On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 10:12 +1000, draicone@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@truthisfreedom.org.uk Please use ISO Approved file formats (.odt/.ods/.odp/.odg/.pdf) for attachments. If you wish to convert legacy Microsoft documents to these formats, please use Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/)