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 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
