[Ubuntu-SG] How to promote Ubuntu in Singapore?

[Gaurav Vaidya]

Hey everybody,

2009/11/10 suhaw koh <kohsuhaw at gmail.com>:
> As a volunteer group, we cannot hope to come close to matching the
> commercial companies with regards monetary resources.  But what we have is
> passion and if we can pool effectively time and effort.  If each of us can
> spare 2 to 4 hours each week, think of the total number of man-hours we will
> have at our disposal.
Going off on a slight tangent: one activity which has had a massive
impact on both cohesion within the Perl community and in marketing
Perl to the world at large has been the Perl Iron Man Competition [1].
It's just a "get together" of Perl blogs, with a major publicity push
within the community to get members who wouldn't otherwise think they
had anything important to say to start blogs. Iron Man now has posts
in multiple languages, ranges from discussions about new language
features and progress reports on large open-source Perl projects to
beginners blogging their first footsteps in the language.

Best of all, there's now a concentrated core of members who are
available for ad-hoc projects, helping improve Perl's core websites,
or any other maintenance tasks. For instance: I'm helping to write a
specification for the Test Anything Protocol; once that's done, I can
get a lot of Perl eyeballs to vet, correct and improve it without too
much effort.

I wonder if something like that would be helpful for Ubuntu in
Singapore? We've got http://planetlugs.kernel.sg/, but this would be
Ubuntu-specific, and be accompanied by a big push (on SLUGnet,
LinuxNUS and others) to pull in Ubuntu users to write about their
Ubuntu experience in Singapore. The trick, I think, would be to reach
all those people who've kept away from Team Ubuntu because "I'm just a
user, not a coder like you all - what could I possibly contribute to
Ubuntu?". If you can get two or three prolific bloggers going, you'll
have an awesome marketing machine going.

cheers,
Gaurav

[1] http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/