Wow. I was getting all excited reading the press release, but then I actually followed the link. I don't know that a tee of Tux peeing on the Windows butterfly (for example) is the kind of PR the Linux community is lacking.
Check it out for yourselves. -CMP On 8/22/05, Kevin Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Forwarded message from Jason Bechtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:01:57 +0000 > From: Jason Bechtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: TALUG Main List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > TALUG Murch List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Subject: TALUG: Announcing a New Online Store for Tux T-shirts > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <-------- TALUG Info: http://www.talug.org --------> > > > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > > Contact: > > Tux Delux LLC > c/o Michael McSteen > 175 Second Street > Athens, Ohio 45701 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Announcing a New Online Store for Tux T-shirts > > Still waiting to get that fabulous Tux t-shirt? Wait no more. Now you can > get > a Tux T-shirt and help out the Linux community! Introducing TuxDelux > ( http://tuxdelux.com ), a new online store solely devoted to marketing > and > promoting Tux the Penguin. > > The brainchild of two Linux enthusiasts, Bryan Dumm and Michael McSteen, > TuxDelux is an effort to increase public awareness of Linux by shamelessly > marketing and promoting Tux the Penguin, the adopted mascot of the Linux > community. > > "We don't see Tux as much as we should. We don't see it on the street, in > the > stores or in any media." said Dumm. "We want to change that." > > The two originally thought of the idea for Tux Delux while attending a > recent > conference. They saw a lot of logos and icons promoting individual > software programs and corporations, but nothing promoting the Linux. > "Mike and I always talk about the need for 'Place' (one of the four P's of > marketing) for Linux. The same holds true for 'Promotion'," Dumm > explained. > > Both Dumm and McSteen think one of the best ways to introduce the public > to > Linux is by introducing them to Tux the Penguin. They hope that the more > the > Linux community promotes Tux, the more the general public will be curious > about Linux. "We want people to ask, 'hey, what's up with the penguin?' We > want to peak people's curiosity about Tux and Linux," McSteen stated. > > "We think Tux is a fantastic image and that the Linux community needs to > rally > around him to market and promote Linux," Dumm added. > > Tuxdelux.com <http://Tuxdelux.com> currently offers eight different Tux > designs, including the > original. The company plans to introduce several new designs over the next > couple of months. > > Visit tuxdelux.com <http://tuxdelux.com> to find out more. If you have any > questions, please contact > Michael McSteen at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > talug mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bridge.uniqsys.com/mailman/listinfo/talug > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Kevin Otte, N8VNR > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.nivex.net/ > > -=- > > "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." > -- George Santayana > > "It seems no one reads Santayana anymore." > -- Cdr. Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5 > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Cristobal M. Palmer UNC-CH SILS Student [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer <http://ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer> "Television-free since 2003" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
