[ubuntu-marketing] Communicating Ubuntu

2006-11-01 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Hi folks, I had a little brainstorm with myself about the marketing of Ubuntu. And I put all of it into a draft. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunicatingUbuntu Have a look, a offer up some comments. It is still very much a braindump, and I've noticed a fair few other call to arms with regards to ma

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Feedback: Scribus "Feature of the week" despite bad Scribus support

2006-10-27 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Hi Maciej, On 10/27/06, MaHan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The fact is, Scribus users, contributors (like myself), developers have > been trying to attract Ubuntu makers' attention to various grave issues > in Ubuntu for many months, but these attempts have been widely ignored. On behalf of the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Contribute doc and the Marketing team page

2006-08-16 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Matthew Revell wrote: > I have to say, I like the way our team page on the wiki has a "Find > us" section right up front. Ubuntu wiki pages don't make it that easy, > that I can see, to have anything other than a linear layout. So, we > need the first item to be for new people, and how they can fin

[ubuntu-marketing] Contribute doc and the Marketing team page

2006-08-14 Thread Andreas Lloyd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Marketing team, I have been working on a new document for the Ubuntu Documentation on how to get involved with Ubuntu [1], and as part of that, I have been going through all the team wiki pages to gather basic information on how to get involved wit

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Managing Anything Goes

2006-08-13 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Hi John. John Baer wrote: > Is there really any other way to manage anything goes? > As you note, there are a lot of ideas on this list. Some ideas are good, some ideas are unfocused, some ideas are bad. But you'll notice that only a few of all of these ideas are actually taken beyond this Brai

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Information Hub for Research Initiatives

2006-08-07 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Marcos Larios wrote: > I've been in contact with Andreas Lloyd about the survey s/he has done > for Ubuntu Developers, He! ;-) > [snip] the survey would be directed to users of any Ubuntu release, in > order to know the worries of the users, software needed in Linux and > Ub

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Information Hub for Research Initiatives

2006-08-07 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Melissa Draper wrote: > If you feel like adding your previous survey (and even your > ubuntu-fieldwork thingie) to the Research page, I've added a 'Past > Initiatives' area for such projects. It'd be a shame for *any* research > information to get lost in the ocean that is the Ubuntu wiki. > > This

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Information Hub for Research Initiatives

2006-08-06 Thread Andreas Lloyd
currently involved, as well as a link to the project's wiki page. > > Chris Kenyon and/or Andreas Lloyd: Could you check that what I put on > the page regarding your project is accurate and sufficient? > I changed the wording a bit, but otherwise it's fine. Chris is actual

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Do You Ubuntu? - A proposal for our case study generation process

2006-07-27 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Hey all. I hope that not everybody has forgotten about the User Case study idea. Just to formalize it a bit, I've taken the original suggestion from Chris and integrated them with my comments on a new spec in Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-user-case-studies https://w

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Announcing the Unified Ubuntu Branding Project

2006-07-27 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Tim Morris wrote: [Lots of relevant and interesting stuff about marketing targeting] > Again, what John has done is the first step towards addressing these > issues assuming we are targeting the corporate user. > > However, what I was saying in my original post was, speaking as a > market research

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Do You Ubuntu? - A proposal for our case study generation process

2006-07-21 Thread Andreas Lloyd
Hi all, I only just joined the marketing list last night, so I'll reply to Corey's mail instead. Corey Burger wrote: > On 7/20/06, Chris Kenyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There appears to be universal demand for case studies on Ubuntu usage. I >> would welcome comments on the following proposal