Hi there, I'm new to this list since about 12 hours so let me just give a quick introduction and then cut straight to the chase.
My name is Tord Jansson, I'm 33 years old and live in a mid-sized Swedish town called Norrköping. CTO for a small software company by day, dedicated Ubuntu advocate by night (or mostly evenings, mornings and weekends to be precise). Two months ago I started a personal crusade to market Ubuntu in my local town and build up a strong local user base. I acknowledge this will take time and persistence and I hope to see some tangible results 2-3 years down the line with a local and very active Ubuntu-club. My first step was to create some adverts and posters to put on public noticeboards around town. So far I have made 5 different adverts/posters and of the first one I have now put up more than 200 copies in mostly building entrances. I expect to at least double that before the end of the summer. The rest of the posters are being saved for future activities. The posters are currently in Swedish only, but I have put them all in a zip-archive reachable from this URL if you want to take a look: http://www.savefile.com/files/1600643 They have all been made in Scribus and the "source code" for all except number five is reachable from this page: http://www.savefile.com/projects/808633832 Sorry about the advertisement and crap you will have to step through... Anyway, my reasons for posting this to your mailing-list are the following: 1. I believe these adverts can be useful to many more than myself once they have been translated to English. Decent marketing material for Ubuntu seems with a few exceptions to be hard to find. 2. I will need help to translate these to English. I can make a fully understandable translation myself but the text will need to be polished afterwards so it reaches the right professional marketing level. Any volunteers? 3. I need a good place to store these adverts and any future material I make. Preferably it should be a shared place where marketing material from various sources is gathered, scrutinized by a community, categorized and provided for easy download. I believe that is one of the goals with the Ubuntu-marketing team, so what are the plans and has work been started on a site like that? Is there any interim solution that is recommended? 4. I want feedback on my work (although this might be hard to give until I have translated the texts). Tell me whether you agree or disagree on the way I market Ubuntu. Is it too confrontational? too careful? too much text? too little information? focusing on the wrong things? I want my adverts to reflect the spirit of the Ubuntu community while at the same time being catchy and fun. Most of all they should just do the job of informing people of Ubuntu in a honest and interesting way. All feedback is welcome. 5. I'll be happy to discuss grass-root marketing tactics and pool resources with anyone doing the same in their local community. I understand a lot of that will happen here, right? Anyway, keep up the good work everyone. Ubuntu is a great distribution and I'm personally convinced that it just needs some more public exposure and mindshare to really take off. Regards, Tord Jansson Norrköping, Sweden -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
