Well, say instead of a TV advert, we contributed our ideas to the Viral Video's project or something similar to make a channel on youtube, or even both, if we're lucky, we could touch on subjects such as Ubuntu hour, and ways to help improve your first time experience with Ubuntu.
And I guess we could at least try contacting canonical or dell, or some other company, to see what response we get. On 1 February 2010 12:38, etali <et...@myth-games.com> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Johnathon Tinsley" <kir...@kirrus.co.uk> > > > Before we try to get new users into Ubuntu, shouldn't we try to retain > > the people flicking in and out of Ubuntu now? > > > > There was discussion about supporting new users, with remote techy > > support. Can we catch those who post "This is too hard, I'm going back > > to windows" and try to retain more of them with a high-quality community > > support mechanism? > > > > I agree. > > I think the people who try Ubuntu (or Linux in general), have problems with > it, and then rant about it to their friends have a lot of power in terms of > persuading people to avoid Ubuntu. > > Advertising to new people will only work if a)those people haven't already > heard bad things, and b)we can keep those people as users once they decide > to download + install it. > > -- > Lesley Harrison > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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