OK here is my view as much as it is worth.
There are a couple of points of view that are going back and forth.
On Saturday night at Ubuntu Vancouver's "Main Event", Randall showed a
few slides from Google indicating a fall in the interest "Googled"
regarding Ubuntu over the last several months. Thi
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 19:07 -0300, Lisandro Vaccaro wrote:
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> However Ubuntu doesn't even have a clear mission, I mean "a OS for
> everybody in any language" sounds great but it's totally flawed, first
> because it's not a lot more accessible than any other OS and second
> because the other OS ar
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 20:06 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
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> Yes, but we are still talking about marketing, aren't we? Humans are
> social animals, yes. That's why Ubuntu has Facebook, Twitter and
> integration with peoples favorite IM built right into it. That's what
> most people care about
This kind of debates can go on forever. Unless we finally decide what are
our sentiments regarding this kind of issues we'll never move forward than
being a place to toss out ideas.
And believe it or not there isn't a Canonical team ready to work on these
ideas and nobody except ourselves will do
This kind of debates can go on forever. Unless we finally decide what are
our sentiments regarding this kind of issues we'll never move forward than
being a place to toss out ideas.
And believe it or not there isn't a Canonical team ready to work on this
ideas, there'll never be one, for a lot of
On 16 August 2010 16:37, Martin Owens wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 16:01 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
>> Yes, but I think it's easier to sell instant gratification than it is
>> to sell the long term benefits of altruism.
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> Humanism isn't a long term consideration, it's just how we're bui
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 16:01 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> Yes, but I think it's easier to sell instant gratification than it is
> to sell the long term benefits of altruism.
Humanism isn't a long term consideration, it's just how we're built to
work. Humans are social animals and there are m
On 16 August 2010 09:40, Martin Owens wrote:
> Or just "What is this?", I'm a lefty so I don't personally subscribe to
> the notion that a human beings default position is selfish personal
> gratification.
Yes, but I think it's easier to sell instant gratification than it is
to sell the long ter
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 09:21 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> Our marketing should not be about giving thanks to all the great
> contributors and distributors of free software. Is should be about
> answering the one question that matters: "What's in it for me?"
Or just "What is this?", I'm a le
On 15 August 2010 19:11, shankara wrote:
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> All different Linux distributions are part of a same ecosystem and we
> need to stress on that in our marketing exercise. Success of ubuntu is
> the success of GnU/linux as a whole.
[snip]
And vice versa. Obsiously, Ubuntu wouldn't be what it i
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