Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Countdown Script

2008-06-05 Thread Corey Burger
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:55 PM, John Botscharow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think I saw something about this on a different list, can't remember wjocj pne. maybe the loco-contacts, but you might want to check and see if someone already filed a bug

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-20 Thread Corey Burger
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Marketing Team Members and Interested Parties, I'd like to report on the session we had here at UDS regarding Ubuntu Marketing so that we can get a wider audience and allow everyone a fair chance to share

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The future of the Marketing Team

2008-05-20 Thread Corey Burger
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Cody A.W. Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Justin M. Wray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to throw in support for the idea, having a dedicated site would do wonders for content sharing. Something like a mix of a wiki +

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Promoting Ubuntu at libraries?

2008-03-22 Thread Corey Burger
snip So, before I meander way off topic: I can't possibly be the only one who has pondered promoting Ubuntu, in some way, at a public library. Any experiences, examples, related stories, screams of terror or links? Feel free to share! Others have pointed out the Ubuntu in Libraries

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Question about Ubuntu on Dell

2008-02-04 Thread Corey Burger
On 2/4/08, Retief de Villiers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear sir/madam I do not know where to direct this question, but Dell does not offer any laptop with Ubuntu on laptops sold in South Africa. I really think this is tragic that this is the case in the country that, in a certain sense, can

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] T-shirt design ideas

2008-02-01 Thread Corey Burger
On Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Kat Kinnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Hope you are well. At the moment I am working on a project to create new t-shirt designs for the Loco Conference Pack and to give away for free at events. The t-shirt designs that have been used in the past are

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu/Linux survey. Preference and questions...

2008-02-01 Thread Corey Burger
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Corey Burger wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's coming up to the one year anniversary of Full Circle Magazine and I'd like to hold a survey among

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu/Linux survey. Preference and questions...

2008-01-30 Thread Corey Burger
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's coming up to the one year anniversary of Full Circle Magazine and I'd like to hold a survey among the readers to see what they like/dislike about the magazine and also about Ubuntu and/or Linux. My first

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu/Linux survey. Preference and questions...

2008-01-30 Thread Corey Burger
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's coming up to the one year anniversary of Full Circle Magazine and I'd like to hold a survey among the readers to see what they like/dislike about the magazine and also about Ubuntu and/or Linux. My first

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Shift linux is now based on Ubuntu

2008-01-28 Thread Corey Burger
On Jan 28, 2008 3:03 AM, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for information - another distro has decided to use ubuntu as a basis. http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04724 ' Shift Linux has moved away from its Morphix base and is now based on Ubuntu. '

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] How to market Ubuntu in a better way

2008-01-15 Thread Corey Burger
On Jan 15, 2008 11:05 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi fellow Ubunteros! I've found a great post on Digg, about problems with Ubuntu marketing: http://www.gobanquet.com/blog/index.php/why-ubuntu-804-needs-better-marketing/ Take a look at it, and if you have some spare time,

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] getting the Ubuntu and Linux laptop efforts to move forward

2007-12-20 Thread Corey Burger
On Dec 20, 2007 12:34 PM, Tom M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all - who might be appropriate for contacting, (or what list) for coordinating an effort to update the laptop testing team page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam Having run the testing team for a while, I can say that

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Dethroning Ubuntu - nice article

2007-12-07 Thread Corey Burger
On Dec 7, 2007 4:17 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a nice article on the net: Dethroning Ubuntu -- What Would It Take? http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/31771_3714986_1 It talks about strong and weak points of Ubuntu and about making a successful product

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Idea: Dell FREEDOM Box - A Fully Open System for Home Users by 2010

2007-11-30 Thread Corey Burger
On Nov 30, 2007 8:55 PM, Danny Piccirillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's something posted to IdeaStorm just a couple days ago but it has already reached the IdeaStorm front page and received 500+ votes in favor. With 430+ Diggs, could it hit the top 10 tomorrow?

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] gOS - worth being aware of!

2007-11-14 Thread Corey Burger
On Nov 14, 2007 11:47 AM, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just used a gos live cd and think I have seen the future of computing for basic users! I am not surprised that the walmart stock quickly sold out. Based on ubuntu, the simplicity of a broadband (wired) connection, a modern but

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Christmas Marketing Campaign

2007-11-08 Thread Corey Burger
On Nov 8, 2007 5:31 PM, Philip Newborough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've had an idea for a Christmas marketing campaign to replace last month's Countdown to Gutsy. I've blogged about it here: http://crunchbang.org/archives/2007/11/08/a-merry-ubuntu-christmas/ I'd be interested to know

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu in schools - Saint Stephen's School Open House - Lessons learned and questions

2007-11-01 Thread Corey Burger
On 11/1/07, Joseph Guarino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, We had quite the success with the open house at Saint Stephen's Armenian Elementary School yesterday. Many thanks to the efforts of Michael Selva, the school administrator for bringing this great success forward. In

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Let People Know the Wireless Devices that Work with Ubuntu Could Help with Marketing

2007-10-29 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/29/07, Ez Tips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I would like to know if anyone is keeping track of the WIFI devices that work with Ubuntu. Before someone snarls about this being off topic for the marketing group, think about how many people need to use wireless networks and how

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] The ubuntu.com website

2007-10-28 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/28/07, Martin Ahnelöv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'll make this quick and to the point. I'm sorry if ubuntu-marketing isn't the right place for this email: in that case, please forward it to the correct instance. From my experience, Ubuntu.com looks a bit weird in - at least - IE6

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] ITWire story submission

2007-10-23 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/22/07, Robin Jakobsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool article! But how do I find Ubuntu Media Center? Robin The plan currently is to incluce Elisa, which is currently under heavy development. I widely expect it to become stable in the Hardy lifecycle. http://elisa.fluendo.com/ Corey

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] 'new' CD stand.

2007-10-18 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/18/07, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Wood wrote: Hi all, I've been playing with the design of the DIY CD Stand. An SVG containing my changes can be found here: http://www.mungewell.org/linux/cd_stand.svg The improvements are: * Only requires single side printing. *

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Tour of Ubuntu 7.10?

2007-10-16 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/16/07, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, For Ubuntu 7.04, we had a tour on the website: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/704tour, based on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/7.04Tour. Is anyone working on a tour for Ubuntu 7.10? That was mine. I suppose something

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Screencasts

2007-10-11 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/10/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 18:36 -0700, Corey Burger wrote: The screencasts stuff has been cool beans for a very long time. However, is there a reason you have chosen not to put them on the Fridge? I just didn't want to annoy people

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Does any one have a video testimonial?

2007-10-11 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone point me to a link for Ubuntu Video Testimonial more specific to India/Asia? I tried Ubuntu India on Youtube and could not really find any results. Something like the one available at the URL below (covers Suse) would be

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Status of the Spread Ubuntu Project?

2007-10-11 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/5/07, NurseGirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if thaht project could be finished and put online. What needs to happen to get the site online? The last site draft that was up looked great. NurseGirl I honestly have no idea. I don't even know where the code is hosted,

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Screencasts

2007-10-09 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/9/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 19:35 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: The Screencasts Team are doing amazing work on screencasts for Ubuntu Gutsy, and they will launch a Month of Screencasts in 8 days. The ringleader is Alan Pope, cc'd.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Windows Home Server

2007-10-04 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/4/07, Dalton Miyabara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any version of Ubuntu to work as a HTPC (Home Theater Personal Computer)? If we don´t have it, I think we should create a version that could be used for this area too. So the final package would be like this: Desktop , HTPC and

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Audio UWN

2007-10-02 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/2/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:14:36PM -0400, Nick Ali wrote: On 10/2/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The interviews would be of people in the Ubuntu community - developers and so on. The logistics of this are tricky given the majority of

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] video editing

2007-10-02 Thread Corey Burger
On 10/2/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Corey, On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:47 -0700, Corey Burger wrote: Very cool idea. As jokosher grew out of Lugradio, maybe this could help spur development of Pitivi. Thanks. Video editing is indeed a bane under Linux. I contacted

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Schoolbooks?

2007-08-15 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/15/07, Iwan Vosloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. I've been lurking on this list for a while now, but am still unsure if this is the right place for this mail... but I do think this is a marketing opportunity. I have been asked by a local (local == South Africa) publisher to write

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Marketing Videos

2007-08-15 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/14/07, Matthew East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Offlist, since I won't add much to my previous post. On 14/08/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Back on list. Sorry, the marketing list confuses me! I keep forgetting you have to cc it back in when your reply to a post ---

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Fwd: Ubuntu Marketing Videos

2007-08-15 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/15/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you don't accept that drupal (which is the software used by ubuntuvideo.com) has the appropriate features which this project needs, then it's important for you to explain why, because so far you haven't done so. Also, you should address

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Internet Market

2007-08-03 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/3/07, Dalton Miyabara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Mike Feravolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cópia: ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Data: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 23:10:41 -0700 Assunto: [Spam] Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Television Market, Orlando FLorida USA On 8/1/07, Mike

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Testing wiki page for Tribe 4

2007-08-03 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/3/07, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, The fourth Tribe is about to be born next Thursday. It would be lovely if someone could create a new testing page [1]? Things that I see are worth mentioning from the Gnome side: - Gnome 2.19.6 - scrollkeeper replaced by

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Television Market, Orlando FLorida USA

2007-08-02 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/1/07, Mike Feravolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Day All: Yesterday, I meet with the advertising staff of the local ABC TV station in Orlando Florida. They put on a nice 60 minute presentation on using television effectively to promote business and their rate card for a 12 month

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Singapore Charity to use Edubuntu desktops for computer lab

2007-08-02 Thread Corey Burger
On 7/23/07, Anand Vaidya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Club Rainbow(http://www.clubrainbow.org/) is a charity that provides compassionate relevant services for terminally ill children in Singapore. The Singapore Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/5/), an informal meetup of linux

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu from a CIO's POV

2007-08-02 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/1/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This article has just been posted to /. http://www.cio.com/article/print/126702 It's well worth reading as a well balanced review of Ubuntu from the perspective of the Chief Information Officer of a large organisation. Cheers Chris The

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Suggestion for the weekly letters

2007-07-28 Thread Corey Burger
On 7/28/07, Martin Albisetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guillaume: I appreciate the suggestion, and at one point we did have them, but it got too hard to maintain on a weekly basis, and it's very irregular (depends on what stage of the release cycle Ubuntu is). I'm CCing Corey Burger to see

[ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team meeting

2007-07-05 Thread Corey Burger
Hey all, Once again, the clock rolls around to a marketing team meeting. There are a number of topics up for discussion: 1. Getting people interesting in doing the Tribe pages without me 2. Introduction of Katharine Kinnie, Canonical's new marketing manager 3. Questions the community has of her

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing efforts and leaflets

2007-06-20 Thread Corey Burger
On 6/20/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, This message has been posted to Ubuntu-UK Ubuntu Marketing because I'm hoping that there are people subscribed to both lists with thoughts on this subject. With Software Freedom Day around the corner (September 15th) I've been

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Hi List

2007-06-19 Thread Corey Burger
On 6/19/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, Just a quick email to say hello and quickly introduce myself. My name is Chris, I'm a member of the Ubuntu-UK loco team and I thought I'd take a leap and see if there where any skills that I could offer to the marketing team too.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] In The Press

2007-06-19 Thread Corey Burger
Thanks for your email. I will add it to the next UWN. Corey On 6/19/07, Andi Darmawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All marketing team, FYI, an Indonesian Linux Magazine called InfoLINUX is giving a DVD that contains iso file for Ubuntu 7.04 (Desktop, Alternate and Server), Kubuntu 7.04,

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] fullcircle #1 - ready for Marketing perusal...

2007-06-07 Thread Corey Burger
On 6/7/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Corey, On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:51:45AM -0700, Corey Burger wrote: In the future, how do we make certain wiki-based editing is better done and gets into the magazine? Is there another place that first level editing should be done? I

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Testing wiki page for Tribe 1

2007-06-03 Thread Corey Burger
On 6/1/07, Corey Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/07, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello marketing team! As a short intro, I will manage the releases of the Gutsy testing milestones now, since Tollef is busy with the Mobile project. The first testing milestone for Gutsy

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] ubuntu-news team

2007-06-03 Thread Corey Burger
On 5/29/07, Martin Albisetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/29/07, Jono Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Will creating this new time gut the marketing team? I wonder this too - I think the marketing team needs to be primarily orientated around outreach and promotion, whereas the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] ubuntu-news team

2007-06-03 Thread Corey Burger
The idea would be to have an ubuntu-news team, which would in fact just group all of us working on UWN, The Fridge, Ubuntu.com News and FullCircle. Most of the current projects members overlap, as the news stories do, so something useful for The Fridge, might also be useful for UWN. I

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] fullcircle #1 - ready for Marketing perusal...

2007-06-03 Thread Corey Burger
On 6/3/07, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's been a long time coming but it's finally here! full circle - issue #1 is now ready for the Marketing Team to read before release. I've put this pre-release up on : http://www.ronnietucker.co.uk/fullcircle-issue01-english.pdf Unless

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Testing wiki page for Tribe 1

2007-06-01 Thread Corey Burger
On 6/1/07, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello marketing team! As a short intro, I will manage the releases of the Gutsy testing milestones now, since Tollef is busy with the Mobile project. The first testing milestone for Gutsy Gibbon, called 'Tribe 1' is ahead and planned for next

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team meeting

2007-05-25 Thread Corey Burger
Oh, I forgot to mention this will be in #ubuntu-meeting, the usual place. Corey On 5/25/07, Corey Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/22/07, Freddy Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does this Saturday, 20:00 UTC, work for everybody? That puts it late evening Europe time and mid

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] full circle magazine: meeting #1!

2007-05-23 Thread Corey Burger
On 5/23/07, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... we'll have our meeting this Saturday at 6pm(UK) and i'll mention at the meeting that a marketing meeting will be happening soon just to forewarn the FC folks about it... Ok, that works. But please, when talking about time, use UTC. It

[ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Team meeting

2007-05-18 Thread Corey Burger
Hey all It has come time for the marketing team to have another meeting. There are a bunch of things that need to be covered, including: 1. Common resources for the UWN/fullcircle/behindubuntu 2. Introduction of the new way to send in things to the marketing team 3. Kickstarting DIY and getting

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Proposals for UWN

2007-05-18 Thread Corey Burger
On 5/18/07, Martin Albisetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/17/07, José Lecaros Cisterna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't always have to be somebody who is already known for an interview... why couldn't it spotlight community users for their contributions? Somebody not known by

[ubuntu-marketing] UWN Fullcircle: Keeping our ducks in a row

2007-05-17 Thread Corey Burger
Hey all, With both the UWN and Fullcicle working hard, there are a few places that we need to make certain we are not overlapping on work. This isn't about not running the same content, merely making certain we have a common process of getting that content. Here are my concrete proposals: 1.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] UWN Fullcircle: Keeping our ducks in a row

2007-05-17 Thread Corey Burger
On 5/17/07, Jenda Vancura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Corey Burger wrote: Hey all, With both the UWN and Fullcicle working hard, there are a few places that we need to make certain we are not overlapping on work. This isn't about not running

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Live Invite

2007-05-11 Thread Corey Burger
On 5/10/07, Martin Albisetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/10/07, Jenda Vancura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In accordance to what you mentioned on IRC, I suppose you meant a Marketing Team meeting ツ I did mean a meeting, I'm sorry about that, I slipped. A meeting would be great... and the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] fullcircle - issue #1 [update]

2007-05-10 Thread Corey Burger
Ronnie, Excellent content there. I love the various reviews. It does kind of need a table of contents, intro bit, etc. All in all, excellent work. Corey -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Commercial

2007-05-09 Thread Corey Burger
On 5/7/07, Remo Quintino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I'm writing for the Ubuntu Italian Promoters (sort of Marketing Team but Italy-centric), to talk with you about the possibility to create a commercial about and for Ubuntu. An Ubuntu Italian user has expressed his will to create

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Press Releases and feature guides for Ubuntu 7.04

2007-04-17 Thread Corey Burger
n 4/17/07, Chris Kenyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Tour: this goes on the wiki, and has screenshots; basically what we've called the release notes before. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyFawn/RC https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistyFawn/RC/Kubuntu Can we rename the pages to include

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] #0 released - it's official!

2007-04-15 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/15/07, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok guys, the issue #0 of full circle is now officially released, here's the download link for the release candidate of #0 : http://files.fullcirclemagazine.org/uploads/issue0.pdf We'll obviously put it up on our website for download, any

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Please Help Us Spread the Good Word About Ubuntu

2007-04-15 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/13/07, Mike Feravolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: My name is Mike Feravolo and I run a small computing solutions business in Cocoa Beach, Florida. We advocate the use of Ubuntu and other open source software applications to other small businesses. We attend numerous business

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - frontpage at ubuntuforums.org

2007-04-13 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/12/07, Jenda Vancura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good news everyone! The UWN has made it to the frontpage of ubuntuforums.org, and is staying there. We've discussed this with Martin, and would like to try out the following scheme: A

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Weekly News: Issue #35

2007-04-10 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/9/07, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:24:07PM -0300, Martin Albisetti wrote: === Ext4 Support Dropped in Feisty === The ext4 file system will not be included in Feisty. While it is not likely to corrupt files, it is not believed to be stable yet.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Feisty Fawn - New Features List x 4 ?

2007-04-08 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/9/07, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm on the scrounge for some info to put into the last remaining fullcircle article... Mainly, i'm looking for new features lists for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu. I'm also looking for recent screens of the desktops and some

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] fullcircle #0 - beta3

2007-04-07 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/7/07, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've received very little feedback on beta2 and so far no feedback on beta3. Now this may be a good thing on my part (i should be so lucky!), but i'm just concerned that people are not supplying feedback now, and when I release the final beta

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] fullcircle #0 - beta3

2007-04-07 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/7/07, Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The History of Ubuntu article was written by me using various sources such as wikipedia and various websites... NONE of it is copy/pasted.\ Ok, no worries. I know we discussed using the ars technica article as a basis, I was just a touch

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Gnome Control Centre

2007-04-06 Thread Corey Burger
On 4/6/07, Matthew East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il giorno ven, 30/03/2007 alle 12.37 -0700, Corey Burger ha scritto: On 3/30/07, rohit sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have keenly been tracking progress of feisty fawn (since i plan to migrate to ubuntu linux). Whilst viewing

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Gnome Control Centre

2007-04-05 Thread Corey Burger
On 3/30/07, rohit sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have keenly been tracking progress of feisty fawn (since i plan to migrate to ubuntu linux). Whilst viewing the screenshots of feisty fawn's alpha releases i noticed a noteworthy change: the introduction of the gnome control center in the

[ubuntu-marketing] user support email coming through to this list

2007-04-05 Thread Corey Burger
I have noticed a small amount of user support email coming through to this list. I suspect it is because of the footer on the UWN and the various release notes. Shall we change this to say: For user support, please see [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corey -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list

[ubuntu-marketing] So I had a quick conversation with Chris Kenyon at Canonical

2007-03-27 Thread Corey Burger
Hey all, Prompted by some concerns within the team about duplication of resources and my own thoughts about how we can better coordinate with Canonical, poor me stayed well past my bedtime (UK is +8 on me) and spoke with Chris. He reiterated that the Canonical marketing efforts are fairly

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] So I had a quick conversation with Chris Kenyon at Canonical

2007-03-27 Thread Corey Burger
= Addendum = I forgot one thing. Chris is going to be setting up a wiki page cataloguing all the things Canonical and the community will be working on for the release. When said page is created, I will ping the list with its name. Corey -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Meeting

2007-03-21 Thread Corey Burger
On 3/21/07, Martin Albisetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! Since we haven't had a meeting for some time, now would be a great time to have one and get things going again. Add whatever you want discussed in: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam/Meetings What would be a good day/hour to

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marketing Meeting

2007-03-21 Thread Corey Burger
On 3/21/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally can't make it, I have like 9 parties to attend that day, thanks to my wife (aka the cruise director). Is it possible to submit a topic for consideration and possible discussion w/o being able to be there myself if I were to write it out

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] add an In the blogosphere section to UWN?

2007-03-18 Thread Corey Burger
On 3/17/07, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as the title would suggest. How would you all feel about adding a section to the UWN devoted to the blogosphere, I could help keep up with this since I have TONS of cool RSS feeds about Ubuntu, and that mention ubuntu regularly. Sounds good.

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Marking the Feisty release

2007-03-01 Thread Corey Burger
On 3/1/07, Jono Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I was involved in some discussions yesterday about coming up with some ideas of how to mark the Feisty release in a unique and interesting way. The idea is that the community could do something interesting, attention grabbing and

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Library Outreach

2007-02-08 Thread Corey Burger
On 2/8/07, Dan Shufelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When trying to get a library / business to adopt usage of Ubuntu based distributions have you taken the time to show them what it is? If not I would be very interested in helping to determine needs and creating either demo or a screen cast

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu 7.04

2007-02-03 Thread Corey Burger
On 2/1/07, Roger Corbett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Will version 7.04 include Beryl? Thanks, Roger Corbett We are not the people who can properly answer this, but the current answer is: Maybe. Corey -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] All testing links are broken

2007-02-03 Thread Corey Burger
On 2/1/07, David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/herd2#head-89d1bec6bf9d20afd735a459259d7c4cbb7c946d All the links in the reporting bugs and testing section are broken. I'd like to actually test Feisty and give useful feedback. How can I do that?

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Feisty Fawn Herd 2

2007-01-30 Thread Corey Burger
Oops. These links should be links to the wiki. Corey On 1/30/07, Pascal Dornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Um, all of these links don't work. If you plan to do an installation of Feisty Herd 2, be sure to head to [http://www.ubuntu.com/TestingTesting]. With just a few minutes of time at your

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] DIY Update

2007-01-13 Thread Corey Burger
On 1/13/07, Martin Albisetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on the DIY Website status. Done: - Spread It! section is now pulling data from the database (http://diy.devubuntu.com/spread.php) It's also counting visits, so the Most Visited is automatically

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Not using gobby (UWN)

2006-12-10 Thread Corey Burger
On 12/10/06, t u [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is it possible not to use gobby? It's just horribly hard to find out what changed between pre-gobby and post-gobby changes. Have a look:

[ubuntu-marketing] Changes at the UWN

2006-12-10 Thread Corey Burger
Hey all, In the wake of the delayed 24th issue (still not out due to me forgetting the password), some of us had a quick brainstorm. We have made the following changes: Added Beats and laid out specifically which sections are optional and which are not. You can see the list of beats and the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] diy website / spreadubuntu brainstorming

2006-12-03 Thread Corey Burger
On 12/1/06, Jan Vancura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Buch wrote: yes, it's a bit silly, but it occurred to me that spreadubuntu might be the right place for this (already added to wikipage MarketingTeam/DIYWebsite): Emergency

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Humorous video example (Novell)

2006-11-08 Thread Corey Burger
On 11/8/06, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Corey Burger wrote: On 11/4/06, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this a while ago and really like it. I share the link because - it is good - but also because I began to think that we might have someone who could create amusing meaningful

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Targeted email, phone, and face-to-face tactics

2006-11-07 Thread Corey Burger
On 11/5/06, Daniel Buch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most educational institutions, government agencies, and corporations are easily reachable by phone or email, making them a considerably more accessible target than then general public. I say this mostly from experience in working with K-12 and

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu 'rough' poster

2006-11-03 Thread Corey Burger
On 11/2/06, Brian Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was discussion on the -marketing IRC channel last week about some different designs for Ubuntu posters promotional material; one idea that got mentioned was the old, black white only 'foo has a posse' or Obey posters and similar street

[ubuntu-marketing] [Bug 63192] Re: Ubuntu web site does not say where I can buy a laptop with Ubuntu

2006-10-01 Thread Corey Burger
Good idea, needs some discussion as to implementation ** Changed in: ubuntu-website (upstream) Importance: Undecided = Wishlist -- Ubuntu web site does not say where I can buy a laptop with Ubuntu https://launchpad.net/bugs/63192 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list

[ubuntu-marketing] Planning for my absence: UWN and the Beta page

2006-09-20 Thread Corey Burger
Hello all, Work periodically requires me to be away for a week or more and that time has come again. I am headed to Colorado from Sunday the 24th of Sept until Saturday the 30th. Normally this is not an issue, but I have been doing two time critical things recently: the UWN and the Knot/Beta

[ubuntu-marketing] Completely restructured UWN pages

2006-09-16 Thread Corey Burger
Hey all, I have restructured the following pages: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter -make the the current and in development links more like sentences, to follow better https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Ideas - /Prosposals now redirects here - removed old stuff -

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Prefer email text/plain

2006-09-16 Thread Corey Burger
On 9/10/06, Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WRT the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, there are still a few of us die-hard unix people out here who use text-based mail readers, like mutt :-) I don't mind that you have a nice web-based page for the newsletter, but I like to be able to read the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Weekly News #13

2006-09-16 Thread Corey Burger
On 9/10/06, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 03:16:12AM -0700, Corey Burger wrote: Welcome to the latest Ubuntu Weekly News, covering the happenings and events in the Ubuntu community from September 3rd through the 9th. In this issue, we cover Scott James

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] new weekly newsletter format

2006-09-16 Thread Corey Burger
On 9/10/06, Matthew MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi- I subscribed to the mailing list because I liked getting the plain format email in my inbox. It's low stress to read and scan through, and doesn't involve switching over to my browser. It's also easier to go back to and read more of

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu promotional material

2006-09-15 Thread Corey Burger
On 9/14/06, Alan Helmore-Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning list, This is my first posting on ubuntu-marketing, I normally live on ubuntu-uk. I started a conversation yesterday, over on ubuntu-uk about some promotional material, Jono Bacon pointed out that this is a more sensible

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Knot 3 preparations

2006-09-12 Thread Corey Burger
On 9/11/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we're getting close to a knot 3 release now, so I was wondering if you could prepare something like http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/knot2, but for knot 3. Thanks, and please Cc me on replies; I'm not subscribed. Tollef, We have

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Specific efforts for ubuntu in countries where BSA is active?

2006-09-10 Thread Corey Burger
On 9/10/06, Tom M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any efforts being made to specifically market to countries where the BSA is starting to crack down, such as Malaysia? That would be something that the Marketing team would have to work with the Malaysian LoCo team. I believe if adequate

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Suggestion for weekly newsletter

2006-09-10 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/31/06, Christian Convey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I'm keen to watch not only the number of newly reported bugs, which you already have in the newsletter, but also the number of bugs that more towards the various states of resolution. I care about this because I'm concerned in

[ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Weekly News planning meeting

2006-09-10 Thread Corey Burger
Hello all, I decided the various editors of the Ubuntu Weekly News need to have a meeting Given there is no easy time to do this and I want to have this meeting before the next edition, 14, is out. Thus we are going to meet on Wednesday, Sept 13th at 1am UTC. You can find out your local time at

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Weekly News #12

2006-09-04 Thread Corey Burger
somewhere else. On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:49:47PM -0700, Corey Burger wrote: = Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue #12 = [...] First of all, thanks for writing (or helping to write) those! Your welcome. snip If you are able, please help us test this update. You can find more information

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] A call for help on the Knot2 page

2006-08-29 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/29/06, Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:48:52 -0700, Corey Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The page is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TextEditorCDRemoval A more relevant wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyEft/Knot2 :) Hmm, wrong thing on the clipboard

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Flash-Free Videos

2006-08-23 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/22/06, John Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've added a flash free option on Ubuntu Video (http://www.ubuntuvideo.com). Some videos aren't available via the various flash powered streaming services and this allows me to group and link them in a logical way. This also provides some

[ubuntu-marketing] Ubucon Re: Moving forward on a fleet of Segways - YA RLY

2006-08-21 Thread Corey Burger
On 8/21/06, Paul Sladen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Matthew Revell wrote: On 21/08/06, Matthew East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to push my views on the team, [...] I'm sorry to see you step back, [...] I'm tempted to myself in fact. Or, we could get on

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