[ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?....Just another thought....

[Liam Wilson]

That's also one of the aims of the ubuntu viral videos project - to give
help to the new users.

Regards

Liam

On 3 February 2010 10:55, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 10:24 +0000, Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
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> > John Matthews wrote:
> > > I am getting excited and worked up with the rest of you about the
> > > impending rush on  advertising Ubuntu to get more people to use it,
> plus
> > > the courses that are being set up, but I seem to remember getting my
> > > little netbook, with Linux Lite on it, that was sold by one of the
> large
> > > electronics companies on the high street. The guy there said to me, you
> > > know you will bring it back dont you. Everybody else has, they cant
> > > connect to their internet. I heard a lot about Linux computers being
> > > taken back because people couldnt work out how to use them, the  shops
> > > didnt even ask what was up in the end, they just  credited them.  That
> > > was last year.
> > >
> > > Has anybody thought about how they are going to make it so that it can
> > > be easier to set the machine up, when its first opened? Plus, has
> > > anybody thought, who and how if there is an increase in Linux users, a
> > > help format is going to be set up, so that people can get immediate
> > > help, if needed, because it will be immediate help that people will
> > > want, not sometime later, but there and then, they wont wait, and its
> no
> > > good saying, 'those of us who are on these forums and e-mail groups
> have
> > > other jobs and we do this for nothing, that wont be good enough'.
> people
> > > wont accept that. You could be doing Ubuntu a world of good, with all
> > > this new advertising and enthusiasm, but you could ruin it for good, if
> > > there is no sufficient help after sales.
> > >
> > > Just a thought.
> > >
> >
> > Should we create a helper program, with a launcher on the desktop, (or
> > favourites list in UNR) which offers to guide users through the basics
> > of getting their system online, and then getting help from the ubuntu
> > community?
> >
> > It would have to be quite comprehensive to deal with the UK standard
> > types of internet connectivity, wifi keys, ethernet cable, adsl modem,
> etc..
>
> What about contributing to the Ubuntu manual project [1] to help it make
> it into Lucid?
>
> There's also an interview of Ben Humphrey who is behind this initiative
> in the latest newsletter [2]
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue178
>
> Bruno
>
>
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