Hello: It looks like something is happening here and that's a good thing, I live in Cocoa Beach, Florida and hope that you pick a time for the meeting that I can make it.
Just so you people know a little bit about who I am, let me say that I have been in the Computer Science trade for over twenty years and have experience both working in industry as a Software Engineer and working for my own business as one. Also as a business owner I have had to learn about sales and marketing by doing it. The LoCo Team network is a great way for users of the Ubuntu operating system to get to know other users and talk about things related to using the product. Using something and selling something are two different things, which is why Fedora (for the person that bought that up in rebuttal to my last message) has an ambassador program. I am not proposing that we copy fedora, since I like the free spirited and every one is welcome to join nature of Ubuntu. That is the way the marketing effort should be run. Business people and other veterans of the trade that run businesses, have connections in their local business communities and spend money advertising their own businesses. Which is why you want to find people like us to help market Ubuntu. What we need is information that is printed on paper, not Live CD's. If you can distribute CD's in the mail world wide to anyone that asks, then you can do the same with printed material. Short run printing of electronic data is expensive, printing by the ten's or hundreds of thousands is not. Also the printed material has a longer shelf life then the CD's which are obsolete in six months. Since our business is support, why would we tell someone to go off and do something on their own. If we give them a piece of paper that makes them want to use Ubuntu and then when they want us to install it and support then everyone wins. Peace Mike Feravolo Cocoa Beach, FL USA -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
