Re: [ubuntu-web] Girl gets Ubuntu on a Dell by mistake, absolutely hates it...

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Brett Alton brett.jr.al...@gmail.com wrote:
 Well, we already have an education page, which can be found at:
 http://www.ubuntu.com/education .


 That's very well done, but can we get a link on the front page?

Not today but soon. We're working on improving the content on the
interior portions of the site so that we can have portal pages.
Pages that are like a home page but specific to a certain target
audience. The education page is the first. Rich and the edu team did a
fabulous job on that page. Now we need more.

If you have some suggestions for portal pages and want to work on
content (either in rough form or polished form) you are WELCOME to
help. Please do. Especially I'd love to have something for developers.

This is a topic for the web presence team mailing list or IRC chat
room though. Feel free to send a message to the mailing list or ping
me on IRC if you'd like to steer one.

I believe the best payment I can give people who volunteer or help out
is praise and encouragement so if you do want to own one of these
everyone I know on twitter, identi.ca and facebook will know how much
you rock. :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-art] Example Content

[Matthew Nuzum]

On 2/9/06, Henrik Nilsen Omma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  As far as numerical data is concerned, I was thinking of doing
  something like this along with a related presentation:
 
  Plot data showing linux adoption trends over the last few years. At
  first I thought it would be interesting to show some data from
  distrowatch that demonstrated the rising popularity of Ubuntu as
  compared to other linux distros, but i feel that would present a poor
  image to new Linux users (since it seems to show competition amongst
  the linux community).
 I actually tried this already. You can quite easily get the distrowatch
 numbers from the last year at http://distrowatch.com/text/newhpd.csv but
 at that time Ubuntu was already #1, so the curve doesn't look that
 impressive :) We would need one that started at 0. (but I also agree
 with your point on competitiveness).
  The related presentation that I was envisioning would be a PR
  feeling document that would explain why people like Linux so much,
  some of the great things that make Linux unique and then show adoption
  trends with a graph from the spreadsheet.
 Perfect!

Well, finding interesting data is more difficult than it sounds. I've
started working on a writer document (I've crashed OOo by inserting an
EPS Ubuntu logo, which is interesting - I reported it).

I'm having trouble locating data on Linux adoption trends. I've
thought that maybe I could get my hands on some other data instead.
Some ideas I've had were the number of Ubuntu downloads or maybe the
number of posts to ubuntuforums.org. I've also considered the number
of Linux or Ubuntu users in various regions of the world, maybe by
continent.

Any suggestions? Henrik, do you feel the people at Canonical would be
willing to share any stats about Ubuntu downloads or trends in
adoption, or is this information considered private?

I guess if worse comes to worse, I could plot data about the number of
spam messages that come through my mail server... (just kidding).

I think a good looking graph would show multiple series of data, for
example, comparing the number of Ubuntu downloads in each month during
2004 vs. the same month in 2005, or the number of Ubuntu downloads for
each continent for each month in 2005.

If anyone has any suggestions, or better yet, interesting data that is
freely available, let me know.
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