On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Hardik Dalwadi <hardik.dalw...@ubuntu.com>wrote:
> On Sunday 05 June 2011 10:23 PM, Prakash Advani wrote: > > Those based in Delhi, if you happen to go to Nehru Place, do check out > > the Asus Store.. they have Ubuntu Demo. > > @ All, > > Here is Ubuntu Certified ASUS Machines [1] > > [1] > > http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/search?form.search_text=ASUS&search=Search > > > My colleague Hardik did the setup for them. > > > > Any constructive feedback would be useful.. > > > > On 06/02/2011 09:59 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Prakash Advani <prak...@ubuntu.com > >> <mailto:prak...@ubuntu.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> As a follow up to our Ubuntu in Retail, I have been asked by a > >> store in Nehru Place, Delhi if we can showcase Ubuntu. > >> > >> Here is my thoughts, let me know what you guys think. > >> > >> * Have 1-2 community members at the store to demo Ubuntu. > >> * Have them wear Ubuntu T-Shirts so people perceive it to be > >> professional. > >> * Offer basic installation for free and charge for additional > >> services. This should compare with other services in Nehru > >> Place, where I believe you can go to a store and they will > >> fill your hard drive with all windows software :) > >> * If the customer wants training then this can be offered at > >> their home at a fee. > >> > >> I am thinking we should offer similar services to what people are > >> used to in the Windows world, I know this may not sound very > >> comforting for some of us, but thats what people are used to ;-) > >> > >> > >> Ubuntu cannot get success (in India) without the project like DebBundle > Since there was no clue given about which store is The ASUS store , so i tried my luck with at least three different places where the name of ASUS was mentioned ,one of them prominently only dealt in ASUS so i presumed this to be the store Ubuntu folks have mentioned , this store did not have Ubuntu based Netbooks at all also he tried to lure me into giving discounts on Windows pieces and offered me some DOS based versions but No Ubuntu was available with him, there were two other stores which had ASUS displayed only one of them agreed and offered Ubuntu based Netbooks . curiously found a Compaq desktop bundled with Red Flag Linux :-) overall my experience not a good one like other Distro's in past so i will let this case too for rest now. -Satya fossevents.in
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