD3bajEtTZhcvQ6vMKfsT/xl66Ij1oID1QU1x4oRtk wXAVmI3niznGXtHmpUWuF+V+DZqKbEAwouYa56JhdnOWOlpLM9x8+7qbelH++SkU NeSxfmJYU8PsTUkz/Nqd5rFl6Xd6jlX3cRMRM8tSQR7W5psarZ0h1E/107duwb3j 7pYNN6yjLQfbPRYP9y1R =Oej0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
