On 22/09/11 11:14, Simon Greenwood wrote: > On 22 September 2011 10:50, alan c <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 22/09/11 09:47, Paul Sutton wrote: >> > We would have to do a lot of awareness raising and support things like >> > install days to get round things like this. as the borg say "we will >> > adapt" >> >> The FLOSS world's lack of competence, or even appetite, for publicity >> or marketing is the elephant in the room. >> >> 1) FLOSS, GNU/Linux etc, 'marketing' is pretty well non existent >> compared to non free products. 'I advertise, therefore I exist' >> (apologies to Descartes). >> >> 2) Of all things, marketing is -very- unsuited to the free libre, >> distributed model. >> >> > Marketing, maybe, promotion not. I would argue that that is pretty much why > Ubuntu exists, to create a user-friendly Linux and to encourage its use.
Community was the single most important reason why I personally started to use Ubuntu. This is almost a word of mouth thing. Person direct to person. I am not saying we cannot do anything at all, just that evidence suggests that we are not going to win with ONLY existing strategies. Promotion: how is marketing different from promotion? Do microsoft have a marketing department and a promotion department? Our lack of experience in these matters is painful. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
