[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu in Retail

[James Sebastian]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Narendra Sisodiya
> <narendra at narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Prakash Advani <prakash at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> As a follow up to our Ubuntu in Retail, I have been asked by a store in
> >> Nehru Place, Delhi if we can showcase Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> Here is my thoughts, let me know what you guys think.
> >>
> >> Have 1-2 community members at the store to demo Ubuntu.
> >> Have them wear Ubuntu T-Shirts so people perceive it to be professional.
> >> Offer basic installation for free and charge for additional services.
> This
> >> should compare with other services in Nehru Place, where I believe you
> can
> >> go to a store and they will fill your hard drive with all windows
> software
> >> :)
> >> If the customer wants training then this can be offered at their home at
> a
> >> fee.
> >>
> >> I am thinking we should offer similar services to what people are used
> to
> >> in the Windows world, I know this may not sound very comforting for some
> of
> >> us, but thats what people are used to ;-)
> >
> > Ubuntu cannot get success (in India) without the project like DebBundle
>
> Ubuntu seems to be one of the most popular linux distros in India.
> It's funny how Ubuntu didn't need DebBundle to gain that popularity.
>
> I do not know much about DebBundle. I just checked what it tries to
achieve. I agree with Narendra
Ubuntu is the most popular linux distro in India.
But this is not the level of popularity we should be satisfied with !
It should be talking like 10-20% of market share of OS, availability at
every nook and corner of the country  and ability to get installed and
supported  by an average hardware vendor in India.

Now dependency on internet and difficulty in learning curve to use solutions
like apt-on-cd makes it difficult.

Regards,
James
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