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LinuxTag: GNOME Team distributed more than 1000 Ubuntu CDs to visitors

Submitted by murraycu on Mon, 2005-06-27 14:54. GNOME
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Translated from the German original

GNOME Deutschland finished its visit to this years's LinuxTag in Karlsruhe with great success.

The ten-person exhibition team from Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, and Britain distributed over 1000 Ubuntu CDs to the visitors to the Linux event. Worldwide, there are now more than 1.5 million CDs with Ubuntu and GNOME in use.

In addition, the team at the exhibition stand provided more than 250 LinuxTag GNOME LiveCDs based on Ubuntu, which default to German and contain sample files. The CDs were created with an ADR CD Robot (adr-ag.de). The CD's .iso file will soon be available from www.gnome-ev.de for burning to CD.

A further highlight of the GNOME presence was the presentation of the new Nokia Internet Tablet which visitors could try out at the Nokia and GNOME stands. The PDA runs with a version of the GNOME Desktop.

In various talks as part of the programme, GNOME developers presented the "GNOME Office" meta project, and discussed the further development of the Linux Desktop.

In a members meeting after LinuxTag, the GNOME Deutschland foundation decided to build yet more on its Marketing and PR activities to futher encurage the Linux Business Desktop. The aim is to make GNOME even more popular in the German-speaking world (Germany, Austria, Switzerland).

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Actually the Gnome booth gave by Anonymous George

Actually the Gnome booth gave

Submitted by murraycu on Tue, 2005-06-28 15:26.

The original was wrong, though Gnoppix is not a clearly defined name anyway. They are regular GNOME 2.10 LiveCDs that default to German and have some extra content.

Actually the Gnome booth gave

Submitted by murraycu on Tue, 2005-06-28 15:25.

The original was wrong, though Gnoppix is not a clearly defined name anyway. They are regular GNOME 2.10 LiveCDs that default to German and have some extra content.

PR and Marketing by Anonymous George

> Later on it's explicitly me

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-06-28 02:40.

> Later on it's explicitly mentioned that just 250 on LinuxTag.

What part of "In addition" do you not understand?

> same people have around 3-4 versions of Ubuntu

That's strange because there exist not more than 2 releases of Ubuntu.

1000 + 250

Submitted by murraycu on Tue, 2005-06-28 02:39.

We gave away 1000 Ubuntu LiveCDs and 250 custom LinuxTag GNOME 2.10 LiveCDs. That's why it says "In addition". Most people taking these CDs have not yet tried Ubuntu or any Linux Desktop, so I'm quite confident that 1.5 million CDs means almost that many people discovering Ubuntu for the first time. This success is a good thing.

PR and Marketing by Anonymous George

Fedora CDs

Submitted by murraycu on Tue, 2005-06-28 03:29.

We gave out approximately 10 Fedora Core 4 installation DVDs, provided by the Red Hat booth. We told every Red Hat person we found that they need to help us to help them, and they seem to agree.

Re: PR and Marketing

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-06-28 02:37.

> such as Fedora, Debian, Novell Desktop.. to name a few. Why have they being left out?

They don't invest million dollars into production and distribution of pressed Live CDs. Partly because they don't have the money (Debian).

Ubuntu for the People by Anonymous George