Quoting "Belinda A. Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> I think you are spot on and the approach I like is to target certain
> occupations and show how they can transition to FOSS. i.e. I think
> Bradley Kuhn gave such a presentation aimed at Lawyers, "How can a
> small law firm transition to FOSS
On 10/25/07, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What does it take to create a new user, and how long is that process?
Good question. Trying a new OS and new browser have different
barriers. A browser can be downloaded and installed in a few minutes
and requires no significant actions that a ty
Belinda A. Lopez wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2007, at 6:13 AM, alan c wrote:
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>> What does it take to create a new user, and how long is that process?
[...]
>and the approach I like is to target certain
> occupations and show how they can transition to FOSS.
Nice idea of targetting yes. I have just
zero cost.
Cheers,
Dalton
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Assunto: Re: [ubuntu-marketing] New York Times advertisement for Ubuntu
> To add my two cents:
>
> I think jus
To add my two cents:
I think just an advertisement would be on the wrong track. Switching web
browers isn't too technical but is your average user really going to
partition and install Ubuntu himself too see if it works for him? I
think a large install fest-ish thing would be better. This of cours
On 10/25/07, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tom M wrote:
> >> It got noticed in the foss community because it was original.
> >
> > It got noticed in a thousand local papers, and in major news
> > outlets because it was original. The actual impact of the Times ad
> > itself, was probably quit
On Oct 25, 2007, at 6:13 AM, alan c wrote:
> What does it take to create a new user, and how long is that process?
This is a great point Alan. I often say I still can't make my living
as a Training Developer strictly using Ubuntu and have to have a
Windows partition for my job software. My
Tom M wrote:
>> It got noticed in the foss community because it was original.
>
> It got noticed in a thousand local papers, and in major news
> outlets because it was original. The actual impact of the Times ad
> itself, was probably quite small, I'd be surprised if the ad itself
> generated eve
> > It got noticed in the foss community because it was original.
>
> It got noticed in a thousand local papers, and in major news outlets
> because it was original. The actual impact of the Times ad itself,
> was probably quite small, I'd be surprised if the ad itself generated
> even a thousand
>>> It got noticed in the foss community because it was original.
>>> However, the readers of the New York Times just saw an advert - a bit
>>> unusual, but then most adverts are trying to be unusual in some
>>> way. A page full of names will be unusual anyway.
>>>
>>> The one single thing that
> It got noticed in the foss community because it was original.
It got noticed in a thousand local papers, and in major news outlets
because it was original. The actual impact of the Times ad itself,
was probably quite small, I'd be surprised if the ad itself generated
even a thousand new users.
> Advertising 'just works'
>
>
> :-)
>
>
> It got noticed in the foss community because it was original.
> However, the readers of the New York Times just saw an advert - a bit
> unusual, but then most adverts are trying to be unusual in some way. A
> page full of names will be unusual anyway.
>
Tom M wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> We really need to have a New York Times advertisement. It worked for
>> Firefox and you will find my name (and 10,000 others) on the first
>> advertisement shown below...
>>
>
> It worked for firefox because it was
On 10/24/07, Kristian Erik Hermansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We really need to have a New York Times advertisement. It worked for
> Firefox and you will find my name (and 10,000 others) on the first
> advertisement shown below...
>
It worked for firefox because it was an original idea - not
We really need to have a New York Times advertisement. It worked for
Firefox and you will find my name (and 10,000 others) on the first
advertisement shown below...
http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-12-15.html
So, we need to round up 10,000 people to make small donations, just as
Mozilla
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