Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Ubuntu

2010-08-09 Thread alan c
On 09/08/10 04:50, Martin Owens wrote: > If we want a solid marketing push, it's going to need to be the > community which does it and it's probably going to need us agreeing on a > set of sentiments. We might not be able to get everything branded the > same or worded exactly, but we shouldn't be

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Ubuntu

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Owens
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 17:51 +, alan c wrote: > Do you have a link Martin? Oh a whole bunch of things and thoughts on the blog, Randall's been posting links all week, but here is a basic collection: http://doctormo.org/2010/05/22/ubuntus-golden-ring/ http://doctormo.org/2010/05/21/adoption-cas

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Ubuntu

2010-08-09 Thread Lisandro Vaccaro
I read them, I think what we have to do is to organize all that has been written and that we know in a meaningful way and get the info closer to the general public. Give the people the know how to really transmit what they feel about Ubuntu. We organize all our materials, decide on the difficult

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Ubuntu

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Owens
thanks for reading :-) On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 15:44 -0300, Lisandro Vaccaro wrote: > We could create a site for "the guide" on facebook where everyone > would register, there everyone could see THE guideline and we would > post news about Ubuntu every admin or radio owner could use on their > own m

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Ubuntu

2010-08-09 Thread Randall Ross
On 10-08-08 09:50 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > I don't think it's just that we haven't volunteers, I think that' the > wrong way to look at the problem. We do actually have lots of people > doing lots of different things. > I agree. We appear to have (tens of) thousands of disjointed "micro marketi

[ubuntu-marketing] Fwd: Marketing Ubuntu

2010-08-09 Thread Lisandro Vaccaro
We won't need programmers, it will all be done by the users, they'll upload artwork and provide a link for the high res version themselves. If everything goes well we could provide them with a place to host the artwork, like Ubuntu Art (I didn't know the site) so there are other ways of accessing

[ubuntu-marketing] Fwd: Marketing Ubuntu

2010-08-09 Thread Lisandro Vaccaro
We won't need programmers, it will all be done by the users, they'll upload artwork and provide a link for the high res version themselves. If everything goes well we could provide them with a place to host the artwork, like Ubuntu Art (I didn't know the site) so there are other ways of accessing

[ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #205

2010-08-09 Thread Amber Graner
The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue205 -- Amber Graner//akgraner// http://akgraner.com/ http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blogs/Amber-Graner-You-in-Ubuntu Just me Amber. Never interrupt someone doing what y

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #205

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Owens
Thanks Amber! On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 18:53 -0400, Amber Graner wrote: > The new edition of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is now available here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue205 > > -- > Amber Graner//akgraner// > http://akgraner.com/ > http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Online/Blo

[ubuntu-marketing] Instill the Need

2010-08-09 Thread Roscoe
I still say that until there is the Ubuntu ad that pops up on the television set whilst *joe public* is watching it, we will be fighting a constant uphill battle. People will have to be introduced to Ubuntu via TV just like the other OS's, and will have to be sold on Ubuntu. Once they have the idea

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Instill the Need

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Owens
Hey Roscoe, On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 21:33 -0700, Roscoe wrote: > I still say that until there is the Ubuntu ad that pops up on the > television set whilst *joe public* is watching it, we will be fighting > a > constant uphill battle. Because it wouldn't work. Even if we had a perfect advert that wa