The most effective way to reach out to people is to include other users of Free SOftware and work together in a community model.
That way you can gain synergies from each other and eventually commercial backing will come around. The Ubuntu community gets a lot of help from Canonical as marketing material (CDs, packs for events/conferences), but no direct comercial founding is available AFAIK. It seems that you are organizing the Local Community which is a good first step: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NigeriaTeam There seems to be a LUG of some sort. Would be worth to check out this: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ng_linux/ I would recommend getting up your LoCo team infrastructure by following this guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto General question about LoCo teams can be directed to the LoCo team contact list: loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com A resource with some Ubuntu Material can be found here: http://spread.ubuntu.ec Good luck with your work in Nigeria! best regards, Ruben R. https://launchpad.net/~huayra On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Adewunmi Adebolatan <aaadewu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Nigeria is an emerging Market with a lot of potentials. I have started to > market the Operating System here in Nigeria. > I will be needing some financial assistance to enable me reach a wider > audience. Is there any help I can get here? > > Adebolatan Adewunmi; B.sc,CCNP,MCP www.opensourcenet.com.ng > > > > > -- > ubuntu-marketing mailing list > ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing > -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing