The 100.000 dollars aside, I don't think it's a bad idea, we have been talked about it before.
Isn't there any incentive we can give that doesn't involve money? We can get the winner on Ubuntu's main site, what else can we do? 2010/8/21 Martin Owens <[email protected]> > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 09:25 -0400, Mike Feravolo wrote: > > If all you want to do hear is debate what "Free and Open Source > > Software" or "Software Freedom" is all about, then change the name to > > the "Debate Team". We thought the objective here is to promote Ubuntu > > a > > superior software product. > > *shrug* Is it? I don't think it is a better software product, although > it's nice to see we have plainly corporate marketing companies here with > money to throw away. > > We were attempting to set an appropriate level and timing of making sure > that what we actually have to offer in marketed and not just the very > small and uneconomical charity subset favored here. > > > An idea to consider for a contest is to do something that will > > attract > > people from that make videos from everywhere to produce a video that > > would sell Ubuntu to the general public. For example: A prize of at > > least $100,000 US on the line, (winner takes all) will both get every > > video freelancer on earth to produce an entry and attract lots media > > attention. > > Do you have $100,000 to set up such a competition? > > Martin, > > > -- > ubuntu-marketing mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing > -- Lisandro H. Vaccaro
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