Well Alan, Just using my own situation as a simple template.
I would like to focus on a small local area such as the town Darlington. Darlington is a good choice because it has good railway links to other areas. 1. Start a promotional blitz in the area lasting say 4 weeks. Including Unis, Colleges, libraries and basically anyone who may be interested. Just highlighting Ubuntu. 2. Meet up with the local regeneration team with pointing out the possibility to attract a new exciting technology to the area. That can involve the community and save small business-including social enterprises- start-up companies a lot in IT costs. Asking the Council if they have any suitable venues and free shop fronts. Then ask if they would also like to attend any event or LoCo meetings : they always do anyway. 3. Do the same in local business clubs. In the clubs I have been to so far I thought that I would have to explain all about open-source and Ubuntu. It turned that people were already 'savvy' and some were already using Ubuntu. Further north in Newcastle, RedHat already have a support office. 4. Then go back to stage one advertising actual dates and for events and a possible first LoCo Meet up. John On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 14:28 +0100, alan c wrote: > On 26/06/11 10:34, john beddard wrote: > > My sense is that social enterprise would provide the most interested > > people. Since their approach is similar to that of the open-source > > community. Plus the fact they already have a 'change-mindset.'In wanting > > to serve the community with ideas that originally came from a minority > > base : like Ubuntu. > > What should be done as first steps in this direction? > > -- > alan cocks > Ubuntu user > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/