[Ubuntu-SG] Hi all ubuntu fans

[John Thng]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Rui Boon <ruiboon at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Rykel™ (Aen™) wrote:
> | Or they can employ us on a exhibition-basis instead of their salesmen!  :
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> | I second the "The Idiot's Guide To Selling Ubuntu Laptops" idea.
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> I have spoke to #ubuntu-marketing, and  said that it is a great project. I
> have also submitted it to brainstorm [0], currently with 19 votes.
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> Shall we adopt this as a loco project?
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> Materials are readily available online. [1] Seems to be a good template,
> that we can work on.
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> [0] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9831/
> [1]
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKMarketing/Leaflets?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=leaflet_hadenough_beta.pdf
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> Cheers
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> Rui Boon
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> Ya, another thing is that the leaflets don't even put Ubuntu even if they
say Linux.
Yes, it comes with Linux, but never state as "Ubuntu Linux", this is the
case of Acer Computers bacvk when I saw in Sim Lim Square, in which they
mentioned "Linux" generally instead of "Linpus Linux", I think I heard some
even say linux is like ms-dos or what. Other than salesman, those doing
marketing and design leaflets, should be educated also. If anyone try ask
any of the sellers linux, I think they will know nuts about it.

I think to sell more, the laptops/umpcs nowadays should be cheap and good.
They only promote the cheapness but not the goodness.

It is good to see if we can get the guide concise, it'll be good.

I know for consumers, they want to get things up pretty fast and do not want
to go from beginning of maze to the end.

My slogan currently: do less, produce more :)

Some tutorials online to start off with is pretty intensive, especially for
getting all the codecs and also sun java plugin to work.

Possible to have an accompanying quick start guide to be distributed for
every laptop with ubuntu sold? If there's a GUI to the guide posted in
forums, it'll be good. Or else, people might buy linux laptop because of the
cost, and then without really using it, remove it away.

I know ubuntu cannot put proprietary codecs or proprietary java in, but it's
greatly used here, and we should bridge it ...??? Ubuntu will be better in
release schedule and also better in support frame than those like Linux Mint
globally.

Another example, msn with web cam? Since many have msn locally, and some
even use web cam. How do they know amsn can? I don't think the answer pop
straight out suddenly if they never heard of it. A local Singapore context
of quick start guide might be needed to cater the mass. And perhaps Skype
too ...

One of the problem people face, is that, they do not know where to find
help. Where is the best place, and some do not know how to search well.

For drivers I can omit, since the laptops comes with ubuntu pre-installed,
the drivers issues should have settled.

Btw, side questions, where can I get powered by ubuntu stickers now?
And also is the NUS mirror back to normal already? Because I get a bit
upset, when I get high speed download, but it break connection frequently
last time ... If yes, we should advise users to change ...

And another question, do we need to refresh and revive the site?
It's a bit outdated atm and dapper I don't use dapper before.

I recommend the  Hello and welcome to Ubuntu.sg <http://ubuntu.sg/?p=1> to
be put in the heading news before first news always.

On the wiki, I'm trying to see the group in singapore and i visited irc,
there's no one there.
#ubuntu-sg

And is it time to update to irc.ubuntu.com? The pidgin in ubuntu has
defaulted to irc.ubuntu.com , although it's still freenode, but it would be
more appropriate and easier.
Since nowadays people are lazy or dunno irc, maybe a simple guide for
joining irc in pidgin :)

Last question, I'm not sure if ubuntu stuff will be present in this year's
Software Freedom Day.

Sorry a bit long the email, and I don't know if some of the points have been
repeated or not, if so, sorry, and thanks for reading.

Regards
John
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