[ubuntu-us-ma] Promoting Ubuntu

[Martin Owens]

Hey Rami,

It's good to hear from you again. And what an excellent blog post to
point us towards. Thanks for sharing.

Are you interested in coming into Boston at the end of the month to talk
about marketing, twiter, identi.ca, facebook, digg and all that other
stuff? Dpic is currently making sure that all our news gets out to those
mediums maybe he'd like to be involved in a discussion.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 04:39 -0400, Rami Taibah wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Sorry I never introduced myself, I am Rami originally from Saudi
> Arabia but in Boston now (well in Saudi now for vacation, coming back
> in a week, but you get the idea.) I have met Martin and the guys at
> the Star Trek IMAX meetup, sadly I was late and ended up watching it
> alone.
> 
> Anyways, I have been reading this thread and it really caught my
> attention, and would really love to help. I am good with marketing and
> social media (especially Digg and Twitter.) 
> 
> I am not sure if you guys are aware of this, but have you ever heard
> of the Extremadura province in Spain and their exploits in with Linux?
> They completely migrated to FOSS in their schools and governments. I
> actually did an interview with one of their lead devs, and published
> it on my blog. It is a really interesting read. We should take these
> guys learnings and see if we can apply them here. 
> 
> http://linuxologist.com/general/an-interview-with-an-extremadura-developer-bringing-linux-to-the-masses/
> 
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> 
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Bill Simonds <wtsimonds at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Whew...that's a lot of stuff to take in. It might take me a
>         few to go
>         through it all. I will use this opportunity to forward an
>         email I got
>         from Sun on a web seminar they offer on migrating
>         organizations to OO.
>         See next post. As for giving a laptop to politicians, I hadn't
>         given
>         it much thought. I suppose you get ahold of one of their
>         people and
>         tell them what you're doing, and why, and see if one or more
>         of those
>         politicians will follow through with exploring the issue.
>         
>         
>         On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Yuriy Kozlov
>         <yuriy.kozlov at gmail.com> wrote:
>         > Interesting idea, how would you go about giving him the
>         laptop?
>         >
>         > Getting all government workers using free software is
>         difficult.  It's
>         > been tried - we almost moved to OpenDocument in MA.  Every
>         case must
>         > be taken care of for accessibility:
>         >
>         http://blogs.sun.com/korn/entry/massachusetts_open_document_and_accessibility
>         >
>         > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Bill Simonds
>         <wtsimonds at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >> I am trying to think up ways to promote Ubuntu. Here's a
>         suggestion:
>         >> With both Federal government and state governments going
>         broke, and
>         >> desperate to save money any way they can, it seems like
>         free software
>         >> has the potential to save the govenment millions
>         (billions?) of
>         >> dollars a year.
>         >>
>         >> There are, collectively, millions of desktop computers in
>         the
>         >> government offices, all of which could be using Ubuntu. So
>         why aren't
>         >> they?
>         >>
>         >> How 'bout this: set up a laptop with Ubuntu, and give it to
>         governor
>         >> of Massachusetts Deval Patrick to use for a month. Convince
>         him that
>         >> it can do anything Windows can do, better and millions of
>         dollars
>         >> cheaper! We could work on switching a state over to free
>         software as
>         >> an experiment to see if it could work for the Federal
>         gov't.
>         >>
>         >> If we could get the gov't to make the switch, it would do
>         much to
>         >> raise awareness of Ubuntu. It would also help to ally fears
>         that
>         >> Ubuntu is just for geeks and the technically inclined. Once
>         people see
>         >> government workers mastering the software, they'll realize
>         it must be
>         >> an easy transition!
>         >>
>         >> I will venture a guess that Ubuntu will do anything windows
>         can do,
>         >> and if there are any gaps they can be addressed by
>         Canonical, etc.
>         >>
>         >> It might even present an opportuntiy to some enterprising
>         person(s)
>         >> because of all the labor that needs to be contracted out to
>         make the
>         >> switch. Somebody has to go into these offices and install
>         all the
>         >> software, provide training, and do after the switch service
>         and
>         >> technical support. Big job for somebody.
>         >>
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