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[Joel Goguen]

I'm in Fredericton, NB, way on the other side of the country :)  I like
the idea of what you're doing, I'd be interested in some examples of
where you would go to speak, how you would get around people who may not
like Linux, and even some of your presentation materials.  There's some
good stuff in the examples directory, but it's always nice to see what
someone else has done too.


On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 13:38 -0700, JL Papineau wrote:
> Hi Joel . sorry it took so long to answer you email  We are 3 people
> working on  the promotion of Ubuntu at the moment and we do not have a
> steady number of people in our group but we have people calling to get
> help or to get a Ubuntu computer build or to get their present
> computer switch to Ubuntu. We have also shipped Ubuntu computer to
> people . We have sold in our area about 5 Ubuntu computer. in
> installed  2 copy of ubuntu on people that had already a computer. Our
> goal is to distribute Ubuntu and to make people know about Ubuntu. We
> also want to offer a place were people can phone or come to to get
> help with Ubuntu. We also are working on finding solution to make
> Ubuntu the best os . I also go to places and give talk about Ubuntu to
> people that want to know about it .  Were are you located in Canada
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> P.s this is were we are situated in Canada
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> We are situated in Nelson B.C
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> Joel Goguen wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2007-24-08 at 19:56 -0300, Richard Seguin wrote:
> >   
> > > I love it!!!!!  How many people do you have in your group? We are at a
> > > slight disadvantage out here in the eastern provinces as our population
> > > is a lot less and spread out more...  I have thought of designing
> > > systems based on compatibility... I have also thought of the black box
> > > idea where you
> > > push the power button and up comes a screen... No configuration and
> > > really no flexibility (great for people who only want something for web
> > > surfing and email and such)... It would be money in our pockets...  The
> > > geographical area around here though makes it so that idea is a bit hard.
> > > 
> > > I guess it goes back to the post I made a few minutes ago...  WHY should
> > > people use Ubuntu...  any semi-geek knows that Windows and Linux are
> > > competitors... For my own efforts anyway I want to take that out of the
> > > equation...
> > > 
> > >     
> > This is close to what I keep coming back to.  Our culture is so in love
> > with money that when we see something totally for free, the immediate
> > reaction is almost invariably "something _must_ be wrong with it".  If
> > you say that nothing is wrong with it, or if you say that nothing is
> > wrong but... then you'll turn people off.  If you agree with them, it
> > doesn't matter what you say after that.  
> > 
> > The other curse (or a blessing depending on your point of view) is
> > choice.  People, contrary to what most F/OSS advocates say, do not
> > always want lots of choices.  Some of us (like me) prefer to have lots
> > of choices, but other people (like one friend of mine) want to have just
> > one way of doing it that just works.
> > 
> > Less technically literate people also want things to stay familiar.
> > That's a big reason why a lot of people are staying away from Vista -
> > it's not familiar to them.  I have no problem adapting to different
> > interfaces on different systems (but going from Gnome to KDE to FVWM can
> > throw me for a loop :)) but the biggest complaint I get from people is
> > that it's not familiar.
> > 
> > Finally, people don't like the command line.  I work for a university IT
> > help desk, and all the time people call in asking for help and decide
> > they would rather deal with their problem until one of us can do all
> > that "DOS stuff" for them.  There's nothing they can click on to do the
> > job, so it must be too hard for them.
> > 
> > Anyway, I know a lot of that is off topic, but after that first
> > paragraph I needed to say it.  At the very least, it's good things to
> > keep in mind when telling people about Ubuntu, or Linux in general.
> >   

-- 
Joel Goguen
http://jgoguen.net/
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange
protein -- it rejects it.  -- P. Medawar
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