Getting the media interested in Ubuntu....

[Russell McOrmond]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Arthur Amendt wrote:

> Even CTV doesn't show much interest in Ubuntu yet. Kris Abel has
> only written one article.  I keep wonder if I should invest more money in
> advertising, but most people don't know what an Operating System is. 

   Did we as a community send all the Canadian media press releases about 
the new Ubuntu release?  Do we send nicely worded letters to the editor, 
etc?

   There isn't currently a lot of Canadian money coming into Canonical from 
what I understand, so this isn't likely seen as a primary market.   This 
leaves this to the community to help get more people into the community.

   The media will write about whatever it thinks the public wants to hear 
about.  Spin a story for them that will get their interest.  I tend to 
write things about legally free software every time there is a silly 
article about software "piracy" and the alleged (and largely non-existant) 
harm to "the" industry.

Note: Even the Mac vs PC stuff bores most people.  On the other hand (held 
-- sorry for the pun), if you want to talk iPhone, Palm, Crackberry or the 
Droid you are looking for -- then there is interest.  Desktop operating 
systems are so 90's.

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