<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Alberto,</div><div><br></div><div>I'll try to defend my point and express my views, the views might seem too radical and off the topic but are based and formulated on my first hand experience so I request you to read on.</div><div><br></div>I believe one of the reason that ubuntu is not the first choice for age group 13-17 is that it lacks eye candy, installing the 3d effects and all other fancy things is not so easy in ubuntu unlike windows.<div><br></div><div>And targeting the younger people is important because they don't usually have deadlines to meat, they don't have any special preference or liking to any OS or Desktop environment, while once they grow up they have less time to learn whole new OS and are more focused on getting things done.</div><div><br></div><div>I was a windows user for 7 years and have been using Ubnutu full time for past 3 years and from my own experience I can tell how frustrating it was to get things done and fixing issues because of no prior experience in Linux, I was able to bear all that because I had support from other users in my college.</div><div><br></div><div>But unfortunately everyone is not lucky enough to have such support group and perseverance to change later on. So the point I am trying to make here is users at an early age need eye candy to be lured into using an unknown OS and are only able to experience the true power of linux once they have matured.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, that Internet has penetrated enough in the Countries Like India (My Country), people need to be aware of the alternatives, alternatives to the pirated versions of Paid softwares or pirated copies of windows. In India the younger generation drives the technology market, younger ones are the people that make things hit or flop.</div><div><br></div><div>So we need to target them and to target them we need to have some eye candy, the Desktop Effects package has little to no productivity boost for on experienced user but is incentive big enough to at least try and use ubuntu.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:es20490446e@gmail.com" target="_blank">es20490446e@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Gaurav Shukla:<span class=""><br>
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I want an outreach task to be spread over 2 weeks but the form allows a<br>
maximum time of 7 days<br>
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Remember that the goal is to showcase some teenagers how real life looks like, rather than them working for us. So for that it is more important task to be diverse and short.<br>
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Gaurav Shukla:<br>
> Should I add a task to list out steps for installing Desktop Effects<span class=""><br>
> or a task to update the documentation to point to the newer alternate<br>
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Would be installing "Desktop Effects" useful?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards !<div>Gaurav Shukla</div><div><a href="http://gauravshukla.xyz" target="_blank">gauravshukla.xyz</a></div><div>Phone: +91-837-584-7862</div></div></div>
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