Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Phone for the blind

2016-03-02 Thread Alan Pope
wer. Feel free to mail me directly. > I'm using this list just because don't know who I'm may contact > to. Sorry if I'm wrong with it. > No problem. I'd recommend using the phone list (linked above) for phone related questions, there's a lot of users and deve

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] eCommerce

2014-09-19 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Alan Pope: >> >> I'd recommend you read this document and use the contact link if you >> have any further questions. >> >> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] eCommerce

2014-09-18 Thread Alan Pope
k if you have any further questions. http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-property-policy Cheers, -- Alan Pope Technical Project Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] spreadubuntu.org/.com domains now directing to our site - Graduated Marketing Project?

2010-11-06 Thread Alan Pope
2010/11/6 Rubén Romero y Cordero : > Just writing to let you know that the Canonical owned domains are now > point to our site. I believe that the Do-It-Yourself part of the site > is completed. Our work should probably concentrate in, incrementally, > add elements from the "Site idea" to the site.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Need admin for new twitter

2010-10-25 Thread Alan Pope
On 25 October 2010 02:24, Lisandro Vaccaro wrote: > I need an admin for our new Twitter. It's growing really fast but I cannot > take care of it. > It's this one > > http://twitter.com/#!/Ubuntu_OS > What's the purpose of the account? Al. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Query

2010-08-17 Thread Alan Pope
On 17 August 2010 22:52, Roscoe wrote: > So how come if I send an email to the list it does not appear to show > up on the list, but it did show up on the digest later on? > Just wondering if I have done some config the wrong way or summat? > Welcome to gmail. The gmail web interface hides mail f

[ubuntu-marketing] Fwd: Join Us At OggCamp10!

2010-03-31 Thread Alan Pope
OggCamp is a free software / free culture unconference organised by the presenters of the Ubuntu UK Podcastand Linux Outlaws . This year's OggCamp will take place at *The Black-E in Liverpool,

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] "Buy a pc with Ubuntu pre-installed" as an option to "get ubuntu"

2010-03-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 March 2010 16:00, Randall Ross wrote: > Yes. I live in Canada, so I know your sentiment. We have restricted and > inconvenient trade across our shared border, despite what you might hear > otherwise. > One of the UK loco team created a website to list places you can buy computers which come

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] "Buy a pc with Ubuntu pre-installed" as an option to "get ubuntu"

2010-03-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 March 2010 15:50, Randall Ross wrote: > I think it's at least partly fixed with http://system76.com ... Thoughts? > Not everyone lives in USA. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-11-04 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/4 Paolo Sammicheli : > Alle 16:19 del 4/11/2009, John Vilsack ha scritto: >> I'm here.  I'm offering to help.  That's all that matters. > > Me too. I'm here offering to help. > > Now explain me why we can't find a Day good for both for this IRC Meeting. > I guess John just wanted to get th

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-11-03 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/3 Paolo Sammicheli : > Alle 12:01 del 3/11/2009, Efrain Valles ha scritto: >> is spreadubuntu ready? > > Yes. It just miss the domain spread.ubuntu.com. > > They are waiting for it since August. > > If someone can speed up the process, that's would be great. :) > Do you have an RT for it?

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/3 Danny Piccirillo : > The process is team specific since not all teams have anybody willing to > admin a calendar. I'm adding you as an admin for our calendar > It makes sense to document this process on the Marketing Team wiki pages, so as to reduce the time wasted and duplication of eff

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/3 Danny Piccirillo : > Right...but it only shows up for the fridge, and not on the official team > calendar. An official team calendar allows us to push all of our meetings to > the fridge, and let our members subscribe to just our calendar (rather than > to the entire fridge), and add all

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/3 Danny Piccirillo : > Right, but it should be done from the Marketing Team calendar, not your > personal calendar, so that it shows up for the team and the fridge... It does show up on the fridge, because I followed the procedure outlined on the page I linked to. I don't see the rationale

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/3 Danny Piccirillo : > Did you add through the Marketing Team calendar? I don't see it there... > No, I used the same process other teams use, as outlined at:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fridge/Calendar Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/3 John Vilsack : > 1. Let's schedule the meeting right now for 12-November-09 at > hours (This is November 11th, 7:00PM for Eastern Time Zone). Alan or > Danny, could you please add this to the calendar? > Added to the fridge calendar. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list u

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Pope
2009/11/3 Martin Owens : > Perhaps we need an administrative assistant to organize these things, I > asked about the fridge, I have no idea how to add things to it, other > promotions such as the loco teams list and the planet would be good too. > It's detailed here:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fridg

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Reviving the Marketing Team (yet again!) with a focus on simple activism

2009-11-02 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/22 Martin Owens : > If you feel there is such a problem and it can't be reconciled, then > we'll call a meeting. How does Monday 2nd November 2009, 23:00 UTC (6pm > EST) sound, we'll have it in #ubuntu-meeting and make sure that the > community knows it's going on. > I don't know if this w

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Request for input for Karmic Release Candidate technical overview

2009-10-22 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/22 Steve Langasek : >> Desktop images, and the ability to have them automatically change. > > What does this refer to?  I'm not at all sure what "desktop images" means > here, or what this is a new feature of. > We have pretty desktop images now. There's a set of space theme ones which cha

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Request for input for Karmic Release Candidate technical overview

2009-10-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/10/20 Steve Langasek : > The Karmic release candidate will be out this Thursday, so it would be great > to have as > up-to-date and complete as possible in preparation for this.  What other > great new features in Ubuntu 9.10 should be li

[ubuntu-marketing] Unfinished video for perusal

2009-02-23 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, After the multiple video threads I thought I'd have a play. I'd actually intended getting this finished for the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase competition but that wasn't to be. The concept was to "Show that Ubuntu can be used by a diverse range of people for a myriad of tasks". A series of sc

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Request for Comment

2009-02-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/2/21 Philip Wyett : > avi is not a free format. I think ogg theora is what he and others may > be after. > Sorry, I wasn't suggesting it was a free format, merely an alternative to the flash player. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify setti

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Request for Comment

2009-02-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/2/21 Dylan McCall : > Is the video available in a free format? It doesn't play with Gnash. > > There's a link to the avi file underneath the flash thing. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Hopeful News for a 2009 Advertising Campaign

2009-01-09 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/9 Jacob F. Roecker : > Great job! This looks like it was clean and fairly easy to do. It sets a > good example for things in the future. Google Video kills the quality of > it, and its unfortunate, but we'll see if we can't work around that for the > website. > Stick it on blip.tv if you

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Hopeful News for a 2009 Advertising Campaign

2009-01-05 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, 2009/1/4 Jacob F. Roecker : > > We do a "I am Ubuntu" video (just because it's easy and fun) //Jacob > Roecker// Ever since I'd first heard of this there was something nibbling away in my brain that I'd seen this before somewhere, and after a bit of googling.. http://jonrob.fedorapeople.org

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Hopeful News for a 2009 Advertising Campaign

2009-01-05 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/5 Jeremy Anderson : > I like this a lot. Too bad something like that couldn't be put in the > example folder during install. Obviously you aren't done but I like the > concept of showing on top of one another the options away from MS products. > It could, if it was good enough to beat the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Submission for "I am Ubuntu"

2008-12-31 Thread Alan Pope
2008/12/31 Christopher Swift : > Then again I am Chris and I am Ubuntu can portray that my name is Ubuntu > too. May be it should be:- "My name is Alan, and I am Ubuntu." Smacks of "I am borg" :S Which might be a good or bad thing depending on your point of view :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-mark

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] "I am Ubuntu"

2008-12-31 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Daniel, 2008/12/31 Daniel Voicu : > Hi. I've just subscribed to the mailing list and would really love to > help in promoting Ubuntu. Related to "I Am Ubuntu", what do you think > if the users could say they are Ubuntu in their native language? This > could promote the idea of different persons

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Submission for "I am Ubuntu"

2008-12-31 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Jacob, Well done for taking the lead on this project. Whilst I know people are discussing the pros and cons of putting up sites like this, I think it's admirable that someone is just getting on and doing it. Keep going! 2008/12/31 Jacob F. Roecker : > Here's what I need: > > Get every Ubuntu u

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The "I'm Linux" Video Contest (Mike Feravolo)

2008-12-22 Thread Alan Pope
2008/12/22 Elizabeth Krumbach : > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Alan Pope wrote: >> 2008/12/22 Mike Feravolo <321.784.5...@earthlink.net>: >>> I am confused about how "I'm Linux" is going to sell anything to anyone, >>> maybe you should consid

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The "I'm Linux" Video Contest (Mike Feravolo)

2008-12-22 Thread Alan Pope
2008/12/22 Mike Feravolo <321.784.5...@earthlink.net>: > I am confused about how "I'm Linux" is going to sell anything to anyone, > maybe you should consider using the mascot "Tux the Penguin" is you are > going to produce a copycat commercial in the first place. The way I read it there is no _req

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Meeting Preparation - learning from the past

2008-06-06 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:19:53PM -0500, John Botscharow wrote: > Now that would be a HUGE help. I have saved every list email since I > joined and my thunderbird can search those no problem, but I've only > been a member of this list a short time, so my archive is rather limited > :-) Being able

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Organizational meeting proposed (Mike Feravolo)

2008-06-03 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 18:31 +0200, Simon Schneebeli wrote: > It looks like 8pm CMT this Saturday is a moment that suits well for It's probably better to quote times in UTC, as most other teams do. It makes it a lot easier for people to translate because most people know their timezone relative to

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Organizational meeting proposed (Mike

2008-06-01 Thread Alan Pope
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:08:31AM -0500, John Botscharow wrote: > Also, by voting on leadersip and direction, it allows everyone, or at > least most everyone, to feel ownership of this team, to buy into the > team and its goals. Without that sense of ownership, people are not > going to be very ac

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] videos+screencasts+everything else under the sun

2008-01-28 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:18:53PM -0500, Nick Ali wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 5:14 PM, Przemysław Kulczycki > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nick Ali pisze: > > > Alright, who is going to do the Ubuntu version of this? > > > http://fedoratv.com/ > > > > Already done? > > http://screencasts.ubuntu.co

[ubuntu-marketing] [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Demo Day, Swindon]

2008-01-25 Thread Alan Pope
Another UK based event - this time specifically about Ubuntu. Sounds like it will be a great day. If Canonical / Ubuntu marketing aren't involved already perhaps they might like to be to help promote this. Cheers, Al. - Forwarded message from Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Di

[ubuntu-marketing] [ubuntu-uk] Opensource Event in Brizzol - 5 February]

2008-01-25 Thread Alan Pope
Brizzol == Bristol, UK. Dunno if the Canonical / Ubuntu marketing people are interested and want to get involved in this... Cheers, Al. - Forwarded message from Pete Stean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:17:34 + From: Pete Stean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] full circle #8 - Marketing Preview

2007-12-18 Thread Alan Pope
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 09:13:12PM +, Ronnie Tucker wrote: > Any objections to anything please let me know by Thursday at the latest. > > All comments welcome. > Page 5 mentions Hardy Alpha 1 release and calls it a "tribe". I understood the collective names for animals was dropped and these

[ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu from a Windows user perspective

2007-12-08 Thread Alan Pope
John Bradbury (a windows user) has made 3 very nice screencast type videos showing his use of Ubuntu. He videoed with little preparation which leads us to hear his reaction as he discovers things like update manager, auto codec and plugin installation. It's quite refreshing to watch a new user

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Dethroning Ubuntu - nice article

2007-12-08 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:13:34PM -0800, Corey Burger wrote: > I agree it is an interesting article, but I wouldn't call it nice > simply because it has some major holes. I agree Corey. I was also disappointed to see mention of codecs/flash/java. What is this obsession people have with codecs be

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] online ubuntu install trainer

2007-11-11 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 22:10 +0530, Two Steps Back wrote: > @Installer: > We can start with an install trainer, to begin with, if > http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/37158/ is too complex. > Then upgrade to cover all hardware configs. I'm not sure we do. We have plenty of screenshots and videos sho

[ubuntu-marketing] Dell stops selling Ubuntu Laptops in the UK?

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Pope
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/11/06/dell-dumps-ubuntu http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=600956 http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3715630&postcount=25 "OK, I have just called my Dell account manager also. Here in the UK at least Dell have discontinued Laptops with pre

[ubuntu-marketing] UWN submission TribalWars

2007-10-22 Thread Alan Pope
http://blog.goukihq.org/2007/10/20/ubuntu-on-tribal-wars/ I know some of you already play, it would be great to get this out to the wider community. Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Screencasts

2007-10-11 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Matt, Thanks for the comprehensive run down. On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:07 +0100, Matthew East wrote: > Just one further clarification: the screencasts are not designed as > marketing videos, but are rather explanations about how to do a > particular task on Ubuntu. > Agreed. The existing batc

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Screencasts

2007-10-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 18:36 -0700, Corey Burger wrote: > The screencasts stuff has been cool beans for a very long time. > However, is there a reason you have chosen not to put them on the > Fridge? I just didn't want to annoy people with spamming the fridge with them. They are already syndicated

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Screencasts

2007-10-09 Thread Alan Pope
Hi all, On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 19:35 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > The Screencasts Team are doing amazing work on screencasts for Ubuntu > Gutsy, and they will launch a "Month of Screencasts" in 8 days. The > ringleader is Alan Pope, cc'd. > Just to clarify. The

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] font used for "linux for human beings"?

2007-10-08 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Eric, On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 14:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What font is used to create the words "linux for human beings" in the > official Ubuntu strap line? I'm interested in producing some jewelcase > inserts for Ubuntu, but can't find mention of that font anywhere. > I can never

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-04 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Luke, Thanks for your mail, I appreciate the input on this subject. On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:43 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: > I happen to agree with this. On one hand it would be great to see UWN in > audio form, however, to > do it justice, the work required every week, or even every two we

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-03 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Antony, On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 13:30 -0500, Anthony Yarusso wrote: Ok, thanks for clearing all that up. Makes sense. > > Ok. So should we have a "trial" of the audio version of UWN for a > > month or so and gather information about the popularity (how many > > downloads)? I don't mind sorting

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] kubuntu countdown thingy

2007-10-03 Thread Alan Pope
Hi David, Re-sending this to avoid attachment file size limit on the marketing mailing list. On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:42 +0100, David Miller wrote: > Hi, I've just read your post on the fridge about the ubuntu countdown applet. > So jealous i had to make one for kubuntu too :) . > Excellent!

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-03 Thread Alan Pope
HI Christophe, On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:53 +0200, Christophe Sauthier wrote: > Sorry to raise the issue of non-english speaking persons. Don't be sorry, many of us native-English people forget these things. > From my > point of view, UWN has a goal to be distributed in english of course > butu

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-03 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Anthony, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 22:33 -0500, Anthony Yarusso wrote: > I think these are separate goals. > Agreed. > One of the biggest problems we run into in the wider open-source > community seems to be duplication of effort, both in code and > community promotion. Is that necessarily a ba

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] video editing

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Corey, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:47 -0700, Corey Burger wrote: > Very cool idea. As jokosher grew out of Lugradio, maybe this could > help spur development of Pitivi. Thanks. Video editing is indeed a bane under Linux. I contacted the MainActor guys recently to ask what the community would nee

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:14:36PM -0400, Nick Ali wrote: > On 10/2/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The interviews would be of people in the Ubuntu community - developers > > and so on. The logistics of this are tricky given the majority of people > > are al

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] countdown for gutsy

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Again, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:16 -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > We'd really like to get this out, so could a fridge team member put > this on the fridge and could the marketing team spread the word > through their channels? Gerry, Kat and Matt (me) would really > appreciate it. It should help

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Nick, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 17:35 -0400, Nick Ali wrote: > On 10/2/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about piggybacking off the UWN and using that as a base. Talk about > > the news articles, the teams and people. Maybe interview new members and > > pe

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] countdown for gutsy

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Matthew, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:16 -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > We'd really like to get this out, so could a fridge team member put > this on the fridge and could the marketing team spread the word > through their channels? Gerry, Kat and Matt (me) would really > appreciate it. It should hel

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Chris, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:25 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > I'm in two minds about whether or not this would be worth doing to be > honest. Me too, that's why I brought it up :) > From my own perspective, I don't think I'd listen to this. You're not target audience though are you to be

[ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, I was chatting with someone today and I was reminded of an idea I'd had in the bath some weeks back. Audio version of the UWN. This would come out probably the same day or the day after the UWN itself and would be available via an RSS feed. It would be simply an audio version, no extra stuff

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] UWN and The Fridge.

2007-09-30 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Isabelle, On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 18:07 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The two last issues of UWN have not been pushed to The Fridge :) > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3445525 > Last feed is for UWN#56 from Sept 10, 2007 (in my own feed reader). Thanks for letting us know. I've add

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Questionable Canonical Merchandise

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Chris, On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 20:03 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > And just to add another "I asked my missus what she thought" comment. I just did the same :) Alan: "Can I ask you something?" Clare: "What?" Alan: "You know you can get T-shirts with Ubuntu slogans on, 'linux for human beings' yo

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Video Techies Wanted !

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Chris, On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 05:25:50PM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > I'm trying to draft some documents for the Ubuntu Viral Video project, > and as Matthew suggested in another thread, I'm trying to put together > guidance on how to use Ubuntu to create video. > Uh-Oh. Video under linux i

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Questionable Canonical Merchandise

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Aaron, On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:56:58AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Chris' argument implies that the term "for the ladies" is a fairly > popular term because it shows up on Google. Not whether or not it's "ok". > Pretty sure that was my point :) > Whether or not the term is morally acce

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Viral Videos

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Matt, On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:04:44PM +0100, Matthew East wrote: > Not sure what you mean by this bit, but given that ubuntuvideo.com is > a well known Ubuntu video site in the Ubuntu namespace and that this > project is about Ubuntu videos, I'd like to hear more from John (added > to cc) ab

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Sorry if this is a repeat post but

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:43:16AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I showed my wife that shirt and she liked it and is planning on ordering > one, she wears a I "heart" nerds shirt all the time, should I be offended > that it calls me a nerd, at least I hope she is wearing it for me, oh no

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Questionable Canonical Merchandise

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Sarah, On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:20:29PM +1000, Sarah Hobbs wrote: > No idea who's behind this marketing decision, but... > > This is important, as it seems to be (unintentionally, i'm sure) > offending half of the world's population, and so therefore half of the > possible candidates who may

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Questionable Canonical Merchandise

2007-08-20 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Aaron, On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:33:42AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Melissa Draper wrote: > >> Do a google search for the phrase "for the ladies" - Observe 1,950,000 > >> results. Are all of these offensive? > > > > Do a google search for "porn" and tell me how many results you get. Not

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Viral Videos

2007-08-17 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Chris, On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:57:39AM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > I've just had an email from the good folks over at thedailymotion.com > - who have heard about our viral video project. > You sure about that site? It redirects to http://www.richvideos.com/ which is a searchspam site. h

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] full circle #3 - preview

2007-07-23 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Ronnie, On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 00:14 +0100, Ronnie Tucker wrote: > Any objections to anything please let me know by Wednesday at the latest. All > comments welcome. > Looking good, lots more content which is always good to see. I'm concerned that the Q&A section doesn't seem to refer to the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu on Second Life

2007-06-24 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Martijn, On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 19:08 +0200, Martijn van de Streek wrote: > Probably depends on your graphics card and driver. NVidia + closed > driver will probably work, it's broken on fglrx for me, and I haven't > tried yet on the free 'radeon' driver or intel. Works here on Intel 945 graphi

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] fullcircle #1 - ready for Marketing perusal...

2007-06-07 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Corey, On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:51:45AM -0700, Corey Burger wrote: > In the future, how do we make certain wiki-based editing is better > done and gets into the magazine? Is there another place that first > level editing should be done? > I think the subject of "publicly editing" has been d

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] full circle magazine: meeting #1!

2007-05-23 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Corey, On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:40 -0700, Corey Burger wrote: > For the record, GMِT is dead. For the record, it's not. GMT is what we use for six months of the year in the UK. It *happens* to be the same time as UTC for those six months. > UTC is the correct way to refer to > Universal tim

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Live Invite

2007-05-11 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 09:38:04AM +0200, Corey Burger wrote: > > > > Is Sunday 13th may too soon? > > 13th may work for me, but I am still travelling until the 19th. My > timezone is also currently utc+1 > I know you're right down the other end of the table from me, but you're actually still i

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] full circle #0 - FINAL BETA [UPDATE]

2007-04-13 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:59:02AM +0100, Ronnie Tucker wrote: > Hi folks, > > Aysiu from UbuntuForums has read through the FINAL BETA and PM'd me a list of > grammatical errors which are now fixed. Samyel (from the Marketing IRC > channel) is going to have a read through it also to see if he ca

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Suggestions for next News-digest

2007-04-06 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:45:18AM +0200, simone brunozzi wrote: > Hi there, > I've prepared a survey on Linux PCs, different (and possibly better) > than Dell's one: > http://www.ubuntista.it/survey/ > > Feel free to ask me any further detail. > Nice survey, quick and easy to fill in. Just one

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Tattoos

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:19:22PM +, john levin wrote: > Just seen this: Firefox tattoos > http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > which strikes me as a cool way to promote things. > Any chance of Ubuntu tats? > Heh. I suggested to wifey that I was thinking about getting the ubuntu