Op dinsdag 30-10-2007 om 14:45 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jan Claeys: > Op maandag 29-10-2007 om 20:58 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Pierre > Vorhagen: > > You see, it is maybe (probably), an error from my side, but I tend to > > think that the first "targets" should be students. For many reasons, > > but mainly because they are in general more quickly OK with trying out > > something new. > > Actually, judging from the response we get at the MicroMegaMarket fairs, > the type of visitors we get at the linuxbabbel events (which hosted the > URP in Roeselare) and the people & organisations that have asked me to > talk about Ubuntu and/or help with installs, I get the impression that > most of the people are actually *not* students. > > Most students in "technical" courses know how to install Ubuntu > themselves, and most of them probably heard about linux and/or unix > already. Now, unfortunately, most of the other students need Windows > because professors simple force them to use it (often citing ridiculous > reasons for that requirement). > > One thing I have found is that people who don't have a lot of experience > with computers need help to install Ubuntu, probably some time to adapt > to it, support from other people adapted to their experience (_not_ > "open a terminal and enter ..."), etc. Of course, this is not really > surprising... > > So: (also) try to get outside of the academic and IT "inside circle". > > Try to get linux/Ubuntu into "ordinary" people's home. Try to get them > out of their home to gather with other linux users. Make sure they > don't feel alienated at linux user gatherings. > > > (I hope this doesn't sound too much like some preaching... ;-) ) > > > -- > Jan Claeys > >
The best example I have seen off people getting interested in Ubuntu, was an 70 year old retiered lady, who just bought her very first pc, second hand and without an OS. The grandson comes to her house and brought with him, indeed an Ubuntu disk, granny got interested and she even completed the installation off Ubuntu herselve, okey not that hard, but then she directly moved on to get stuff done on the computer and her very first OS ever, now she can even work herselve around in the filesystem, she can install software herselve and she is wild about her blazingfast computer. Need I tell you people any more, the persons we need to target are those who are willing to learn and that willingness should by no means be delimited to students or youngsters or young adults or even just adults. As long as they want to learn and want to face that it is different than other systems and want to change the way they work, or even want to discover it themselves, then we can get happy users, who will spread the word about Ubuntu or Linux in general. That is what we need to do, that is who we need to target. -- Kevin Elaerts He who likes free software, but also free beer ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
