I like this "I Am Ubuntu" thing, would be great to see a commercial with some high profile Ubuntu users in it saying "I am Ubuntu" with a nice fade in to the Ubuntu logo and a tag line of Humanity to others, or something like that.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob F. Roecker" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 9:30:43 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: [ubuntu-marketing] "I am Ubuntu" 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 -- David Thomas IT Specialist Manager Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courts 401 Lomas NW Albuquerque, NM 87103 [email protected] 505-841-9807 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
