Hi all,

(Jono and Matthew cc:ed)

A thread on the -uk list has highlighted the recent poor publicity
that Ubuntu has had as a result of the recent problems with the local
community run servers, in particular on slashdot
(http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/08/15/1341224.shtml).

Does the marketing team have any ideas about a possible way to respond
to this publicity? The recent article in the UWN includes one sentence
which attempts to do that, but it's not a very comprehensive response.

One idea might be to post an article on the Fridge with an honest
explanation and detail of what was done to solve the problem, and (if
applicable) how it could have been avoided with regular security
updates, as freely provided by the Ubuntu team.

See for example:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=270335&cid=20236563
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=270335&cid=20236611

What do people think? Can bad publicity can be turned into good publicity?

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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