Hi,
At the meeting on last Thursday, I mentioned the flyers that were handed out to members of the audience at the recent talk by Darl McBride in Harvard University. For those who are interested, they can be found off the page
http://web.mit.edu/jonas/www/faim/
which describes the talk from the perspective of the authors of the flyers.
Inspired by the flyer for GNU/Linux, I did up my a version on free software which members of the IFSO could hand out at conferences and the like.
See the PDF at http://www.geocities.com/eibhear.geo/IFSO/IFSO-free.pdf The two images I used in the document were modified celtic IFSO logo by Cathal (because it's the one *I* prefer) and the baby GNU image from the GNU web site.
I used scribus to do it up, but it lacks certain functionalities that I was hoping to use. The most disappointing absence was not being able to use bullet points or numbered list like HTML's <UL> and <OL> tags. You can get the scribus version at
http://www.geocities.com/eibhear.geo/IFSO/IFSO-free.scd.gz
(I had to compress it because Yahoo! GeoCities didn't seem to like the contents) and the two images at
http://www.geocities.com/eibhear.geo/IFSO/celtic-font-2-revised-small.png http://www.geocities.com/eibhear.geo/IFSO/baby-gnu-sm.png
Let me know if you're having problems getting them (or if have violated anything by placing them on my own web-site).
What you might want to change: * Anything and everything. This is just a first try. * I am concerned that it might be too packed and that there might be too much information. * Also, I'll point out that there is little discussion about the differences between beer and speech. The initial introduction discussion defines free software in terms of the freedoms it grants, and later in the leaflet I refer to the difference between free software and "freeware". * Finally, I studiously avoided the term "open source". I may be wrong here, but I believe IFSO falls on Mr. Stallman's side of the argument and I wanted to highlight the freedoms that come with the software and not the (consequential) openness of the software's development process.
Let me know what you think, but be warned that due to my current working conditions, I can't reply to the list during office hours.
Sin é,
Éibhear