Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Maverick Movies

2010-08-21 Thread Randall Ross
Admittedly, this involves money, but is much more reasonable while still offering a nice prize: How about sponsoring them to UDS-N so they can be presented with an award, meet all the team (and possibly even be inspired to make more video?) One thing that was very positive out of the last UDS was t

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Maverick Movies

2010-08-21 Thread Lisandro Vaccaro
The 100.000 dollars aside, I don't think it's a bad idea, we have been talked about it before. Isn't there any incentive we can give that doesn't involve money? We can get the winner on Ubuntu's main site, what else can we do? 2010/8/21 Martin Owens > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 09:25 -0400, Mike

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Maverick Movies

2010-08-21 Thread Martin Owens
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 09:25 -0400, Mike Feravolo wrote: > If all you want to do hear is debate what "Free and Open Source > Software" or "Software Freedom" is all about, then change the name to > the "Debate Team". We thought the objective here is to promote Ubuntu > a > superior software produc

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Maverick Movies

2010-08-21 Thread Mike Feravolo
Hello: We have been following this mail list for a couple of years along and wondered who exactly the marketing team is trying to sell. Existing users of other Linux distros or people that already know about Ubuntu or people that don't know Ubuntu exists. People in the Linux community know wha

[ubuntu-marketing] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-20 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hi folks I saw this amazing movie from the Ubuntu Ads guys http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHzP7mxRFJE and was inspired to blog http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/489 about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMovies Shout if you are interested i