Re: [ubuntu-marketing] ubuntu-marketing Digest, Vol 56, Issue 20

2010-08-18 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Martin Owens wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:07 -0400, Andy Watson wrote: >> What do you do to help the marketing team? Maybe I can help. > > http://doctormo.org/2010/08/18/reasons-to-love-ubuntu/ Thanks again for creating this Martin! I'm off to the print shop

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Marketing team's purpose

2010-08-18 Thread alan c
On 18/08/10 03:49, Tim McNamara wrote: > Yet lots of our recent discussion has been > focused on how we as a team can craft a promotional campaign. That > would place us more as leaders. Many team efforts around free software use various forms of leadership, which usually has some form of technic

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] ubuntu-marketing Digest, Vol 56, Issue 20

2010-08-18 Thread Martin Owens
Because argument and debate aren't a waste of time so long as we're learning. On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:07 -0400, Andy Watson wrote: > What do you do to help the marketing team? Maybe I can help. http://doctormo.org/2010/08/18/reasons-to-love-ubuntu/ -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-mark

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] ubuntu-marketing Digest, Vol 56, Issue 20

2010-08-18 Thread Andy Watson
Do you actively contribute to preventing global warming? Saving endangered animals? Saving historic building from demolition? Feed stray cats? No. You might care about all of these but you can't actively contribute to every cause known to man. FOSS is among those causes. Why should we expect ev

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] ubuntu-marketing Digest, Vol 56, Issue 20

2010-08-18 Thread Martin Owens
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 01:17 -0400, Andy Watson wrote: > If you want to make money, sell it. If you want contributors, focus on > people that will contribute. Ah, do you equate selling with proprietary? Another maddening myth that seems to be put about far too often to dull the understanding of fos