Admittedly, this involves money, but is much more reasonable while still offering a nice prize: How about sponsoring them to UDS-N so they can be presented with an award, meet all the team (and possibly even be inspired to make more video?) One thing that was very positive out of the last UDS was the video that came out of it... we need more of that.
Another prize could be a nice selection of official Ubuntu merchandise, a certificate, maybe even an OEM system donated by one of our favourite OEM's. (They'd benefit from the popularity of Ubuntu too.) My point being that there are likely good incentives that fall somewhere between $0 and $100,000. Cheers, Randall. On 10-08-21 09:07 AM, Lisandro Vaccaro wrote: > The 100.000 dollars aside, I don't think it's a bad idea, we have been > talked about it before. > > Isn't there any incentive we can give that doesn't involve money? > > We can get the winner on Ubuntu's main site, what else can we do? > > > > 2010/8/21 Martin Owens <docto...@gmail.com <mailto:docto...@gmail.com>> > > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 09:25 -0400, Mike Feravolo wrote: > > If all you want to do hear is debate what "Free and Open Source > > Software" or "Software Freedom" is all about, then change the > name to > > the "Debate Team". We thought the objective here is to promote > Ubuntu > > a > > superior software product. > > *shrug* Is it? I don't think it is a better software product, although > it's nice to see we have plainly corporate marketing companies > here with > money to throw away. > > We were attempting to set an appropriate level and timing of > making sure > that what we actually have to offer in marketed and not just the very > small and uneconomical charity subset favored here. > > > An idea to consider for a contest is to do something that will > > attract > > people from that make videos from everywhere to produce a video that > > would sell Ubuntu to the general public. For example: A prize of at > > least $100,000 US on the line, (winner takes all) will both get > every > > video freelancer on earth to produce an entry and attract lots media > > attention. > > Do you have $100,000 to set up such a competition? > > Martin, > > > -- > ubuntu-marketing mailing list > ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com > <mailto:ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing > > > > > -- > Lisandro H. Vaccaro > -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
