Update for Germany, 2011: Most internet cafes i see switched to Ubuntu meanwhile. This is always a good starting point for students (for example moving or on holiday) who use cafes a lot.
The very single thing they use in the first place is the internet browser. It is not really adding to this discussion but it must be siad that the available browsers (and preferably firefox or konqueror) need to be priority #1 today, especially at the brink of cloud computing. That said, this will alll change since more and more young people have PDAs and other internet mobiles. They won't need internet cafes anymore. (I believe these will all die away sooner or later.) So the mobile or PDA market would be another priority, but this is a totally different stage. But getting students to know Linux is not fully efficient anyway. The first computer experience is what counts, and that's (for most kids) when they are in school age. Which means, schools and of course, parents are the multiplyers. And there we need an easy desktop again. I propose: * To supply marriage offices with linux distros to hand out. * To convince school directors with presentation visits and selfmade high quality coffee. * To initiate a unified taskforce to create a fully operational linux OS for mobiles, based on Debian, and convince Blackberry to be the first member. * To convince Novell SuSe to move to Debian too. (I am sorry but what the heck) * A good media PR for the first space enabled Ubuntu for the ISS (handed over by Shuttleworth) * Append 'created on <bla> linux to every mail and document. * nuclear-power free linux :) All that payed by governemnt of course. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Team UGR, which is subscribed to ugr-meta. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in GenOS: In Progress Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: New Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Arch Linux: New Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnometeam More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
