| thinkgeek | Hello? | 07:10 |
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| Burgundavia | thinkgeek: hello | 07:20 |
| smartmass | anybody here? | 07:28 |
| smartmass | hello | 07:29 |
| smartmass | previously was ThinkGeek | 07:29 |
| smartmass | is this a grassroots IRC channel for the promotion of Ubuntu? | 07:29 |
| Burgundavia | yes | 07:30 |
| smartmass | I see. that's great. | 07:30 |
| smartmass | I wanted to see about promoting Ubuntu to our customers. | 07:31 |
| Burgundavia | sounds good | 07:31 |
| smartmass | I co-founded ThinkGeek | 07:31 |
| Burgundavia | ahh | 07:31 |
| smartmass | and I think our customers would respond | 07:31 |
| smartmass | not looking for a payout or anything. | 07:31 |
| Burgundavia | what ideas had you been kicking around? | 07:32 |
| smartmass | We send out monthly newsletters to tons of folks. I was thinking it would be great exposure to mention ubuntu and then give folks a chance to get a free distro. | 07:32 |
| Burgundavia | ahh | 07:32 |
| smartmass | do u get this all the time? | 07:33 |
| Burgundavia | so you were thinking of a contest? | 07:33 |
| smartmass | nah. | 07:33 |
| Burgundavia | aren't most of your customers already aware of Linux in general? | 07:33 |
| smartmass | Just sheer 'Hey! if you've been living in a forest for the past year, you probably don't know about Ubuntu' | 07:33 |
| smartmass | they used to be. | 07:33 |
| Burgundavia | used to be? | 07:34 |
| smartmass | we have more Windows folks now. | 07:34 |
| smartmass | because we have grown so much, our niche market has grown into something more mainstream. | 07:34 |
| Burgundavia | right | 07:34 |
| smartmass | I'm using windows. | 07:35 |
| Burgundavia | are you looking for a short "what is Ubuntu" thing to put into your newsletter? | 07:35 |
| smartmass | I used to use Linux. but switched like 3 years ago | 07:35 |
| smartmass | Lemme give you an example of our newsletter. 1 sec. | 07:36 |
| smartmass | http://www.thinkgeek.com/edm/20060719.shtml | 07:38 |
| smartmass | so in the 'whats news' section. we would just have an image, then a bunch of text and talk about Ubuntu | 07:38 |
| smartmass | and my hope is we can give away some distributions. | 07:39 |
| smartmass | I'm not trying to be sketchy here. | 07:39 |
| Burgundavia | well, the best way is probably to contact the shipit people at Canonical and explain that you are after CDs | 07:40 |
| smartmass | It's a personal thing. | 07:40 |
| smartmass | I want more folks to embrace the Linux thing, and I think I can help because of my position here. | 07:41 |
| Burgundavia | ahh | 07:41 |
| smartmass | and I really like the Ubuntu approach. | 07:41 |
| Burgundavia | well, you could order some cds from shipit | 07:41 |
| Burgundavia | throw them in every 100th order or something | 07:41 |
| Burgundavia | bonus gift | 07:41 |
| smartmass | so? what is the relation? | 07:41 |
| Burgundavia | Canonical is the company that sponsors most of the Ubuntu Dev work | 07:42 |
| smartmass | ubuntu --> shipit --> canonical? | 07:42 |
| Burgundavia | they also sponsor shipit, which is a program to give out free cds | 07:42 |
| smartmass | hehe. that was me. | 07:42 |
| smartmass | Are you a developer, or a supporter? | 07:43 |
| smartmass | or both or neither? | 07:43 |
| Burgundavia | I do a bunch of stuff | 07:44 |
| Burgundavia | wiki.ubuntu.com/CoreyBurger | 07:44 |
| smartmass | woah. cool. | 07:44 |
| smartmass | so do you think it's a good idea or not? | 07:45 |
| smartmass | or are you skeptical about it? | 07:45 |
| desertc | Maybe throw a brochure regarding Ubuntu into every Think Geek package? | 07:45 |
| Burgundavia | or a copy of the cd in every shipment in Dec or something | 07:46 |
| desertc | This would certainly help get the word out there. | 07:46 |
| smartmass | http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?c=1&f=555555&u=ubuntu.com&u=thinkgeek.com&r=6m&y=r&z=3&h=400&w=700 | 07:46 |
| smartmass | not sure how accurate alexa is though. | 07:47 |
| Burgundavia | smartmass: email shipit and suggest something | 07:47 |
| smartmass | ok. | 07:47 |
| Burgundavia | alexa requires a plugin that only works in IE, at least last time I tried | 07:47 |
| smartmass | yeah. ok. | 07:47 |
| smartmass | do you have a specific contact? or should i just try generic? | 07:48 |
| desertc | Burgundavia is an authoritative contact... | 07:50 |
| Burgundavia | not reall | 07:50 |
| Burgundavia | really, just been around a while | 07:50 |
| elkbuntu | thinkgeek dude?! niiiice | 12:58 |
| * elkbuntu knows she's like 5 hours late on that, but still, niiiice | 12:59 | |
| * jenda waves at Burgundavia and elkbuntu | 14:17 | |
| jenda | wow, two hours ago, nevermind, then : | 14:18 |
| jenda | :) | 14:18 |
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