No matter how good Ubuntu is, no matter how fast Ubuntu boots, no matter how beautiful it is, without some heavy duty marketing, Linux is going to have a hard time getting that mass market appeal. Of course some folks don’t care about that (or hope it never becomes mainstream). I’m not one of those people.

Thats why projects like SpreadUbuntu need as much as love as possible.

What does this have to do with Global Jam? There is plenty of material on SpreadUbuntu that can be used to promote the Global Jam, but they are mostly with the old branding.

We need more material with the new colors!

Look at what David Rubin posted the Ubuntu-za is using to promote the Ubuntu Global Jam:

That is some serious hotness.

If your LoCo is creating promotional material for the Global Jam with the new branding, make sure to upload the originals to SpreadUbuntu!

And if you want to get involved with SpreadUbuntu, check out the wiki.

Advertising is key. Post every couple of days to the mailing lists (the LoCo list, LUGs, other open source user groups around you), post it on your Facebook wall, put it on the your LoCo Facebook page and create a Facebook event for it, post it to your LoCo forums, post it on the LoCo Directory, tweet/dent and then retweet/redent about it regularly. If there are LUG meetings (or any other open source group meetings like Python, PHP, Drupal, etc) between now and the date of your Jam, show up and pitch it to them in person. And of course, blog!

The wiki has great documentation on how to run jams.

I thought we should look at what Ubuntu Global Jams look like:

And if you do your Ubuntu Global Jam right, it will deteriorate rather quickly (hopefully):

Any questions?

The LUG at LTC is just getting off the ground. Most of the members are very new to Linux. Joshua Roberts has been working hard getting everything in place, everything from setting up cached repositories, to organizing presentations which cover the command line and system management.

Kudos to LTC for taking the leap.

Click above to listen to the greatest TV intro ever.

When:
Saturday, November 21st, 2009, 9am-5pm

Where:
ITT Tech
1745 Phoenix Blvd # 100
Atlanta, GA
(Map)
Enter the ITT Tech building at the north end, front doors on the east side are kept locked on the weekends.

One step closer to disconnecting cable.

If you can’t see it, click here.

Watch the video on YouTube.

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Watch the video at http://people.ubuntu.com/~nali/events/UbuntuGlobalJam2009.html.

In this Ubuntu Podcast quickie: Karmic Alpha 5 is out, how to participate in Ubuntu Global Jam, Pennsylvania LoCo at CPOSC, Ubuntu in Zimbabwe parliament, Greek Team helps build educational repo, 5th issue of Greek Team magazine Ubuntistas, Ubuntu Technical Board elections, Tahoe-LAFS in Karmic, new screencasts, Ubuntu Mexico podcast, Ubuntu User magazine issue #2.