Dear Marcos,
thank you very much for your feedback, that is very helpful.
* Marcos Marado mindboosternoori@gmail.com [2016-08-03 13:13:05 +0000]:
For FSFE materials, two things came out as no surprise, but confirmation: people don't care about the free your android materials, and stickers are way more interesting than anything else.
Stickers usually taken way more than leaflets. On the other hand the F-Droid leaflet has a good demand at technical events, and if people are interested in using their Android without google.
The third one, which I hadn't notice before, was that this particular "hacking for freedom" sticker was in high demand (so much that we don't have any left). Not only I saw people taking them, I actually saw three different laptops with them sticked already, in one of them it was even the sole sticker.
One of the reasons I might have not noticed this before: this was the first time since we had them that we actually bothered to cut/separate all of them before the event (instead of having a strip of them).
That is a good hint.
@Olga: can you make sure that we cut more of those already before?
Anyway, and actually replying to your e-mail:
- I wasn't actually asking for new materials, but since we'll have Rui on
the FSFE Summit, where I guess you'll have all your materials, maybe he could bring a new pack of stuff from you, maybe including those stickers? We'll have Software Freedom Day a couple of weekends after, so they sure wuild be useful there;
@Olga/Cellini: can you make sure we have them at the summit booth?
- While I have one of those stickers on my laptop, myself, I do agree with
you that while the message is great, the colors/design could be better. Maybe the fact that even like this the stickers are successful should be a hint for FSFE to make a "new version" of them?;
Elio offered to do a new version. Depending on how fast he is, we might already have it for the summit.
- The event wasn't even technical. We were invited to be present on a music
festival, which had an afternoon of talks and workshops on themes related to "alternative/free lifestyles" (permaculture and so on), our talk was about "free technology", followed by one about the "hacker culture". Most people there weren't teck savvy, but I was actually surprised to how successful the talk was: it seems that the public on "trance festivals" have an open mind to the free software message, I know that at least a couple of people actually acted upon information they learnt during the session!
Really interesting. Did you publish something about it? Maybe we can link to it from the next newsletter.
All the best, Matthias