In this page I try to collect useful links and informations in freeBSD advocacy. This include presentations made by developers with significant informations and numbers we ca use to promote FreeBSD and other papers you can found on the internet.
FreeBSD flyers
For a while Daniel Seuffert and the allBSD team works on this to provide hi-quality and up-to-date flyers we uses during the major conventions in Europe. The flyers are available in many languages, including English, German and French. New writers/translators are, I think, welcome.
The freeBSD project offer also some flyers, I think this material is not really up-to-date.
Presentations
Some freeBSD enthusiastics made presentations about FreeBSD. From most of them we can extract useful informations and numbers to help newcomers to understand what the FreeBSD project is and how this works.
FreeBSD 7 and beyond
I fist want to point the excellent presentation made by Kris Kennaway, and call “FreeBSD 7 and beyond” who introduce fresh metrics and benchmarks to prove FreeBSD power is not like the Lock Ness monster, a complete legend or something form the past. Is also cover all the improvements made available by the FreeBSD team for the 7.x branch
Who the FreeBSD project works
Another major contribution is the “Who the FreeBSD project works” presentation made by Robert Watson. Although this presentation was made the tour of the word, most informations are pretty valuables.
- The Robert Watson talk in the google video.
Videos
- Complete Hard Disk Encryption with FreeBSD @ the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress
- FreeBSD is Dying - Funny and educative FreeBSD presentation with BSD history.
Posters & Goodies
In 2008, for the RMLL I made, helped by my cousin a poster in A3 format. You can see a pictures of our boot camp here. The original version of the poster in pdf format, 300 dpi, including some mistakes and ready to print is freely available.
If you use it, please be sure you are following the FreeBSD foundation requirements.
- The poster in PDF format can be downloaded.
I also made another poster in French for the EuroBSDCon 2008, it's not the official one but I assume it can be used before the official one comes. Of course I submit it for approval. The printing format is also A3.
