Re: The 3 minute pitch
Hi, Luis Villa a écrit : Note that even at places like LWE no one really cares about Freedom. It is sad, but true. Usability and Free (as in beer) go a lot farther. Freedom as in freedom from vendor lock-in, and freedom of choice tend to go down well (at least here). Freedom as in "I can look under the hood and tinker" goes down about as well as the same argument does at car dealerships with 80 year old women. In terms of economy, there's a really great argument about where money goes, but explaining it in a clear way isn't easy. The TCO argument (claims that free software is more expensive than Windows) holds some water - at least, it's plausible enough that people believe it, and we need to address it. RoI for free software deployments tends to measure itself in years (at least in studies I've heard about, reports have been of higher IT costs in the short term for training, lost productivity and migration costs, falling sharply after 2 to 3 years). But even if you're looking at a higher investment in the short term, you need to look at where the money goes. If you pay the Windows and Office tax, you're sending your euros and dollars to Dublin and Redmond. If you move to free software, you're spoiled for choice for local consultancies, training companies, knowledgeable and competent graduates. Your money is going straight into the local economy. Extramadura even hired some graduates to maintain Guadalinex, which is giving directly skills and money to the local economy. You can end up very quickly as a government breeding your own local centers of excellence in software - as we're seeing in Spain, India, Brazil, Chile. And that money goes to encouraging IT in your country, encouraging new companies, giving graduates an alternative to moving to Europe or the US. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: italian and spanish (v2) live CD now available
On 5/23/05, Marcus Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:31 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > > > Should probably forward that to gnome-i18n@gnome.org if you want > > really overwhelming support :) > > I'm wouldn't be scared of that ;) > > However let's wait with that until we have everything in cvs and some > more languages out. Currently there are three more CDs in the making and > more people getting involved. Once we are done with that we are ready to > climb the next mountain :) Sounds like a plan. Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: italian and spanish (v2) live CD now available
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 10:31 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > Should probably forward that to gnome-i18n@gnome.org if you want > really overwhelming support :) I'm wouldn't be scared of that ;) However let's wait with that until we have everything in cvs and some more languages out. Currently there are three more CDs in the making and more people getting involved. Once we are done with that we are ready to climb the next mountain :) Marcus -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: The 3 minute pitch
Note that even at places like LWE no one really cares about Freedom. It is sad, but true. Usability and Free (as in beer) go a lot farther. Luis On 5/23/05, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just added my name for a lightning talk (but will gladly cede my place > to anyone else wanting to present the same thing). > > The talk will be a 3 minute pitch of GNOME. No slides, just the 2 main > bullet points we want to get across to people when "selling" GNOME - > they will be freedom and usability. > > The first aims at people who are wondering about a switch to free > software, and the second is about what GNOME offers that others in the > domain don't. Or aren't as good at. > > I would love to talk about money too, particularly from a government > point of view, but I want to do 3 minutes, not 30 :) > > Ideas are welcome, I will try to practice beforehand. I will definitely > have index cards. > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > David Neary > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > marketing-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
The 3 minute pitch
I just added my name for a lightning talk (but will gladly cede my place to anyone else wanting to present the same thing). The talk will be a 3 minute pitch of GNOME. No slides, just the 2 main bullet points we want to get across to people when "selling" GNOME - they will be freedom and usability. The first aims at people who are wondering about a switch to free software, and the second is about what GNOME offers that others in the domain don't. Or aren't as good at. I would love to talk about money too, particularly from a government point of view, but I want to do 3 minutes, not 30 :) Ideas are welcome, I will try to practice beforehand. I will definitely have index cards. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: italian and spanish (v2) live CD now available
On 5/23/05, Marcus Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some more live CDs: > > The italian and spanish (v2) versions of the live CD are now available, > as usual under: > > http://project77.info/gnomelive/ > > Luis is putting them up to the new all shiny http://torrent.gnome.org/ > soon. Works like a charm! They are now up on torrent.g.o. > If you would like to see your language added go to: > > http://project77.info/gnomelive/boottext/ > > Most important are isolinux.txt and f1.txt. It wont take more than five > minutes to translate these. Should probably forward that to gnome-i18n@gnome.org if you want really overwhelming support :) Luis -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
italian and spanish (v2) live CD now available
Some more live CDs: The italian and spanish (v2) versions of the live CD are now available, as usual under: http://project77.info/gnomelive/ Luis is putting them up to the new all shiny http://torrent.gnome.org/ soon. Works like a charm! If you would like to see your language added go to: http://project77.info/gnomelive/boottext/ Most important are isolinux.txt and f1.txt. It wont take more than five minutes to translate these. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
