Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Darren.Mansell
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 23:32 +, Alan Pope wrote: > On 31 January 2010 23:13, Liam Wilson wrote: > > IF we are going to make this video, ideally, it would be better to thin= k > > about actual content first. >=20 > I disagree. The very first thing is to look at what the goal is. Only > once you

[ubuntu-uk] Liverpool Linux User Group Meeting - 3rd Feb 2009

2010-02-01 Thread Andrew Williams
Liverpool Linux User Group Meeting - December 2009 Date Wed February 3rd, 2009 from 7:00pm - 8:00pm Location: Liverpool Social Centre, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool, England L1 4HY Speaker: Tom Hall - ZFS/btrfs. Liverpool Linux User Group are a group of Linux and open source software users that meet

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Liam Wilson
Okay, I've been in touch with the marketing team, and they've said that if we wanted to do this, we'd have to look at the costs of producing and marketing the advert, were there to be one. It was also suggested that we should consider not using ITV as the main medium for promoting, but instead use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Before we try to get new users into Ubuntu, shouldn't we try to retain the people flicking in and out of Ubuntu now? There was discussion about supporting new users, with remote techy support. Can we catch those who post "This is too hard, I'm going b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Rob Beard
Quoting Liam Wilson : > Okay, I've been in touch with the marketing team, and they've said that if > we wanted to do this, we'd have to look at the costs of producing and > marketing the advert, were there to be one. It was also suggested that we > should consider not using ITV as the main medium

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread etali
- Original Message - From: "Johnathon Tinsley" > Before we try to get new users into Ubuntu, shouldn't we try to retain > the people flicking in and out of Ubuntu now? > > There was discussion about supporting new users, with remote techy > support. Can we catch those who post "This is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing

2010-02-01 Thread Liam Wilson
Hey Rob; The screenshots were taken on my Dell Mimi at about 1024x600, so scaling them up may not cause too much disorientation. As for what you said about the logo bieng too dark, you were right. I printed one off and the logo is too dark on the background. As for the screenshots, they look fine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread javadayaz
Slightly off topic, but why not a guerilla marketting campaign On 1 February 2010 12:38, etali wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Johnathon Tinsley" > > > Before we try to get new users into Ubuntu, shouldn't we try to retain > > the people flicking in and out of Ubuntu now? >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Liam Wilson
Well, say instead of a TV advert, we contributed our ideas to the Viral Video's project or something similar to make a channel on youtube, or even both, if we're lucky, we could touch on subjects such as Ubuntu hour, and ways to help improve your first time experience with Ubuntu. And I guess we c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 12:35:42AM +, Alan Pope wrote: > I personally don't believe there is a need for a TV advert at all > right now. I'd rather start from the opposite end and ask what the > need of a TV advert is. What goal is to be achieved by putting Ubuntu > on the telly? I don't think

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing

2010-02-01 Thread DaveGK
Liam Wilson wrote: > As for the TV advert, should we like, have a meeting or something so we can > throw ideas around and such? > > Personally, I think it'd be a good idea is the video didn't put other OS' > down, but rather, put Linux/Ubuntu Up, say show easy it is to contribute and > customise U

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Craig Peden
If you could get the ad posted on all major video uploading sites, and other media sharing sites as well as blogs and such. You could easily have yourself a relatively cheap ad campaign. On 1 Feb 2010, at 12:22, Liam Wilson wrote: > Okay, I've been in touch with the marketing team, and they've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Liam Wilson
Indeed, that's what I think, the only cost would be putting the advert(s) together. Who actually wants to make this happen? On 1 February 2010 17:09, Craig Peden wrote: > If you could get the ad posted on all major video uploading sites, and > other media sharing sites as well as blogs and such

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Steve
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:41:01 -, Liam Wilson wrote: > Indeed, that's what I think, the only cost would be putting the advert(s) > together. > > Who actually wants to make this happen? > Me -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Craig Peden
Right, I think that someone needs to get down a list of places we can upload to. On 1 Feb 2010, at 21:53, Steve wrote: > On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:41:01 -, Liam Wilson > > wrote: > >> Indeed, that's what I think, the only cost would be putting the >> advert(s) >> together. >> >> Who actually w