Marketing Team
Market SFD world-wide! This page is dedicated to providing teams resources to help them with their own Software Freedom Day organisation to get the word out. Please add links to your own resources for others.
Generic resources
Examples of press releases from around the world
2005 Australian Press Release - By Pia Waugh
Software Freedom Day Press Release and Background info - At the Computer Professionals' Union in the Phillipines
Information sources about FOSS
Places to send press releases and announcements
- Slashdot
- LUGRadio
- LXer
- Linux Today
- Linuxworld
- delicious
- IOSN
- Social Networking sites
- Mailing lists
- Local Media Outlets - Radio, Newspapers, TV stations.
- Local What's On and Event listings (upcoming.org,...)
Direct Awareness
(brainstorming ideas here ...)
eBay awareness -- Let's make a few products early on and start selling them on eBay. This might just be T-shirts and bumper stickers from CafePress; we probably won't make any money from it, or even sell any items, but that's OK because we get the name and the idea out there where millions will read about it. We will of course include a link to the site, which will help the google ranking if nothing else. -- Needs volunteers
- Blogosphere - actively encourage team members to blog about software freedom day, talk about the activities they are planning, and add links back to the website.
- Flyers - A simple one page flyer that can be customized to the local event. Something with the SFD logo and the date, with fill-in-the-blanks for local team to fill in time and location. Print, Fill in, Copy, and Disperse. If this is already available, please email (zerovertex at gmail dot com) and let me know, and link to it from this wiki page. Otherwise, I'll start work on it and check back in when I've got something made. Thanks.