Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-05 Thread Nick Ali
On 10/6/07, Nick Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't know. We could ask the loco teams for help with recording their > > > own localised versions of course. > > > > > > > That seems sensible. I'm sure that loco teams would go for that.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-05 Thread Nick Ali
On 10/4/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know. We could ask the loco teams for help with recording their > > own localised versions of course. > > > > That seems sensible. I'm sure that loco teams would go for that. Seems > to me that the level of effort required to make an a

[ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-04 Thread Chris Rowson
> I don't know. We could ask the loco teams for help with recording their > own localised versions of course. > That seems sensible. I'm sure that loco teams would go for that. Seems to me that the level of effort required to make an audio dictation of the UWN would be an order of magnitude less t

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 Luke Yelavich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:53:08PM EST, Christophe Sauthier wrote: > Sorry to raise the issue of non-english speaking persons. From my > point of view, UWN has a goal to be distributed in english of course > butu also in many languages. And some teams

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] Audio UWN

2007-10-03 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: > 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

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 Christophe Sauthier
Sorry to raise the issue of non-english speaking persons. From my point of view, UWN has a goal to be distributed in english of course butu also in many languages. And some teams are really making a tremendous work on that... They won't be able to do anything about that... Of course it is just my

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Rowson
> 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 this. > > Cheers, > Al. Hi Al, I think yes. That'd be a sensible idea. Chris -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-market

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] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think there are a lot of good ideas that have been thrown out there, but also a number of things that we need to be careful of. Here's a summary: I think providing an audio version of the UWN is a good idea, even if the audience is small. I thin

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/2/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

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 all over the place (with some

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Ali
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 all over the place (with some people in one or two locations). We could do what they do on TV,

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 > > people from recently-approved

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Nick Ali
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 > people from recently-approved LoCo teams as part of the podcast. That > way you complement the UWN,

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Rowson
> 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 > people from recently-approved LoCo teams as part of the podcast. That > way you complement the UWN, build on the audience it already has, and > prov

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

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi Alan, I'm in two minds about whether or not this would be worth doing to be honest. From my own perspective, I don't think I'd listen to this. On the other hand, perhaps other people would? Why not trial it first and see what the take up is? Chris -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-mar

[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