[Ubuntu Chicago] e-ntroduction

[Patrick Green]

You basically have 15 to 20 minutes to say what you wanna say.  You do not
wanna give them all...you wanna give them enough to want to know more.

You say it is an OS, you have to explain what an OS, you say it is free and
open, you have to explain what that means.  Look at the Mac ads...in under a
minute they say Mac does not have viruses, it is secure, it communicates
instantly with peripherals.  If you watch the mac ads...you insert the words
linux and everything fits.  They do not explain the license, the kernel, the
price.

I would touch on the open source part, though.  You have to.  IMHO, if Mac
is the cool kid, PC is the rich kid...Linux is likely the rebel.  The
brooding James Dean who struggles to identify with his parents (Unix and
Stallman), picked on by the cool kids (Mac), and crapped on by authority
figures (MS).  That brooding kid with the red jacket and cigarette is about
to rock your world.  ;)


On 2/3/07, Chad Sutton <chadarius at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Patrick Green wrote:
>
> Well, on a lark I called an old friend of mine.
>
> He lives in the same town I do and he owns a production company.  He
> writes, films, casts, and directs commercials and high end promotional DVD's
> (for time shares, real estate for the rich and famous.)  A 15 minute
> promotional film is usually in the neighborhood of 15-30 grand.  He is
> willing to do one for Ubuntu Chicago with his writing, editing, and actors
> at no charge.
>
> I will be sitting down with him soon to give him some info on what linux
> is, what open source is, and what makes Ubuntu special.
>
> What this would give us is a movie we could have streaming on the wiki and
> even burn onto a DVD quality disk suited for you tv at home.
>
> On 2/1/07, Patrick Green <patlgreen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I prefer benevolent monarchies as well.  ;)  Thanks for letting me know
> > who da bass is RJ.  Yeah, this winter has been cold the last few days.
> > Wherever we go needs to have hot chocolate...or whiskey.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> >
>  I'll second Rich's WOW! I'll be happy to help out in anyway I can. I
> think its key to express what the freedom in open source means in comparison
> to what Vista is ...hrm... brining to the table. But I'm not sure that
> should be the main message. We need to show that it can be easy to use and
> useful for people in just about any situation.
>
> Recently, One of the youth at my church needed to write a paper for a high
> school class. He had just built a brand new PC from parts that I helped
> advise him on. Unfortunately, it wasn't a Linux based PC. However, he had
> been listening to  my talks about open source and he knew about OpenOffice.
> He installed OpenOffice that weekend and wrote his paper without any
> problems.
>
> I've also seen some major help come to people through the live CD's and
> getting their data off of there blownup/virus/ladden/can't-boot-up-anymore
> XP machines.
>
> We could produce hours of content about situations in which Ubuntu can
> help people out in a pinch and provide all of their day to day computing
> needs. Perhaps the promo would help get our creative juices flowing. We
> could be doing all kinds of great stuff like this.
>
> It would be cool to see if we could create a DVD that had the promotional
> video on it that could be played in a DVD and could also be used to install
> Ubuntu once they have seen the Video and want to get started right away.
>
>
> --
> Later,
> Chad Sutton
> csutton at chadarius.com
> http://chadarius.com
> http://stephandchadsutton.com
>
>
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