Yes Scott, we need to start at the grass roots level, given the resources available to Ubuntu-au.
I subscribe to the ubuntu-marketing email list https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing and they talk about this stuff all of the time. The Danish loco team recently had a stall in a shopping centre, giving demos to shoppers. This is the type of thing is what we need to do. http://compadre.dk/blog/2009/11/15/ubuntu-live-in-arhus Cheers, Andrew. On Dec 15, 9:35 am, Scott Evans <sc...@vk7hse.hobby-site.org> wrote: > I'm wondering if the idea is being taken the wrong way... > > Is it so important to have them using ubuntu? or is it better that they > know of ubuntu? because in a perfect world we would have both! but in > the real world I think its only going to be achievable to have one at > this stage. Whilst Microsoft spends millions on advertising/vendor > incentives then it will always be an uphill battle! to add that with no > official funding as such to even compete (and it would be pointless to > even bother!) then word of mouth is our best weapon against the giant! > and certainly targeting local on-line access centres, adult-Ed etc... > would be by far more eventful than a full page spread in a daily rag! > > my 2 cents worth! :-) > > -- > Scott Evans VK7HSE > Phone: +61362291658 > Mobile: +61417586157 > Skype: vk7hse > sc...@vk7hse.hobby-site.orghttp://www.vk7hse.hobby-site.org > PGP/GPG Key ID 437E00F9 > > UbuntuStrapLogo.png > 7KViewDownload > > face-smile.png > 1KViewDownload > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu...@lists.ubuntu.comhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
