Op zo, 20-08-2006 te 12:11 -0500, schreef Rich Johnson: > This I know. As I am involved with up to 5 LUGs currently, as well as the > Ubuntu Chicago LoCo which I helped establish. You can create the LoCo like we > did, and then use the LUGs and their meetings to help get you established. > Granted Ubuntu Chicago had a good outpouring from the forums, but we utilized > the LUGs to get more members. I think the LoCo's are currently the single > most important aspect of Ubuntu Marketing, as they are the ones performing > true grassroots marketing right now. Ubuntu Chicago holds it monthly > meetings, and we get out and about different areas of Chicago and hold demos, > install fests, and give speeches at local events as well. Chicago has a > population of around 3 million people, and including the suburbs we are > talking around 9.3 million people. This is the reason that LUGs and LoCo's > are important, as 1 person would never have a chance. Right now, we only have > 30 active in Chicago, but we are growing almost every day right now as we > switch more and more users over to Ubuntu.
Bruges, where I live, has a population of less than 120 000, and the whole of Belgium is about 10 million people. The fact that some of those 10M live more than 300 km away from each other makes it quite a bit more difficult to get 30 people together regularly... ;-) Anyway, something that has worked for the Belgian LoCo team is our map of "support points" (based on Google Maps), where interested people can find the nearest person willing to explain and install Ubuntu. (It didn't work perfectly, but we _did_ get some people who were completely new to linux that way.) -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
