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

[alan c]

Paul Sutton wrote:
> 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,


Be aware that the recent 'Hour Ubuntu' initiative looks like it will
be good for local effort event/s, with a lower investment than a LUG,
and fully Ubuntu centric, and also without the need to make
arrangements for a meeting room.
alan (Bracknell)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour

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alan cocks
Ubuntu user