On 31 January 2010 23:46, Liam Wilson <liamwilso...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, looking at the perspective you've put it at Alan, I guess you're > right. >
I'm just a guy with an opinion. > You mentioned spending the time/money on other things, but what like? Whatever takes your fancy, the project has lots of ways for people to contribute:- http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu > And If we WERE to create a TV adverrt for Ubuntu, no doubt there is interest > in doing so, do you think it's a bit ambitious trying to aim for the release > of Lucid, or do you think would it be a better option to aim for MM or even > beyond? I personally don't believe there is a need for a TV advert at all right now. I'd rather start from the opposite end and ask what the need of a TV advert is. What goal is to be achieved by putting Ubuntu on the telly? > Personally, I think that Lucid would be a good goal to aim for, as > it's 3 months away, and there's less chance of loss of interest in 3 months > than 6 - but that's just my opinion, obviously, you've had experience > working with projects before, such as the UUPC, and I haven't. > We planned the first episode of UUPC for about 3 months. Ok, not solid work, but discussion started in January '08 and S01E01 was released in April '08. Planning for a podcast is a whole different ball game than planning a TV advert. I have no experience of the latter, but can only speculate on how much work is involved. Note also that the cost and effort to us of putting out a podcast episode of 1 _hour_ length is orders of magnitude _less_ than it costs to put out a 1 _minute_ TV advert. Video is harder than audio. Great, compelling video that meets its goal is even harder. > How would you suggest we start this project then, if we're actually > determined to see it through? > I've probably made it quite clear that I don't see the value of having a TV advert. Take a look at the experience one person had with putting together a radio advert and learn from that. http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/09/tux-takes-to-airwve.html http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/10/grand-experiment-linux-ads-on-radio.html Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
