<SNIP> > ==> still 80% haven't heard of Linux, even less of Ubuntu > We need more attractive marketing material, especially with contents that > non-technical people will understand. We should also write some articles > about Ubuntu and try to offer them to printed magazines. In my experience, > magazines and newspapers accept and publish material that is well written and > in a such format that makes it easy for the journalist to shorten so that it > fits between the advertisements.
Actually, in Chile, the team I work with (www.tecnocimiento.cl) is organising the EdubuntuChileanTour for any person, students and teachers. In such tour (we're planning 1 region every 2 months -we have 13 regions!), we'll have: * Edubuntu Demo (see, touch and feel) * EduContests (teachers have to think of educational contents and then put them on/create a file for it, using Edubuntu apps. of course.) * Small 'evangelisation' talks * Students get to produce artwork using Edubuntu apps. * Students play educational games included in Edubuntu. Also, we are planning to have the UbuntuFestDay, on monthly basis: * Install Fest * HowTo Fest * Contests regarding artwork and newbie/geek/admin/kack knowledge > ==> hardware certification for the Linux-kernel > All hardware manufacturers should clearly state in their marketing material if > a driver for Linux is available, and since what kernel version. They don't > need to certify for a whole distribution or LSB. Somehow we should get the > manufacturers to understand that having a penguin on their product is going > to attract all the Linux-using customers who otherwise worry about finding > supported hardware. <SNIP> On this area, I proposed wiki.ubuntu.org/UbuntuInStoreDay A day where in all around the world we go and ask stores to consider Ubuntu in the boxes they sell. We give them a CD with our biz card, we hand in leaflets and we try to go back there every 2 weeks to see what they are doing for our request. -- Cordialmente, Mauricio Hernandez Z. "Hell is repeating someone else's mistakes" (JPS) [Mail escrito sin caracteres especiales o acentos para evitar conflictos de lectura entre sistemas] [En smilar contexto, evitemos enviar archivos .doc, .ppt o .xls. Intentemos enviar solo formatos libres y mas livianos, como lo son .txt, .html, .pdf, .odt, etc.] -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
