Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Recent poor publicity - response?

2007-08-16 Thread alan c
Dominik Wagenfuehr wrote: [...] > TheInquirer > [8]. (Last one is ridiculous... Saying "Cannonical" and "Open sauce > software"...) This is clearly ridicule, which also makes interesting reading for some. Most publicity, even bad publicity, is probably 'good' publicity, however, being vulner

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Recent poor publicity - response?

2007-08-16 Thread N Ali
On 8/16/07, Martin Albisetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/16/07, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What do people think? Can bad publicity can be turned into good publicity? > > > > I personally believe that a nice article (the fridge sounds right) > with what will be done to pre

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Recent poor publicity - response?

2007-08-16 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Dominik, On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 06:07:27PM +0200, Dominik Wagenfuehr wrote: > Here are further news for it: eWeek.com [6], Slashdot [7], TheInquirer > [8]. (Last one is ridiculous... Saying "Cannonical" and "Open sauce > software"...) > Knowing the Inq, I suspect that's intentional! :) >

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Recent poor publicity - response?

2007-08-16 Thread Dominik Wagenfuehr
> > This is a good point I've seen it on digg, and even on Planet Ubuntu Users? > In every case it's been very negative. > In Germany all of the big news websites (heise [1], Golem [2] and Pro-Linux [3]) has mentioned the issue. Some sites like winfuture [4] also mentioned that Canonical is bl

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Recent poor publicity - response?

2007-08-16 Thread Martin Albisetti
On 8/16/07, Matthew East <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What do people think? Can bad publicity can be turned into good publicity? > I personally believe that a nice article (the fridge sounds right) with what will be done to prevent this in the future would suffice. Security breaches happen every

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Recent poor publicity - response?

2007-08-16 Thread DThomas
This is a good point I've seen it on digg, and even on Planet Ubuntu Users? In every case it's been very negative. "Matthew East" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/2007 09:28 AM To "Ubuntu Marketing" cc Subject [ubuntu-marketing] Recent poor publicity - response?

[ubuntu-marketing] Recent poor publicity - response?

2007-08-16 Thread Matthew East
Hi all, (Jono and Matthew cc:ed) A thread on the -uk list has highlighted the recent poor publicity that Ubuntu has had as a result of the recent problems with the local community run servers, in particular on slashdot (http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/08/15/1341224.shtml). Does the marketing team h

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Schoolbooks?

2007-08-16 Thread Kat Kinnie
Hi Iwan, I'm a Marketing Manager at Canonical and I second what Corey has said. It is best to contact shipit directly if you wish to distribute CDs with the books. Including Ubuntu CDs with books is very common in the publishing world. Visit this address: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ Thanks, Ka

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu in the press

2007-08-16 Thread Corey Burger
Cedric, Cool stuff. I am currently on vacation, but I am cc-ing fridge devel in the hopes somebody writes a story (or I get a few moments free). It should hit hte UWN as well. Cheers, Corey On 8/15/07, Cedric Janssens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dears, > > I'm Cedric Janssens, French Speaking