Support Trisquel review suggestion for the Linux Action Show

Having reviewers who do not care at all about freedom and, as a consequence,
will mainly point out the technical drawbacks over proprietary software (to
drive the Wifi card, to read Flash, to play 3D games, etc.). What is the
point?

Ha like minutes after the release announcement I sent an email on
jupiterbroadcasting.com to suggest talking about Trisquel in their next show.
Hopefully they will mention and/or review it for not only being a pure libre
distribution, but one that is sticking to its guns with the classic desktop
in a Gnome 3 and Unity world.

I've read all of replies against my idea, and I think you're both being a bit
ridiculous. Even if this interview/review totally flopped, it still gets word
out of our humble system to people who have never even heard of a free
distro.

If you haven't noticed, we aren't very popular, and this sort of publicity
would really be beneficial.

Now let's imagine the review goes great, and they give us kudos for making a
great os even without any proprietary technology.. that's great, really
great. Even if they say "you won't have full web access, since they use Gnash
instead of Flash." Good. I hope they point out the things we can't do. You
know why? We will get users looking for full freedom, and people won't start
asking us for support for proprietary programs.

In the best scenario, Ruben would have an interview, and this would, I think,
turn out very well. Ruben could concisely explain the difference between our
system, and others, and explain what are missions and goals are, and explain
the reasoning for things like sticking to GNOME 3 fallback.

I started using Trisquel in part because of the publicity around the Free
Software Foundation and GNU. (and of course the drama around RMS)

I've done a number of interviews over the years in relation to GNU/Linux
and/or free software in a number of formats. From radio and TV to newspapers
and online mediums.

Things you want to avoid in an interview: other people who against freedom.
These people will simply argue with you and it doesn't do anybody any good.

Where the other interviewer is not against free software it gets a bit
easier. You can essentially take over the interview in many cases and
emphasise what it is your organisation/group/company/etc is trying to
accomplish.

Stallman gives an example about a printer in his interviews/speeches. I like
to talk about modern technology and how we continue to see the same problems
again and again. Be it "Winmodems", graphics drivers, printers, or other
peripherals. It always comes down to non-free software.

Richard Stallman is probably a better person to talk to about interviewing in
print media. I haven't figure that one out yet. I believe his approach
doesn't work well for most people though. He essentially refuses to do the
interview unless the interviewer uses particular words (GNU/Linux not Linux,
Free Software not Open Source, etc).

I once did up a nice write up of sorts to help a reporter for a small college
newspaper write accurately about the GNU/Linux, Free Software, and an
initiative a user group and I were working on. The paper sent a reporter who
was majoring in computer science. Despite having written up a nice little
fact sheet and emphasising certain things for clarity about the differences
between open source and free software the entire article got ruined because
the reporter used the words open source and only open source in the entire
article.

Getting your message across isn't easy. I did another interview with a Lehigh
Valley newspaper in Pennsylvania. It was much better. However- the interview
was printed in a question/answer format so it was harder to screw up. The
reporter still managed it.

Long story short- reporters and other media personalities are very rarely
your friend. I think the best interview I ever did was with the Linux Link
Tech show. There were very few questions, it was live, and for the most part
I took up the entire interview speaking. It was almost more of a speech than
an Interview.

Ideally your right. And there is a saying that goes something to the effect any publicity even negative publicity is good for your business.

Ideally your right. And there is a saying that goes something to the effect
any publicity even negative publicity is good for your business.

Do you have any idea about the Wifi chipset and the video card that are used
to test the distributions? The odds are that they will neither have a Wifi
connection (you need to carefully choose your chipset to actually have it
working with Linux-libre) nor a 3D acceleration (these guys are found of
video games and probably have an nVidia or an AMD card). Having Trisquel
tagged as "the distribution that does not allow you to go on the Web and play
video games" (the Linux Action Show does not give a damn about freedom) will
not be good in any way.