[ Thanks to Russell
C Pavlicek for this link. ]
“In the open source community, it is generally understood
that there are three kinds of advocating, each kind having its own
goal and tactics. Based on talks and documents from advocacy
gurus Eric Raymond, Russell Pavlicek, and Barry Caplin (as well as
an exclusive interview with Raymond), we will take a look at each
kind of advocacy in detail.”
“Advocates for open source generally fall into three groups. You
might be a hacker working with a group of conservative engineers
and wanting to get the word out to co-workers (Russell Pavlicek has
some suggestions for you), or you might already be part of an open
source project in the office — perhaps underground — and need to
get the word out to management to secure financial or official
support (Barry Caplin has some pointers for you). Or you might be
what Eric Raymond calls a “meme hacker” working for the greater
good of corporate culture and the world by convincing everyone to
convert every piece of software to open source and to do it
yesterday. These are the three kinds of advocacy we’ll explore in
this article.”