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

[Paul Sutton]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

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.
> 
> John.

its a difficult one,  big companies can set up use ability studies etc,
 manned by paid staff perhaps they pay people to come in and use the
software.

I can arrange local meets,  and get people interested that way now I
have a netbook I can perhaps demo to people, i am reluctant to let it
out of my site and worry if someome starts to use it other than me it
will get  broken,

hopefully once the lighthouse is up and running in Paignton there can be
scope for demonstrations etc,

Paul






- --
Paul Sutton
www.zleap.net

Ubuntu 9.10 is out : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details
DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/drupal6,  - please click
on Group meetings link on right hand side
Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you,  please goto http://www.dfey.org
for more details
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAktpaRcACgkQaggq1k2FJq3GqwCeLlCWB8XiNcQ/9CoKTqQK03z6
1BgAn1wwoCG7IAOpQLA2Rwm4ttYfpP5C
=58L2
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----