Hi Eric, EricFoong wrote: > > Hi Jellel, > > Nice to meet you. It is glad to meet a young entrepreneur from > Netherlands! After I have read your email, I have the following questions: > > 1. What type of marketing or branding strategy that you have made to > improve awareness of Ubuntu Linux in Netherlands?
This is a far to wide question to answer completely. But to summary, we make magazines, we give meetings, we provide irq support, and try to get as much media attention as possible. We also give advice to company's and the government about Floss and Ubuntu. > 2. Why you select the ¡°Moderately Interest¡± option for answer 4 and 5 > of the question 5 in the questionnaire while other factors as ¡°High > Interest¡±? Do you think the OS that can help consumer to achieve their > personal needs and the emotional benefit (Youth Generation OS, Dancing > with Computer: Use It, Love It, Pass It On) have no impact on the > motivation? I filled in he questionnaire form my point fo view, My point is not the same as the average user. I use Linux because I believe in its philosophy, the fact fact that you can download it at no cost is not relevant for me personally. From the marketing perspective I look at the average user and make a switch in the way the user is motivated to use Linux. Things like money, multimedia, interests, emotional satisfaction, easy use etcetera become important. > 3. Similar to question above, why you select the ¡°Moderately > Important¡± option for answer 4 and 5 of the question 6 in the > questionnaire while other factors as ¡°High Interest¡±? Do you think the > OS that can help consumer to achieve their personal needs and the > satisfaction cannot make the consumer to stay with the same brand? See previous point. > 4. What is your company name and your position in that company? What is > your company website? We got a starting company, that is specialised in the research and development, together with training in the development of embedded hard- and software that is development with only Floss development tools. We are trying to create a new type of base platform for the development with Floss development tools. Starting with ARM micro controllers together with Embedded Linux (ARM-Linux) If somebody want to give feedback or has some questions, I am happy to respond. Best regards, Jelle (PS, everybody good work with gusty, up to the next release :-P) > I have resent the questionnaire design feedback form in PDF format. > Please comment on the questionnaire. Your feedback is highly appreciated. > > > > Feedback on this email is very welcome, so everybody feel free to anticipate > in it! > > Thank you. > > > > Regards, > Eric Foong > > > > > */Jelle de Jong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > > Dear EricFoong, > > My name is Jelle de Jong, I am an entrepreneur and strong believer in > FLOSS technology's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS). I have a > starting company specialised in the development and training of embedded > hard- en software system designed with FLOSS technology. I am a member > of the Free Software Foundation Europe (http://www.fsfeurope.org/) and I > do marketing and promoting for FLOSS and Ubuntu Linux in the > Netherlands. > > In my experience, the first step to motivate students when they have to > do work, involving Ubuntu Linux related items, is to get them USE Ubuntu > as there primarily operating system. Give them support for al there > questions. Also teach them the complete GNU philosophy > (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/) But take this step by step. I have seen > people get very annoyed and scared with this flooding of information and > getting the idea that everybody supporting GNU are fools, and you don't > want that! (they and up working for a company called Microsoft!) > > The question how to keep people using Ubuntu Linux for the rest of there > live is very important! The fact that Ubuntu Linux is free, is only a > motivator to get people to try Ubuntu Linux. It is important that you > explain all the problems with Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux is not perfect, > neither is Microsoft Windows. When people are fully comfortable with the > negative aspects of Ubuntu Linux and stand behind the GNU/FLOSS > philosophy, they will stay using Ubuntu Linux and overcome all the > obstacles they will find when using Ubuntu Linux. For example a lot of > people have tried Ubuntu Linux, but moved back to Windows because it did > not meet there expectations on the long run! > > You can find more research spread over the internet, a good source is > Wikipedia and the FSFE. The documents I send you also contain references > to detailed sources. > > Feedback on this email is very welcome, so everybody feel free to > anticipate in it! > > Best regards, > > Jelle (tuxcrafter) > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
