[Ubuntu Chicago] e-ntroduction

[RJ Marsan]

so basically our strong points are Free (as in price), Virus/Spyware
Protection, and.... oh screw it someone make a wiki page on this.

On 2/3/07, Patrick Green <patlgreen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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