Sowing the Seeds of Open Source Advocacy
By Jono Bacon
03/03/2005
The Importance of the Message
Within the open source community, advocacy is as critical as contributing source code, patches, or documentation. Although advocacy is not a technical contribution, it is critically important to spread the message of open source to other people in a language that is cohesive to their context. It is easy to preach to the converted when advocating open source to people at Linux user groups and trade shows, but standing in front of a board of executives who care little about computers–let alone a facet of computers, such as open source–is quite a challenge.