[ubuntu-uk] Spread Ubuntu today

[Rob Beard]

On 29/04/10 09:46, John Stevenson wrote:
> On 29 April 2010 09:34, simon bennie
> <simon.bennie at student.manchester.ac.uk
> <mailto:simon.bennie at student.manchester.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi guys i've decided to spend a half hour
>     today politely emailing news outlets and tech websites/shows trying
>     to conince them to give a full reveiew of the new Ubuntu. i got the
>     idea from the forums.
>
>     I think it would all be great if we could do this.
>
>     So far i have emailed:
>
>     click online: click at bbc.co.uk <mailto:click at bbc.co.uk>
>     the gadget show :gadget.show at northonetv.com
>     <mailto:gadget.show at northonetv.com>
>     engadget: look at the right hand side of the site for the red tip us
>     link.
>
>     I'm also planning to spread the news on my facebook account.
>
>     If any of you have any other ideas who to email please let me know.
>
>     And happy lucid day to you all.
>
>
> This is a greate idea, how about contacting theregister.co.uk
> <http://theregister.co.uk> ?
>
>

Yep, I think it's a good idea, The Register already did an article about 
Ubuntu the other day...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/27/ubuntu_10_04_mac_windows/

Only issue I can see is if news sites are doing something about it for 
instance, this morning and people head over to the Ubuntu site they'll 
see that 9.10 is still the default (unless they choose 10.04 RC).  I 
sometimes wonder if they're better off releasing it at 12am?

Personally I'm happy to wait, but I know it's been brought up on the 
list before about the release not actually happening until later on in 
the day.

Rob