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[Randall Ross <randall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Welcome Rafał! It's great to have you on the Evangelists team. I hope
you'll find this to be the best collection of the most passionate Ubuntu
humans anywhere.

My advice:

1) Know your audience.
What would make them enthusiastic? What are their interests? The more
you understand their motivators, the higher your chances of making them
excited about Ubuntu.

2) Give a great demo of Ubuntu, on a clean system.
Show features that are appealing to them. Demo the capabilities of
Ubuntu that really show off its strengths, in an interesting way. People
love a great and lively demo.

3) Give a very brief presentation. (max 10 slides in 20 minutes)
Skip the usual computer history and dry technical stuff. Tell them
instead about Ubuntu's philosophy, which is *the* key differentiator
over proprietary systems. Encourage them to visualize a project like
Wikipedia where anyone with a passion can add to the project and help
create it. Tell them the story of how you got involved in building
Accomplishments as a very concrete example. Your passion and enthusiasm
will be contagious. Tell them a story or two about people you've met in
the community, with photos.

4) Give them a take-away.
Prepare a small card or pamplet with pointers to deeper info. But more
importantly, give them instructions on how to join your city's Ubuntu
group. When you gather a few people in your city to enjoy Ubuntu
together this will all get more fun and much easier too :) And, that
gives them a place they can go to get questions answered by real people,
which is something that no other OS offers: real community.

5) Have a friend video record the performance (if you can).
This will help future Evangelists learn from your experience.

Wishing you success my Evangelist friend!

Cheers,
Randall



On 13-03-18 03:24 PM, Rafał Cieślak wrote:
> Hello Ubuntu Evangelists!
>
> First, greetings everybody! As an Ubuntu enthusiast and a member of
> community who actively promotes Ubuntu, I consider it a honor to be a
> part of this great uprising project.
>
> I am sending this e-mail because I believe that one of this team's
> aims may be to share ideas and experiences related to promoting Ubuntu
> to a wider audience.
>
> Yesterday I have been asked to deliver a lecture concerning Ubuntu on
> my local university. Sounds like a great chance to spread a word about
> Ubuntu, right? Although a small audience is to be expected, I consider
> it my duty to accept this offer, and to use it the best way possible.
> I am free to choose whatever topic of the lecture I wish, and if this
> idea succeeds, I may be given chance to deliver one or two more in a
> later term.
>
> Although I could prepare the lecture on my own (I feel very confident
> when speaking about Ubuntu, and my level of expertise is enough to
> make up a interesting presentation), I am asking you for tips on
> leading such event.
> My particular questions include:
>    - Have you ever done something similar? What was your experience?
> What is your general advice? What should I pay most attention to?
>    - Do you have any ideas concerning which topics should I present?
> Most of the audience will likely have either minimum or no experience
> with Ubuntu, so potentially I might go ahead with something like "What
> is Ubuntu" or "Why is it cool", but that just sounds boring and
> unoriginal (although such lecture itself may be indeed interesting). I
> have also thought about presenting just the the purely non-technical
> sides of Ubuntu (community, philosophy), but this, on the other hand,
> would be not interesting to those who are completely new to Ubuntu. Do
> you happen to have some cool ideas here?
>    - In my local community the level of ubuntu-awareness is very
> little. How can I ensure this will not affect my lecture's clarity, so
> that ubuntu-unaware people could enjoy it too?
>
> I welcome all tips and experience you can share!
>
> Rafał Cieślak
>

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