Hi list, And this is another story I just wanted to comment with you. I once was taking about Linux and GNOME with my young cousin who was using his Windows computer and when he got a bit interested in trying it he just opened a window with his favorite P2P client (in this case BearShare which happens to be a Gnutella network client) and started searching for GNOME.
The results were ridiculous and mostly refering to little creatures living in the gardens. I then suggested a search for "Ubuntu" and finally some ISO images of this GNOME-based desktop distro appeared and he started downloading... I would have never looked for GNOME software on a P2P network but only then I realized than many windows users, specially all this young masses getting their favorite music and movies from those sources turn to this kind of programs when they think of getting stuff they want. Only then I recalled a chat with a young graphics designer I had some months ago and she commented all the software (Macromedia) she has had been "downloaded from the Internet". She was meaning P2P networks for sure. Then I suggested she should try The GIMP and explained that was what I used myself even on Windows and she said she might give it a try. Maybe she just looked for it with her Gnutella client and never found it. Ok, we all know about Google but since this is a marketing list I just wanted to make sure if we were in a position to try to push the idea and ask our user base to get including GNOME related stuff in their own P2P shared files. A short list of stuff that could be there could be: - GNOME Live CD iso - Ubuntu ISOs properly renamed to something like this: Ubuntu-5.4-GNOME-Linux-Desktop-i386-install.iso - HTML documentation in .tar.gz (or even .zip) formats - Some short video explaining what the whole GNOME thing is? :) - Some nice "marketing" PDF document for starters? - A compilation of free GNOME tutorials, books and stuff (in .rar. format?) You get the idea. If you like the idea maybe I could set up a page explaining this in l.g.o and then we could start pushing the idea mailing our local linux lists (or whenever our users are) so they get the whole thing rolling... What do you think? Jason. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list