[ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot - Advocacy

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

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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?
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