On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/03/2008, Paul Mellors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This type of stuff really gets on my tits, no offence Josh :) But stop > > fricking MS bashing, if you don't want to use MS products don't, but > > there are people out there that do so let em..... > > You make a good point in that we should be careful not to insult MS > and their products when promoting Ubuntu, but Josh didn't actually > insult them and I don't think that was the aim of his post. Most > people don't know they have an option other than Windows and IME have > been very happy to discover an alternative. > > Josh: I think it's a great idea, if targeted at the right people in > the right way. I'm not sure how much influence my MP has, but it would > be great if I could get him to try Ubuntu! I don't know who else it > would be worth trying to target though? I don't really know of any > local organisations in my area. > > It would be great if we could tie this into the Hardy release, as > that's very close to the June deadline. > Does anyone have any specific suggestions as to how we would do this? I set up the ubuntu-uk marketing team on launchpad a while ago https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-uk-marketing with the aim of gathering together interested people. We came up with some brochures and leaflets but didn't really manage to distribute them.
We also wrote a magazine article which people could circulate to local/free newspapers. The article is there but I don't think that people really bothered to try circulate it. So I guess that's the problem. People are interested in helping out up to a point, but when it comes to the crunch it's hard to get people involved in promotion.... How can we address this and what should we do better? Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
