Re: [ubuntu-marketing] [Fwd: FCN submission - your reaction,
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:22:20PM -0500, John Botscharow wrote: Have you considered or tried speech generation? I have used voice chat on other chat programs, but not in Linux. Not sure how to set it up and it would only work if everyone in the room used it :o) That's probably asking a bit much. There exists software to turn the text that other people are sending into speech. I'm not sure how well it'll keep up with IRC but might help (and it is probably worth slowing meetings down so that it could keep up if it can't). http://live.gnome.org/Orca Robert Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com Instructions should be read first, or not at all. Anything else is admitting defeat... -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] Marketing material needs a home
Hi there, I'm new to this list since about 12 hours so let me just give a quick introduction and then cut straight to the chase. My name is Tord Jansson, I'm 33 years old and live in a mid-sized Swedish town called Norrköping. CTO for a small software company by day, dedicated Ubuntu advocate by night (or mostly evenings, mornings and weekends to be precise). Two months ago I started a personal crusade to market Ubuntu in my local town and build up a strong local user base. I acknowledge this will take time and persistence and I hope to see some tangible results 2-3 years down the line with a local and very active Ubuntu-club. My first step was to create some adverts and posters to put on public noticeboards around town. So far I have made 5 different adverts/posters and of the first one I have now put up more than 200 copies in mostly building entrances. I expect to at least double that before the end of the summer. The rest of the posters are being saved for future activities. The posters are currently in Swedish only, but I have put them all in a zip-archive reachable from this URL if you want to take a look: http://www.savefile.com/files/1600643 They have all been made in Scribus and the source code for all except number five is reachable from this page: http://www.savefile.com/projects/808633832 Sorry about the advertisement and crap you will have to step through... Anyway, my reasons for posting this to your mailing-list are the following: 1. I believe these adverts can be useful to many more than myself once they have been translated to English. Decent marketing material for Ubuntu seems with a few exceptions to be hard to find. 2. I will need help to translate these to English. I can make a fully understandable translation myself but the text will need to be polished afterwards so it reaches the right professional marketing level. Any volunteers? 3. I need a good place to store these adverts and any future material I make. Preferably it should be a shared place where marketing material from various sources is gathered, scrutinized by a community, categorized and provided for easy download. I believe that is one of the goals with the Ubuntu-marketing team, so what are the plans and has work been started on a site like that? Is there any interim solution that is recommended? 4. I want feedback on my work (although this might be hard to give until I have translated the texts). Tell me whether you agree or disagree on the way I market Ubuntu. Is it too confrontational? too careful? too much text? too little information? focusing on the wrong things? I want my adverts to reflect the spirit of the Ubuntu community while at the same time being catchy and fun. Most of all they should just do the job of informing people of Ubuntu in a honest and interesting way. All feedback is welcome. 5. I'll be happy to discuss grass-root marketing tactics and pool resources with anyone doing the same in their local community. I understand a lot of that will happen here, right? Anyway, keep up the good work everyone. Ubuntu is a great distribution and I'm personally convinced that it just needs some more public exposure and mindshare to really take off. Regards, Tord Jansson Norrköping, Sweden -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing material needs a home
On 10/06/08 14:29, Tord Jansson wrote: The posters are currently in Swedish only, but I have put them all in a zip-archive reachable from this URL if you want to take a look: http://www.savefile.com/files/1600643 They have all been made in Scribus and the source code for all except number five is reachable from this page: http://www.savefile.com/projects/808633832 Sorry about the advertisement and crap you will have to step through... I'm in the process of downloading them and will put them on the wiki. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] [Fwd: FCN submission - your reaction,
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:25:23 +0100 Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:22:20PM -0500, John Botscharow wrote: Have you considered or tried speech generation? I have used voice chat on other chat programs, but not in Linux. Not sure how to set it up and it would only work if everyone in the room used it :o) That's probably asking a bit much. There exists software to turn the text that other people are sending into speech. I'm not sure how well it'll keep up with IRC but might help (and it is probably worth slowing meetings down so that it could keep up if it can't). http://live.gnome.org/Orca Robert Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com Instructions should be read first, or not at all. Anything else is admitting defeat... Robert, TYV M I will install orca and give it try BTW. I like your signature :-) Very true! - -- Peace! John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFITjsqsTN+hz1Fu7URAhODAKDLlHa301cYqHxDlM36nVln9xY/CQCdGJM4 R6GqPBgh4jKxthoBAKgsZ9k= =4dlw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing material needs a home
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Tord Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm new to this list since about 12 hours so let me just give a quick Welcome !! The posters are currently in Swedish only, but I have put them all in a [snip] 1. I believe these adverts can be useful to many more than myself once they have been translated to English. I could help with proof-reading so let me know when the English versions are ready. -- Vid || http://www.svaksha.com || -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Looking for geek/Linux themed comics
Ronnie Tucker pisze: I was thinking about putting a page of comics in to Full Circle and was wondering if you folks know of any good geek/Linux themed comics? Thinking of putting three, maybe four, different comics on one page. Comics need to be Creative Commons licensed, and obviously I'll link from the PDF to the artists site. Unless someone out there has good ideas for a comic. I can draw but my comedy writing skills aren't that great. Thanks! http://www.luvrgeeks.com/ - CC-BY-NC 3.0 http://osnews.com/comics - not CC but maybe you could ask author for relicensing. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] Fwd: Marketing material needs a home
FYI, sent this directly to VidA by misstake. /Tord -- Forwarded message -- From: Tord Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/6/10 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing material needs a home To: VidA [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/6/10 VidA [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Tord Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could help with proof-reading so let me know when the English versions are ready. Great! I'll send them directly to you as soon as I have the rough translations done and then we can present them together to this list once they have been finalized. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] Fwd: Marketing material needs a home
Made same misstake with this one... /Tord -- Forwarded message -- From: Tord Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2008/6/10 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing material needs a home To: Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/6/10 Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/06/08 14:29, Tord Jansson wrote: The posters are currently in Swedish only, but I have put them all in a zip-archive reachable from this URL if you want to take a look: They look very nice and some are extremely funny, but before I can put them up, I need to have a one-on-one mapping between the source and the output PDF. Thanks! Glad you liked them :) They are all there and should be easy to map since names should be the same, otherwise the source archives contains the PDFs as well so you can always open to check. Where does this file fit in? * ubuntu-8.04-antligen-har-anslagstavla.zip That was my first advert and it references Ubuntu 8.04 as just having been released. Since that is no longer the case I have modified the text a bit and replaced it with ditt fria alternativ which is a more timeless version. I believe this will all clear up as soon as I have translated them to English though... :) -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing material needs a home
Hi Tord Fantastisk arbeid! On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Tord Jansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm new to this list since about 12 hours so let me just give a quick introduction and then cut straight to the chase. My name is Tord Jansson, I'm 33 years old and live in a mid-sized Swedish town called Norrköping. CTO for a small software company by day, dedicated Ubuntu advocate by night (or mostly evenings, mornings and weekends to be precise). Two months ago I started a personal crusade to market Ubuntu in my local town and build up a strong local user base. I acknowledge this will take time and persistence and I hope to see some tangible results 2-3 years down the line with a local and very active Ubuntu-club. My first step was to create some adverts and posters to put on public noticeboards around town. So far I have made 5 different adverts/posters and of the first one I have now put up more than 200 copies in mostly building entrances. I expect to at least double that before the end of the summer. The rest of the posters are being saved for future activities. The posters are currently in Swedish only, but I have put them all in a zip-archive reachable from this URL if you want to take a look: http://www.savefile.com/files/1600643 They have all been made in Scribus and the source code for all except number five is reachable from this page: http://www.savefile.com/projects/808633832 Sorry about the advertisement and crap you will have to step through... Anyway, my reasons for posting this to your mailing-list are the following: 1. I believe these adverts can be useful to many more than myself once they have been translated to English. Decent marketing material for Ubuntu seems with a few exceptions to be hard to find. There is a lot of decent marketing material for Ubuntu around but it is hard to find and there is no single place where to find it. This Team is working on fixing that! 2. I will need help to translate these to English. I can make a fully understandable translation myself but the text will need to be polished afterwards so it reaches the right professional marketing level. Any volunteers? I do not have the time to do this (and it seems some people is working on that already), but I'm sending it to the Norwegian LoCo list so we can translate it and use it in Norway. Det er trøss alt lettere å oversette fra svensk til norsk ;-) Vi får se hva som skjer... 3. I need a good place to store these adverts and any future material I make. Preferably it should be a shared place where marketing material from various sources is gathered, scrutinized by a community, categorized and provided for easy download. I believe that is one of the goals with the Ubuntu-marketing team, so what are the plans and has work been started on a site like that? Is there any interim solution that is recommended? This is where you hit the spot. We are working in a project called SpreadUbuntu: See this for more information: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Projects/SpreadUbuntu For the moment we can use the wiki to compile available material. 4. I want feedback on my work (although this might be hard to give until I have translated the texts). Tell me whether you agree or disagree on the way I market Ubuntu. Is it too confrontational? too careful? too much text? too little information? focusing on the wrong things? I want my adverts to reflect the spirit of the Ubuntu community while at the same time being catchy and fun. Most of all they should just do the job of informing people of Ubuntu in a honest and interesting way. All feedback is welcome. Som sagt, veldig bra og kreativt! 5. I'll be happy to discuss grass-root marketing tactics and pool resources with anyone doing the same in their local community. I understand a lot of that will happen here, right? It does already. What we lack is a propper guide to make it easy for others to get started. If your feel like sharing your experiences, please do. We could also work on that in our wiki; (if you should need help with that, just send an e-mail and I will give you a hand getting started with the wiki). Anyway, keep up the good work everyone. Ubuntu is a great distribution and I'm personally convinced that it just needs some more public exposure and mindshare to really take off. +1 Regards, Tord Jansson Norrköping, Sweden Best regards, Rubén - Hubuntu https://launchpad.net/~huayra -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] SpreadUbuntu
Hi there, Imagine this: * A site you can go to where your flyers are already done and translated and all you need is to download it, add your LoCo contact info and print them. * A counter of Ubuntu downloads for all users to see and feel the pride! * A simple way of uploading the posters you just made (aren't they great?) and want to share with the rest of us * An easy way to find other people from where you live using or working with Ubuntu and exchange ideas, cooperate on projects or just take a cofee break with * A site to find those beatiful Ubuntu buttons and banners for your site * A one-site-stop for new (and old ;) users who want to share the Ubuntu love with others * Get access to every single Ubuntu related site and resource in a graciously organized way (Fridge, UWN, FullCircle) * A lot more... SpreadUbuntu is just a good idea! (tm) So... I have drafted a few (very few) thoughts about what we need for SU to get started and going. We should do a lot of thinking before acting here, but let's not stop acting for that. I set up a page on the wiki to analyze what is needed: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/SpreadUbuntu Keep in mind that it is just a draft and it needs *lots* of working. But if you have ideas on how we can get that projects up, a framework for making it successful, ideas of what should be there, experience with compilating material or anything you believe is related please feel free to add your comments on this thread, the wiki or join our IRC and we'll consider them and make them part of our plan! The old site (with many of the same good ideas) is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Projects/SpreadUbuntu Give us a hand building the future of the Ubuntu Marketing experience for the whole Ubuntu community! Best regards, Rubén - Hubuntu https://launchpad.net/~huayra -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] SpreadUbuntu
The link is under the main project page. The site is not up yet AFAIK the link shows ubuntu.com R On 6/10/08, John Botscharow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very cool!!! A link or something annoouncing this on the wiki, perhaps??? BTW, I looked at the site yesterday and I'm pretty sure it's drupal, so if we can get admin access to it, I can do some pretty neat stuff with it, inclusing a wiki, blogs. and RSS feeds. Rubén Hubuntu wrote: Hi there, Imagine this: * A site you can go to where your flyers are already done and translated and all you need is to download it, add your LoCo contact info and print them. * A counter of Ubuntu downloads for all users to see and feel the pride! * A simple way of uploading the posters you just made (aren't they great?) and want to share with the rest of us * An easy way to find other people from where you live using or working with Ubuntu and exchange ideas, cooperate on projects or just take a cofee break with * A site to find those beatiful Ubuntu buttons and banners for your site * A one-site-stop for new (and old ;) users who want to share the Ubuntu love with others * Get access to every single Ubuntu related site and resource in a graciously organized way (Fridge, UWN, FullCircle) * A lot more... SpreadUbuntu is just a good idea! (tm) So... I have drafted a few (very few) thoughts about what we need for SU to get started and going. We should do a lot of thinking before acting here, but let's not stop acting for that. I set up a page on the wiki to analyze what is needed: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/SpreadUbuntu Keep in mind that it is just a draft and it needs *lots* of working. But if you have ideas on how we can get that projects up, a framework for making it successful, ideas of what should be there, experience with compilating material or anything you believe is related please feel free to add your comments on this thread, the wiki or join our IRC and we'll consider them and make them part of our plan! The old site (with many of the same good ideas) is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Projects/SpreadUbuntu Give us a hand building the future of the Ubuntu Marketing experience for the whole Ubuntu community! Best regards, Rubén - Hubuntu https://launchpad.net/~huayra https://launchpad.net/%7Ehuayra -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
[ubuntu-marketing] FOSS Cell phones as marketing opportunity
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Making Jobs' bet even more dangerous is the fact that we're about to see a whole raft of devices coming out that could give the iPhone 3G real competition. Google's open-source operating system for mobile phones, Android, is just about ready to be shown off in many handsets, from makers such as HTC, Motorola, Samsung and LG Electronics. You can bet that many of those phones will be way cheaper than $199. http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1813117,00.html?xid=rss-topstories OpenSource cell phones - the marketing implications of this is AWESOME! Even if Ubuntu is not involved in the software for these phones, every one who gets a FOSS cell phone is a PRIME prospect for a FOSS desktop. Maybe there is some way we can get a list of people who buy these cell phones and send them a mail survey about how they like the FOSS on their phone Every positive response could be sent an Ubuntu disk with a printed, easy-to-read installation guide and then get a follow-up call from the nearest LoCo offering installation assistance The Borg [Microsoft] has a major chink in its armor! And we need to be prepared to exploit it. A marketing team project I think it's worth doing and am willing to take it on Peace! John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFITy8ysTN+hz1Fu7URAuVWAKCWT52XRZdBGyeLQU9oBYyR/H1eBACeOTuk Z2+3A9hXA+/BDmyHCdfrsTk= =4Enb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] FOSS Cell phones as marketing opportunity
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:49 PM, John Botscharow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Making Jobs' bet even more dangerous is the fact that we're about to see a whole raft of devices coming out that could give the iPhone 3G real competition. Google's open-source operating system for mobile phones, Android, is just about ready to be shown off in many handsets, from makers such as HTC, Motorola, Samsung and LG Electronics. You can bet that many of those phones will be way cheaper than $199. http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1813117,00.html?xid=rss-topstories OpenSource cell phones - the marketing implications of this is AWESOME! Even if Ubuntu is not involved in the software for these phones, every one who gets a FOSS cell phone is a PRIME prospect for a FOSS desktop. Maybe there is some way we can get a list of people who buy these cell phones and send them a mail survey about how they like the FOSS on their phone Every positive response could be sent an Ubuntu disk with a printed, easy-to-read installation guide and then get a follow-up call from the nearest LoCo offering installation assistance The Borg [Microsoft] has a major chink in its armor! And we need to be prepared to exploit it. A marketing team project I think it's worth doing and am willing to take it on This project is not feasible for several reasons. The primary one being that we'd never be able to get a list of people who buy these products since it would violate privacy laws in most countries. Second, who will cover the cost of paper, envelopes, printing, and man power? Third... why is someone who buys a cellphone that runs free, open source software more of a prime candidate than someone who does not? Chances are they bought the cellphone because it was cheaper not because of philosophical reasons... and if they did do so for the latter than they probably already know about Ubuntu and how to get it. So, by all means you're welcome to attempt this but it certainly isn't a candidate for being a marketing team project considering we have a hard enough time organizing efforts for much more tangible goals. I also have to admit that I find it annoying and disappointing to see such outlandish ideas being proposed by someone who I thought might breath new life into a dying team. Cheers, Peace! John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFITy8ysTN+hz1Fu7URAuVWAKCWT52XRZdBGyeLQU9oBYyR/H1eBACeOTuk Z2+3A9hXA+/BDmyHCdfrsTk= =4Enb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- Cody A.W. Somerville Software Engineer Red Cow Marketing Technologies, Inc. Office: 506-458-1290 Toll Free: 1-877-733-2699 Fax: 506-453-9112 Cell: 506-449-5899 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.redcow.ca -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] FOSS Cell phones as marketing opportunity
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Hal Wilke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be far fetched to think that you can get contact info for people who buy these FOSS phones, but it is not outlandish to think that the people who by them are not going to be perspective adopters of other open source softwares. Maybe the majority of the people won't understand what they are using, and it may not impact any decisions they make int he future, but some users will notice. They will see how the open source community works, and the advantages of the open source development model. Maybe this will lead them to other open source products (projects), maybe not. This is true because, Hal, *everyone* is a potential adopter of FOSS. How we use this to market to them...I'm not sure. I don't think it needs to be a strategy - it'll just happen. -hal On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:49 PM, John Botscharow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Making Jobs' bet even more dangerous is the fact that we're about to see a whole raft of devices coming out that could give the iPhone 3G real competition. Google's open-source operating system for mobile phones, Android, is just about ready to be shown off in many handsets, from makers such as HTC, Motorola, Samsung and LG Electronics. You can bet that many of those phones will be way cheaper than $199. http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1813117,00.html?xid=rss-topstories OpenSource cell phones - the marketing implications of this is AWESOME! Even if Ubuntu is not involved in the software for these phones, every one who gets a FOSS cell phone is a PRIME prospect for a FOSS desktop. Maybe there is some way we can get a list of people who buy these cell phones and send them a mail survey about how they like the FOSS on their phone Every positive response could be sent an Ubuntu disk with a printed, easy-to-read installation guide and then get a follow-up call from the nearest LoCo offering installation assistance The Borg [Microsoft] has a major chink in its armor! And we need to be prepared to exploit it. A marketing team project I think it's worth doing and am willing to take it on This project is not feasible for several reasons. The primary one being that we'd never be able to get a list of people who buy these products since it would violate privacy laws in most countries. Second, who will cover the cost of paper, envelopes, printing, and man power? Third... why is someone who buys a cellphone that runs free, open source software more of a prime candidate than someone who does not? Chances are they bought the cellphone because it was cheaper not because of philosophical reasons... and if they did do so for the latter than they probably already know about Ubuntu and how to get it. So, by all means you're welcome to attempt this but it certainly isn't a candidate for being a marketing team project considering we have a hard enough time organizing efforts for much more tangible goals. I also have to admit that I find it annoying and disappointing to see such outlandish ideas being proposed by someone who I thought might breath new life into a dying team. Cheers, Peace! John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFITy8ysTN+hz1Fu7URAuVWAKCWT52XRZdBGyeLQU9oBYyR/H1eBACeOTuk Z2+3A9hXA+/BDmyHCdfrsTk= =4Enb -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- Cody A.W. Somerville Software Engineer Red Cow Marketing Technologies, Inc. Office: 506-458-1290 Toll Free: 1-877-733-2699 Fax: 506-453-9112 Cell: 506-449-5899 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.redcow.ca -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing -- Cody A.W. Somerville Software Engineer Red Cow Marketing Technologies, Inc. Office: 506-458-1290 Toll Free: 1-877-733-2699 Fax: 506-453-9112 Cell: 506-449-5899 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.redcow.ca -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
Re: [ubuntu-marketing] FOSS Cell phones as marketing opportunity
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:39:13 -0500 Hal Wilke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be far fetched to think that you can get contact info for people who buy these FOSS phones, but it is not outlandish to think that the people who by them are not going to be perspective adopters of other open source softwares. Maybe the majority of the people won't understand what they are using, and it may not impact any decisions they make int he future, but some users will notice. They will see how the open source community works, and the advantages of the open source development model. Maybe this will lead them to other open source products (projects), maybe not. How we use this to market to them...I'm not sure. Nice to see someone else who sees the potential of this. +1 for thinking outside the box! If my reply to Cody does not answer your question, Hal, let me know and I'll post a better answer. - -- Peace! John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIT0IcsTN+hz1Fu7URArQfAKDUEgZ30hWxxsE993jD/+ryYXWrewCfSwPB 15MiKHfoWgGmKDPXJhXAMls= =lTLG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
