Re: Guerilla Marketing GNOME

[Erik Snoeijs <stratos stratos-online nl>]

I'm not sure about this.

It might raise awareness in some form, but i doubt it will raise our
image. Not sure why. (not being sarcastic)

What i was thinking about when i read (both) your posts was a sort of
mini software freedom day. But more like a local GNOME demonstration
day.

If you can organise with a IT store that your allowed to stand in his
store to give a demonstration of a nice looking OS on one of the
computers he is trying to sell.
It would be more of a symbiosis, he get's free demonstration of his
machines, while we get a free place to show off GNOME.

The down side is that this takes more work then burning live-cd's and
hijacking display pc's.



On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 17:54 +0100, David Neary wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
>
> It's a great idea, and I like it in an alter-mondialist kind of way, but 
> you'll probably be infringing on contracts that the IT store has with 
> providers, and might get in trouble; I did want to point out one thing 
> you said:
>
> Marcus Bauer wrote:
> > Keep in mind the stores want to sell/make business and it is just
> > amazing that they forget about potential linux-using customers.
>
> It's not amazing at all. Part of *our* problem is unwillingness to let 
> go of marginal markets (for us, at the moment). "potential linux-using 
> customers" for an IT store is probably around 1% or less of their 
> clientèle. If they worried about it, they'd spend more money on that 1% 
> than they'd get in return, at the cost of potentially alienating 
> themselves from the core of their market.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> -- 
> Dave Neary
> bolsh gimp org
> Lyon, France