Re: RFD: Debian advertising in LJ, elsewhere
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Chris Lawrence wrote:
Two comments. Cost per vendor?
As far as I am concerned it would need to have a strong
international flavour.
Phil.
> I think it might be a good idea for all of the Debian vendors (or many
> of them, at any rate) to put in some money toward running an ad in LJ,
> featuring the new logo, and touting Debian's technical superiority
> over the other distributions.
>
> Basically, the idea is to run a full-page ad, the top 2/3 of which
> would just be a general advertisement for Debian (# of packages, most
> complete architecture support of any distribution, superior package
> management system, compatibility with Linux standards, open
> development model, etc.); at the bottom, an alphabetical list of the
> ad's sponsors would be presented, with perhaps something like "Get
> Debian from any of these vendors:" over the top.
>
> I'd like to do something that would coincide with the release of
> potato (2.2). If something comes of the "GNU Inside" effort, it could
> incorporate that too (perhaps in lieu of using "GNU/Linux", though I
> guess that would be up to a majority of the paying participants in the
> ad).
>
> Any comments?
>
>
> Chris
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