The lack of a major marketing effort here in the Philippines is one key factor. The only major forms of "brand" presence and/or promotional and advertising of Open-source has been web-based (e.g. blogs, tech forums, etc.). If there were marketing efforts in other media forms, it is not making much progress.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David R. Meyer Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 4:50 AM To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List Subject: [plug] Question for the group... All, I have a question for the group which may, or may not have come up in the past, but what the heck...I'll ask anyway. We all know that the Linux and Open Souce community is a global thing, made possible by the Internet. However, I'm wondering what, if anything, we here in the US can do to help further the adoption of Linux and Open Source within the Philippines. I read the article about MS offering a stripped-down version of Windows @ half the price of regular Windows (which, to my knowledge, is still 100% more expensive than most Linux distros) and how GMA had attended the event in Cebu with Microsoft. So I have to ask...is there anything that we here in the US can do to help in the cause in the Philippines? We're all in the same boat here...wanting to further Open Source and Linux world-wide. Maybe there is something that we can do to assist you. Ideas??? Dave ***** David Meyer http://www.davidmeyer.org _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
