VidA wrote: [...] > For example : Suppose the loco team and Canonical** are exhibiting at > the same event/conference, which will be taken seriously, the loco > team or the Canonical team? Why should there be separate efforts and > not a team effort ? Keeping Canonical separate from the community > marketing and from loco efforts seems counter-productive imho.
I do not think counterproductive. For example at UK Linux World (London) Canonical had a stand. And so did the various communities, including a Ubuntu UK team (I helped). I knew one or two people at the C stand, and met another - which was useful. The next year I borrowed a Canonical formal display roll-up stand for a FOSS event locally here in my town) for Software Freedom day. I think trying to channel too strongly will loose us some benefit. Canonical is hoping to make a profit from selling services and support - most obviously to the corporate market. Canonical do not have many employees. At the exhibition (above) I wore a Ubuntu Tee shirt and Ubuntu Baseball hat and was covered in stickers...... :-) A couple of professors from a UK University stopped me in the crowd and asked for information to help with a (big) international contract (for Ubuntu) they had just won. I was able to take them to the (corporate) Ubuntu Canonical stand. They would be intersetd in business support and corporate and international contact. I noted that the interest and energy at that exhibition at the community stand was quite different at the two stands. Vive la difference! -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
