[ubuntu-uk] New users - asking them about Ubuntu Magazine

[Matthew Revell]

On 28/07/06, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> > Almost all of us come into contact with new users. If the marketing
> > team puts a few easy questions together, would you be able to help us
> > to get some new users to answer them?
> >
>
> What level of users? People "interested in ubuntu" or people who just plain
> use it as a tool?

The Ubuntu magazine people are fairly vague on that. I'd imagine new
users who want to learn more about Ubuntu as a tool, but aren't
necessarily interested in FOSS or the commuinity.

> My brother and my wife are "users" of Ubuntu. They know nothing about the
> inner workings, to them it's basically an appliance. Is that the kind of
> target?

Yeah, sounds about right to me.

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Matthew Revell
www.understated.co.uk