I think if we could get people from all over the world to say Hi im _name_ and I am ubuntu., and do some kind of college.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Jacob F. Roecker <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All: > > So I've emailed Martin ([email protected]) and asked him to take the lead > on site design for whyubuntu.com. The DNS will take a couple of days to > populate across the net. My ISP's DNS will be the last one to do so > (Rural Oklahoma). I've been contemplating staging a video with my 7 > year old daughter--getting her to say "Hi, I'm Eliza and I'm a Ubuntu User." > > I was mulling the sentence over in my mind and want to get some feedback > on changing it to: "Hi, I'm Eliza and I am Ubuntu?" > > I think this change would be significant. Since "Ubuntu" means > "Humanity" I don't think it's an inaccurate application of the term. > This would allow consumers who've been asked to identify themselves as > either a hip "mac" or geeky "pc" for years to see a computer user that > maybe looks a little more like who they really are--not who the > marketing research says they should be. > > Since I'm new to the group I'm curious if anything like this has been > done before. I do not want to move forward in a direction that reflects > negatively upon the group identities we all perceive as reality. Since > this is an open source project, all of our perceptions should be > considered significant. I'd like to hear some of yours. > > -Jacob > > -- > ubuntu-marketing mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing > -- Random quote of the week/month/whenever i get to updating it: "Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out." - Adrienne Gusoff "At school you don't get parole, good behavior only brings a longer sentence." - The History Boys -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
