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[Paul Greindl <paul.greindl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I'll soon continue my work with promoting Linux at my school, though all 
the students laptops are running Windows 7 (we get all that equipment 
from the school). For me that doesn't really make any difference to XP 
as it is slow as hell compared to even standard Ubuntu (with Unity). I 
hope this is not a problem for the scope of this project as I see the 
general goal is to get linux out to all the windows users. But of course 
the focus is on XP as support is ending.

I was thinking about some stuff needed to get in contact with people and 
make them interested, namly some kind of poster etc. So I'll start 
working on marketing material which can be printed and spread. I also 
think that the most effective way to engage, in my case, younger people 
currently not knowing anything about how computers work, is to create 
some kind of event where you can tell about differences, advantages and 
then help people install a new Linux OS (of their choice). Put simply: 
direct confrontation ;)

What do you think? Any tips and help is appreciated! What would be the 
best way of tackling real world confrontation with Windows users in 
order to convince them to try linux?

I'll be thinking about solutions and start preparing some kind of 
program for a new-to-linux event. Again, help and ideas appreciated!

Note that I'm not doing any events or that for now, I'm just in the 
phase of figuring out how to best prepare and realize them!

Thanks!

Paul

On 24.09.2013 17:30, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
> Hi StartUbuntu Team :)
>
> With the introductory email, I have asked each one of those who 
> replied to actually help with spreading the word by posting, writing, 
> sharing, etc about StartUbuntu Project.
>
> Mission is quite easy and it is not hard at all:
>
> 1- This is the Wiki Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartUbuntu
> 2- This is what we can do: 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartUbuntu/Activities#Introduction
> 3- To make it simple and short: if you have any kind of sites (Social 
> Media, Blog, Website, etc) then PLEASE, write something about this 
> project and publish/share it :)
>
> That is all :)
>
> You do not need to translate the whole page, NO, please do not do that 
> for now. Let's KISS (Keep It Simple and Short) so that we can be 
> direct to the point with less efforts. I do understand that each one 
> of us is actually busy with something else. So, we need to be 
> reasonable and take it easy but work hard to our target.
>
> I have seen SO many people with different languages. We are not more 
> than 40 members!!!
> However, I have not seen anything yet from you :(
>
> I want to READ so show me what you got :D
>
> This is not for me, this is for the Project and this is NOT for the 
> Project, this is for Linux and that is our goal and target, to spread 
> the word of Linux and it happened that we do have some tools, these 
> are Ubuntu and its official variants ;)
>
> Thank you!
>
> P.S.
> WHO IS IN? :D
>
> P.S. 2
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartUbuntu/Artwork
> FEEL FREE to use ANY wallpaper/artwork inside the above link ;)
>
> --
> Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
> Best Regards,
> amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
> Areas of Involvement <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/AreasOfInvolvement>
> My Projects <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/Projects>