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[JL Papineau]

Hi Joel . sorry it took so long to answer you email  We are 3 people 
working on  the promotion of Ubuntu at the moment and we do not have a 
steady number of people in our group but we have people calling to get 
help or to get a Ubuntu computer build or to get their present computer 
switch to Ubuntu. We have also shipped Ubuntu computer to people . We 
have sold in our area about 5 Ubuntu computer. in installed  2 copy of 
ubuntu on people that had already a computer. Our goal is to distribute 
Ubuntu and to make people know about Ubuntu. We also want to offer a 
place were people can phone or come to to get help with Ubuntu. We also 
are working on finding solution to make Ubuntu the best os . I also go 
to places and give talk about Ubuntu to people that want to know about 
it .  Were are you located in Canada

P.s this is were we are situated in Canada

We are situated in Nelson B.C










Joel Goguen wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-24-08 at 19:56 -0300, Richard Seguin wrote:
>   
>> I love it!!!!!  How many people do you have in your group? We are at a
>> slight disadvantage out here in the eastern provinces as our population
>> is a lot less and spread out more...  I have thought of designing
>> systems based on compatibility... I have also thought of the black box
>> idea where you
>> push the power button and up comes a screen... No configuration and
>> really no flexibility (great for people who only want something for web
>> surfing and email and such)... It would be money in our pockets...  The
>> geographical area around here though makes it so that idea is a bit hard.
>>
>> I guess it goes back to the post I made a few minutes ago...  WHY should
>> people use Ubuntu...  any semi-geek knows that Windows and Linux are
>> competitors... For my own efforts anyway I want to take that out of the
>> equation...
>>
>>     
> This is close to what I keep coming back to.  Our culture is so in love
> with money that when we see something totally for free, the immediate
> reaction is almost invariably "something _must_ be wrong with it".  If
> you say that nothing is wrong with it, or if you say that nothing is
> wrong but... then you'll turn people off.  If you agree with them, it
> doesn't matter what you say after that.  
>
> The other curse (or a blessing depending on your point of view) is
> choice.  People, contrary to what most F/OSS advocates say, do not
> always want lots of choices.  Some of us (like me) prefer to have lots
> of choices, but other people (like one friend of mine) want to have just
> one way of doing it that just works.
>
> Less technically literate people also want things to stay familiar.
> That's a big reason why a lot of people are staying away from Vista -
> it's not familiar to them.  I have no problem adapting to different
> interfaces on different systems (but going from Gnome to KDE to FVWM can
> throw me for a loop :)) but the biggest complaint I get from people is
> that it's not familiar.
>
> Finally, people don't like the command line.  I work for a university IT
> help desk, and all the time people call in asking for help and decide
> they would rather deal with their problem until one of us can do all
> that "DOS stuff" for them.  There's nothing they can click on to do the
> job, so it must be too hard for them.
>
> Anyway, I know a lot of that is off topic, but after that first
> paragraph I needed to say it.  At the very least, it's good things to
> keep in mind when telling people about Ubuntu, or Linux in general.
>
>   
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