| seidos | hi | 03:06 |
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| Wolter | i guess marketers are pretty idle | 03:07 |
| rbergeron | anyone around? :) | 03:21 |
| Takyoji | Yes | 03:23 |
| rbergeron | hi :) i was wondering if anyone knows who the key person is for doing the ubuntu surveys you guys have done in the past... | 03:27 |
| * rbergeron is from the fedora-mktg team and handing mkt research and wondering about maybe doing a joint survey with some of the other distros | 03:27 | |
| Takyoji | Well, the primary contact of the Ubuntu marketing team is DPic | 03:28 |
| Takyoji | otherwise I don't know of other people in specific | 03:29 |
| Takyoji | You could also ask on #ubuntu-locoteams, which is more active, and should have someone that should know | 03:29 |
| rbergeron | cool. thank you :) | 03:30 |
| Takyoji | Otherwise this is just a community team I believe. | 03:31 |
| Takyoji | In other words, this team isn't operated by Canonical | 03:33 |
| rbergeron | right | 03:35 |
| MarkDude | How often is this channel used? | 21:37 |
| Takyoji | In regards of? | 21:40 |
| Takyoji | otherwise it's fairly quiet since nobody else seems to be willing to actually discuss much at all.. | 21:40 |
| MarkDude | brainstorming on marketing ubuntu | 21:40 |
| MarkDude | are there scheduled meetings? Or is this done with mailing lists? | 21:41 |
| Takyoji | I don't think there's any scheduled meetings currently | 21:41 |
| Takyoji | This channel just needs more regulars rather than just idlers | 21:42 |
| MarkDude | People call me an Ubuntu evangelist. I have read lots on the how to do it. | 21:42 |
| Takyoji | and also things to discuss | 21:43 |
| Takyoji | have you looked at the Spread Ubuntu effort at all? | 21:43 |
| MarkDude | 1 of my goals is to try to help make the community more diverse | 21:43 |
| Takyoji | http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ | 21:43 |
| MarkDude | yes it has great content. IMHO it is terribly organized & clunky | 21:44 |
| Takyoji | What would be some suggestions of yours for improvement? | 21:45 |
| MarkDude | My #1 solution always involves meeting in person- if at all possible | 21:46 |
| MarkDude | or i like to say - all problems can be solved with beer & BBQ | 21:46 |
| Takyoji | :P | 21:46 |
| Takyoji | In regards of the marketing team, or just in general? :P | 21:47 |
| MarkDude | mid-east crisis, the crusades, & marketing. | 21:47 |
| MarkDude | here in Norther california we are trying to organize a big party with music & more for the karmic release | 21:48 |
| Takyoji | ahh | 21:48 |
| Takyoji | The Minnesota area is pretty much inactive currently; there is one individual that coordinates an installfest for each release, but that's about it. I'm hoping to make my LoCo team more active | 21:49 |
| MarkDude | more specifically - that being a geek is not a requirement. I'm a geek but, not all of of us in the area are | 21:50 |
| Takyoji | Yea | 21:50 |
| MarkDude | Ubuntu is user friendly. We use coffee shops for promoting hands on use of open-source in general | 21:51 |
| MarkDude | I realize not everywhere has as many coffee shops as we do | 21:51 |
| Takyoji | Linutop, or? | 21:52 |
| Takyoji | or a typical desktop with an Ubuntu installation? | 21:52 |
| MarkDude | It's a little less OS specific but wikipedia's beer project has helped get some interested | 21:52 |
| Takyoji | (just curious) | 21:52 |
| MarkDude | Ubuntu mostly. We also use some fedora & I also like puppy linux | 21:53 |
| Takyoji | ahh | 21:53 |
| Takyoji | Puppy Linux just needs a little modification to be more user friendly, like to the level of Ubuntu. But yes, it is very light and versatile | 21:54 |
| MarkDude | we practice 'humanity towards other operating systems. | 21:54 |
| MarkDude | puppys developer is working on WOOF. by next year it should be compatible with ubuntus repositories | 21:55 |
| Takyoji | ahh | 21:55 |
| MarkDude | http://www.tcopencircuit.org/freegeek/ | 21:56 |
| MarkDude | have you talked to free geek | 21:56 |
| MarkDude | they started in portland & have at least 12 other grouos in north america | 21:57 |
| Takyoji | Haven't heard of them previously if I remember correctly | 21:57 |
| MarkDude | we are also trying to do the same here in norcal. | 21:57 |
| MarkDude | freegeek portland rocks - they are a great resource. I met someone from twincities there last year | 21:58 |
| Takyoji | ahh | 21:58 |
| MarkDude | I know they would be good to at least partner with | 21:58 |
| Takyoji | Apparently a few parts of their website are undermaintained it seems | 21:59 |
| Takyoji | but yea | 21:59 |
| Takyoji | I'm about an hour away from the Twin Cities | 21:59 |
| MarkDude | freegeek.org has been around since 2000 | 21:59 |
| MarkDude | might be worth an email though | 22:00 |
| Takyoji | yea | 22:00 |
| MarkDude | I am part of some local lugs | 22:00 |
| MarkDude | & a forming non-profit called gidgetkitchen.org | 22:00 |
| MarkDude | I like diversity & many users groups are mostly white dudes (like me) | 22:02 |
| Takyoji | :P | 22:02 |
| MarkDude | Hopefully some of the idlers have some ideas on creating big events. email mark [at] gidgetkitchen.org | 22:03 |
| MarkDude | do you always carry some CDs with you? | 22:03 |
| Takyoji | otherwise you're also free to talk to me via Jabber/Google Talk | 22:03 |
| Takyoji | Yes, I always carry CDs in fact. | 22:04 |
| Takyoji | I don't the official ones though; just ones I've burned on my own | 22:04 |
| MarkDude | Grantbow does the same - he thinks it represents the grassroots nature of ubnut maybe better | 22:07 |
| Takyoji | interesting Wordpress theme by the way | 22:07 |
| Takyoji | and content as well | 22:08 |
| Takyoji | Right now I'm trying to think of how to structure an afterschool group I'll be starting in about 9 days; working on the slideshow for it right now | 22:08 |
| MarkDude | thank you. | 22:09 |
| MarkDude | find allies & use a logo. | 22:10 |
| Takyoji | People interested were surveyed on what topic they'd be interested in for the group, the primary aspect was web design. I intend to additionally do a little FOSS advocacy through it as well | 22:10 |
| MarkDude | at one point i was using a picture of tux. & had the caption who the heck is tux the penguin & what the $%@# does he have to do with me? | 22:11 |
| MarkDude | it worked to create some interest | 22:11 |
| Takyoji | heh ahh | 22:11 |
| MarkDude | good luck on the slideshow. contact freegeek they can really help even if you just have reciprocal links | 22:13 |
| Takyoji | otherwise be sure to be on this channel regularly; so hopefully there can be more activity/discussion possible in this channel | 22:33 |
| MarkDude | takyoji: thanx I will try to do that. good luck on your ventures | 22:59 |
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