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[Joseph Liau <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Rafał,

Seeing that your audience does not have much experience or bad
associations with "geeky" computer stuff, I would add that you might
like to avoid (when possible) any mention of "Linux" or comparisons to
other free/non-free operating systems.

Hopefully that will provide a fresh view of Ubuntu, and show that it
is not geeky or really that related.

Randall mentioned this http://randall.executiv.es/tip6

Good luck!
Joe

On 13-03-21 02:45 PM, Rafał Cieślak wrote:
> Thank you for your replies!
> 
> First, I'll answer Octavian's question:
> 
>> What's the technical level of the audience? Do you reckon they 
>> have experience with other distributions?
> 
> Most of these people are going to be math students. Therefore I 
> believe that while little of them will have any extensive technical
> knowledge, they will enjoy logical and sound reasoning. It is
> unlikely that they will have any experience with any distro. 
> Because here where I live Linux is generally either know very 
> little or considered as some uber-geek stuff, I expect I might
> even surprise some of them by proving that you can use a graphical 
> interface on something that is anyhow related to Linux... :-) so
> it may be easy to make a good impression.
> 
> Vincent, this is a great deal of advice. I indeed should share my 
> enthusiasm, present myself as an Evangelist, and tell them what I 
> love about Ubuntu, not what an average person might enjoy. This
> way my lecture would be much more honest, and therefore -
> convincing. Thanks for this tip!
> 
> Randall, special thanks for you - that was so helpful! You are 
> right that a live demo is absolutely a must. If my audience has
> not yet seen Ubuntu, it is likely that they will enjoy it's
> simplicity of use, or the beauty of design. Mixing my stories with
> demos can just do the trick! I am honestly unsure about what
> pointers I should give. There is no Ubuntu group in my city, and
> the Polish Ubuntu community is... well, if I wanted to make anyone
> hesitant about Ubuntu, I'd point them there. I'll probably end up 
> recommending the global community (forums/askubuntu/etc.), to 
> minimize the their chances of unpleasant experience when 
> interacting with community. I agree that explaining the
> philosophy, the ideas behind the project, and personal stories and
> own experience will be much more valuable then technical details
> or history. I will surely underline the role of community in
> Ubuntu development! I have also considered contributing a single,
> simple translation to Ubuntu (via Rosetta) during the presentation:
> just to demonstrate why there are so many users, who find
> contributing so easy, that they want to participate. I doubt that
> newcommers would be interested in contributing, but that might help
> them understand the analogy to Wikipedia. Most likely, recording
> the performance will, unfortunately, not be an option, because of
> the conditions under which the event will be held. I will,
> however, share my experience an thoughts in as much detail as
> possible. This may be a valuable feedback, especially to
> Evengelists :-)
> 
> Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!
> 
> Rafał Cieślak
> 
> 2013/3/19 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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