[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu in Retail

[Hardik Dalwadi]

On Monday 06 June 2011 06:25 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Hardik Dalwadi
> <hardik.dalwadi at ubuntu.com <mailto:hardik.dalwadi at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sunday 05 June 2011 10:23 PM, Prakash Advani wrote:
>     > Those based in Delhi, if you happen to go to  Nehru Place, do
>     check out
>     > the Asus Store.. they have Ubuntu Demo.
> 
>     @ All,
> 
>     Here is Ubuntu Certified ASUS Machines [1]
> 
>     [1]
>     http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/search?form.search_text=ASUS&search=Search
>     <http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/search?form.search_text=ASUS&search=Search>
> 
>     > My colleague Hardik did the setup for them.
>     >
>     > Any constructive feedback would be useful..
>     >
>     > On 06/02/2011 09:59 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Prakash Advani
>     <prakash at ubuntu.com <mailto:prakash at ubuntu.com>
>     >> <mailto:prakash at ubuntu.com <mailto: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
> 
> 
> 
> Since there was no clue given about which store is The ASUS store , so i
> tried my luck with at least three different places where the name of
> ASUS was mentioned ,one of them prominently only dealt in ASUS so i
> presumed this to be the  store Ubuntu folks have mentioned , this store 
> did not  have Ubuntu based Netbooks at all also he tried to lure me into
> giving discounts on Windows pieces and offered me some DOS based
> versions but No Ubuntu was available with him, there were two other
> stores which had ASUS displayed only one of them agreed and offered
> Ubuntu based Netbooks .

@ Mr. Satyaakam,

Sorry, we could not share the store address. We are talking about ASUS
Exclusive store @ Nehru Place. You can ask Sales Person to supply Eee PC
Netbook with pre-installed Ubuntu, if it is not there. Here is the address.

Eurotech Communication:-
G-3,Raja House,30-31 Nehru Place

Here is further info from tech news sites. [1], [2],

[1]
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2075819/asus-preload-ubuntu-linux-eee-pcs
[2]
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/06/03/1917243/Asus-To-Ship-Ubuntu-1010-On-Three-Eee-PC-Netbooks

> curiously found a Compaq desktop bundled with Red Flag Linux :-)
> 
> overall my experience not a good one like other Distro's in past so i
> will let this case too for rest now.
> 
> 
> -Satya
> fossevents.in <http://fossevents.in/>

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Hardik Dalwadi
person at Canonical
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