Hi people,
in the last months the fellowship group in Vienna was working on a
leaflet which shall be used as an introduction into Free Software for
people who didn't think about it so far at all.
We feel that our old leaflets are great for people to learn more about
specific subjects, but are (sometimes) too heavy for complete newbies to
the subject of Free Software.
Therefore we wanted to use an easy to grasp comparison explaining what
freedom in the sense of Free Software really means and present it in a
friendly accessible layout. We came up with tools.
The text basically tells what consequences it would have if tools would
be as restricted as proprietary software and that there is no good
reason to accept such absurd conditions.
Attached you can find the version of the leaflet our team in Vienna has
agreed on. If you are happy with it and if the content gets approved
from our European team as well we could share our SVG-files and do
translations to get those folders for all local groups who want them.
Since we didn't use any pre-fabricated material everything is free for
improvements and adaptations. (I even checked with the FSF if we are
allowed to use the book cover "Free Software Free Society" for this
purpose on our leaflets.)
We worked on a black and white version for easy printing as well, but
didn't get to a final draft there yet. (In my opinion a black and white
version is very handy if you need more leaflets fast, but of course the
coloured version is much more tempting for most people.) It has a
different text and layout. Therefore it wouldn't look strange to have
both leaflets at once on one booth. I'll send you our black and white
draft as well as soon as we have developed it to a final version...
Best,
Franz
