Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Sheffield University music department switching to Ubuntu Studio

2008-03-15 Thread Toby Smithe
Hi Chris, This is excellent to hear! I have forwarded your mail to the Ubuntu Studio Users' list, and I invite you to participate in the discussion that'll undoubtedly emerge there. I'm very pleased to see that Ubuntu Studio is gaining a larger audience, and this will be especially good in that

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Questionable Canonical Merchandise

2007-08-21 Thread Toby Smithe
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 06:30 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: Hmmm... While I am by no means a supporter of gender separation or sexism, I see no harm in that t-shirt. It's obvious to me that the t-shirt is trying to sell Linux, and computing in general, to women. Not call women some weird subset

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] heads up - Why Is PCLinuxOS 2007 Better Than Ubuntu?

2007-08-15 Thread Toby Smithe
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:05 +0100, John Levin wrote: The success of Mint should be taken into account. It's currently at 5th place in the distrowatch 7-day rankings. Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including

[ubuntu-marketing] Regular people (was Re: Subject: Re: Selling Ubuntu to People)

2007-06-12 Thread Toby Smithe
see this applying to any product). That's all folks, Toby Smithe -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Introduction to new Canonical Maketing Manager and help needed

2007-05-08 Thread Toby Smithe
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:50 +0600, Vid Ayer wrote: On 5/8/07, Gerry Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My name is Gerry Carr and I am the new Senior Marketing Manager for Hi there! There is a draft of the wording which I have put on the wiki here:

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] fullcircle #0 - FINAL BETA!

2007-04-12 Thread Toby Smithe
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 02:06 +0100, Ronnie Tucker wrote: Anything you good folks can see wrong with it before it gets released??... The plural of LiveCD is LiveCDs. It doesn't need an apostrophe because it's not in the genitive; the only exception being its; nor is it replacing some missed

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Feisty and X.org

2007-02-19 Thread Toby Smithe
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:38 -0600, Patrick Goetz wrote: Given that that X.org is always way behind current video hardware anyway, are there plans to incorporate the just released X11R7.2 into feisty? (http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/PressReleases/X11R72Released) Take it from the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] [ubuntu-uk] Government report warns about Microsoft lock-in

2007-01-12 Thread Toby Smithe
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:41 +, Phil Bull wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 11:14 +, gord wrote: Snippet: UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's academic licensing programs face the 'significant potential' of being locked in to the company's software,

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] [Spec ubuntumag-toc] Ubuntu Magazien table of contents

2007-01-05 Thread Toby Smithe
Hmm... Am I the only one getting two of each of these? On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 06:55 +, Joey Stanford wrote: Specification changed by Joey Stanford: Definition Status: Discussion = Obsolete Whiteboard changed to: Abandoned -- Specification Details: Ubuntu Magazien table of

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Regarding Heard 1 Information Page,

2007-01-05 Thread Toby Smithe
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 18:06 -0500, Vlad Becherete wrote: Hello, I wanted to point out something on the Fisty Heard 1 Download page. It's Feisty (Fawn) Herd 1. A herd is the collective noun for a group of fawns. I thought that Gnome was going to skip the number 2.17 as it seems to be

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] New project proposal: Ubuntu Live

2007-01-05 Thread Toby Smithe
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 09:00 +, alan c wrote: For most people Computers mean 'microsoft'. We could make that 'microsoft, OR *Ubuntu*'. It has a more specific ring than 'Linux'. Or even, *Ubuntu*, OR microsoft! -- Help me get to Venezuela! http://tibsplace.co.uk/venezuela --

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] UbuntuNewsletter 25

2006-12-25 Thread Toby Smithe
On Mon, 2006-12-25 at 01:18 -0600, Derick Eisenhardt wrote: There's a somewhat misleading error in UWN 25. The program K-3D is listed under KDE related updates, however, the K in the name has nothing to do with KDE as the program uses GTK, not QT. It's a minor issue, but it might be worth

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team Meeting - Midnight UTC this Saturday

2006-12-15 Thread Toby Smithe
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:23 -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 So my question is, as many confuse when midnight actually starts, is if the time were 12:01am, would it be Saturday, or Sunday? In other words, is the meeting starting in 5 1/2 hours, or

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu's place in the market - no longer No1

2006-12-15 Thread Toby Smithe
Right, but if everyone knows about Ubuntu already, and we are only seeing one or so Windows users trickling through every day, then it doesn't need to be high, and will soon rise again when something interesting (in media eyes) happens. On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 19:01 +, alan c wrote: Ubuntu has

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] diy website progress

2006-11-23 Thread Toby Smithe
... Could you point me to a Bazaar tutorial? On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 17:42 -0500, Daniel Buch wrote: On 11/22/06, Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on the DIY site, the links on the right have a brown heading, and a grey-brown box beneath. The edge of this box runs through the heading, which

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Posters on Digg

2006-11-15 Thread Toby Smithe
Hey Jenda, were your posters ever there? I think they were a better offer! On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 09:59 -0600, Tom Kent wrote: The OBEY! posters from this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=296742 have gotten up on digg:

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Gorgeous Ubuntu?

2006-11-06 Thread Toby Smithe
Gotta reply-to-all/-list... On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:28 +, alan c wrote: Toby Smithe wrote: On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 11:49 -0500, Whitney Callaway wrote: Richard Johnson: Practical + Ease of Use + A little Eye Candy == Beautiful! You're in my boat! Right now, I'm angry at Gaim 2 for being

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Gorgeous Ubuntu?

2006-11-05 Thread Toby Smithe
On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 11:49 -0500, Whitney Callaway wrote: Richard Johnson: Practical + Ease of Use + A little Eye Candy == Beautiful! You're in my boat! Right now, I'm angry at Gaim 2 for being so flashy. But my point is, any maybe I didn't express that very well, that if we're going to

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu 'rough' poster

2006-11-03 Thread Toby Smithe
Attaching screenshot of directory listings. On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 15:01 -0500, Andrew Hunter wrote: On Friday 03 November 2006 00:42, Brian Burger wrote: There was discussion on the -marketing IRC channel last week about some different designs for Ubuntu posters promotional material; one

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Communicating Ubuntu

2006-11-02 Thread Toby Smithe
This is a very good brain dump. I'm glad that you did this, as it describes what I (and hopefully other sensible evangelists) do exactly. I would never have done it, but it provides a very sound base for new users looking to promote this wonderful community, as that's what freedom is: community.