On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 04:25, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > James Sparenberg schrieb am Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:12:28 -0700: > > > One thing MDK has never been good > > at is tooting their own horn. I'm tired of seeing red hats and > > Lethargic Lizards at Linux world etc. We need more Top Hats *grin*. > > Although I agree to this in full I have to point out that we don't live > in an ideal world. Sorry about that. > > Tooting your horn involves money upfront. If you want to see how > Mandrake is able to toot their horn have a look at pictures of LinuxTag > 2000 in Germany (one of the biggest European Linux events): > > http://www.wolf-b.de/linuxtag/linuxtag.html > > That was during the time when there was money to throw around. Now > Mandrake is at a very tight budget, for once to make it out of Chaper 11 > at the end of this year. > > Being presented at exhibitions, distributing boxes overseas (USA, > Canada, Australia) is a costly venture which is right now just not > paying back. > > This may change, of course (hopefully). > > wobo, during one of his rare moments of reality awareness
heck any more I'd say that having a presence at one of the US shows (Linuxworld or Comdex) would be counter productive rather than productive. It's not a software show anymore. But rather a hardware show. Now the horn tooting would come in the form of free press. Press Releases. Letters to users on websites. (Newsforge, pclinuxonline, etc) The most important ones being submission of articles by those in the know on things like URPMI and how it can be used to maintain a network. HowTo articles that put MDK in the forfront. (Even on non MDK specific articles, just saying "on my MDK box I did" or "This is how it's done on a MDK box." Screenshots of a mandrake desktop that kind of thing. James > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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