Ubuntu Street Team Has Started

[josephmills]

Hello there. I have started a group that is called The Ubuntu Street Team.

So what is a street team ?

Well there are many different kinds but here are a few to start out with.

In the Music biz there are people that go out before the concert and they hang up posters and talk to people about the show. They ware band tee-shirts and and try and raise as much focus and energy to the event as they can . And alot times these crews also do the merchandising for the band also. This is one kinda street teams.
A different Kinda street team is a person/person’s that sits outside of a store or anywhere in public and gather signatures to hand off to there local congressman/women/zhe/whatever. There Missions is to gather as many signatures as they possibly can. They also (most of the time) get paid per signature. Like tenth of a US Dollar per signature. This funding is done in a multitude of ways.
You can also see street team’s In Las Vegas U.S.A handing out flyers for night clubs and what not. some times you can even see some street team crew members dressed up in a custom waving a sign around trying to attract a customer into there place of business.


So What does this have to Do with Ubuntu?

The street teams will be made up of people that go to festivals and other places where the human traffic is high. We will hand out live cds. who knows hopefully in the future we will have tables ad booths at these venues.

The Ubuntu Street Team is also trying to get togeather with police fireman mayor congressmen and women and just about anybody that has pull in the government. We will then try to get sponsored by one of these people. To push Ubuntu into the schools lib's and well just about every where. Via signautes form local people. that can then be made into bills for other to pass on.

What else is Ubuntu Street team up too ?

We would like to help out any and all LoCo groups by helping others to going there group. The last thing that The Ubunut Street Team wants to do is to take away from LoCo groups. We want to help LoCo groups!Help them get started in places where there is none, and help out others that might be having a hardtime getting members or whatever.

So if you would like to help out we just got are website of the ground yesterday and Boy does it need help.
1) My spelling is less then sub par.
2) some pages need filler.
3) We need members.
4) We need lawyers
5) We need sponsorship
The list goes on and on as we just started up.

The Site is located here. http://ubuntustreetteam.tk/
you can sign in with your launch pad account. if you would like to help develop the site then you can meet me on the forums IRC channel or Ubuntu Street Teams one.My nick is bobweaver. Or email and I will put you on the list to help develop

Thanks for taking the time to read this. And I look forward to hearing from you in the future with questions and answers

Joseph Mills

[kevdog]

Just a question -- the members of the street team will be paid for their efforts?

[sffvba[e0rt]

Just a question -- the members of the street team will be paid for their efforts?

No. Street Teams are voluntary (like the forum staff and thousands of others taking part in Ubuntu on some or other level without getting any remuneration (well in money) for their efforts).


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[josephmills]

Just a question -- the members of the street team will be paid for their efforts?

Not found is 100% correct for the time being. (that is why #4) We need lawyers) is so important I do not think that you can do a 501 (c) with out dropping the name ubuntu but i am not sure. Not a lawyer.

[keithpeter]

Hello josephmills and all

Nice idea, well done and best of luck with all the legal aspects of voluntary work.

Any plans to focus your street team on audiences that might be especially receptive? e.g. Universities, coffee shops near local design / web development companies, hacker spaces &c?

When Precise goes stable, I might go to a few hacker-space like events and just show it around. Load it with the audio software from ubuntustudio packages, that kind of stuff.

PS: why the .tk domain?

[josephmills]

Hello josephmills and all

Nice idea, well done and best of luck with all the legal aspects of voluntary work.

thanks !

Any plans to focus your street team on audiences that might be especially receptive? e.g. Universities, coffee shops near local design / web development companies, hacker spaces &c?

Yes I do but I want to stay futer away from hackerspaces and other places that might already know about ubuntu.
I think that the Loco teams can take care of the hackerspaces.

coffeeshop's = 100% ubuntu hour I think that that is a great thing for coffee shops.

I want to focus mainly on the first year doing. Festival's and sporting events. keep it above 15,000 people or more that are going to be at the venues of choice.

Here is a list of some of thouse venues

http://www.bonnaroo.com/
http://www.coachella.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phish_festivals
http://gatheringofthevibes.com/
http://wakarusa.com/
http://www.waneefestival.com/
http://www.highsierramusic.com/
http://www.campbisco.net/
http://forecastlefest.com/
http://www.allgoodfestival.com/


As you can see these are all like 2 or more days long most of them are out of the way. So getting supplies half way though a festival can be a pain esp if you or other have been drinking or you do not want to loose your spot because you waited 5 hr in your car in line. This makes for a prime target as. 1) people will see you over and over again because there is no place else to go. But what if you stacked up on bottled water that had ubuntu symbols or cards on them.what about ICE for there beers and coolers. People would come over to get water from you. I mean I have seen this happen over and over again. Having a booth at things like this is not hard at all to get. most of the time if you know people then you can one or even share tables(booths) with people.

So in short I want people to see a giant well not gaint but a easyup http://www.ezup.com/index.html
with some stuff set up. Also if you are not selling and just asking for donations or suggested donations then you can get these spots uber cheap.

So people will ask what is that? maybe they can go away thinking that ubuntu is great. Then find out that it is linux a couple months later.

When Precise goes stable, I might go to a few hacker-space like events and just show it around. Load it with the audio software from ubuntustudio packages, that kind of stuff.

That sounds Super cool!
I can not wait until I get to talk to a lawyer I will then know what I can and can not do making life easy. there are a lot other plains also I noted some above. but some that I am keeping to myself due to legal reasons,

I tried to call the MA canonical office to talk about this. I was redirected to the one in the UK but no one got back to me. And I can Not call there $$.

PS: why the .tk domain?

That is all that I could get with 0.00 dollors I am plaining on buying a domain but it has been a rough winter for joseph.


Thanks so much for for your interest.


Oh and I am redoing the backend to the site to bee like ubuntu even have the music play when you log in check it out in a week or two.

still needs some work the whole site does. but it will be nice when done. I also patched and fixed ubuntu SSO plugin that was in the repo I will be uploading soon.






Thanks again
Joseph

[Dangertux]

This seems like a really cool project. I'm interested in seeing where it goes.

See my PM for more information

[Ms. Daisy]

Interesting. I have a few ideas on the front end, planning type stuff.

I've read your personal wiki a while back, Josephmills, and it's clear to me that you're serious about this. I applaud your efforts to bring Ubuntu to the people. The concept may be new in Ubuntu circles but it certainly isn't in the wide world of marketing. IMHO the project could probably benefit from studying some successful examples of programs similar to the one you propose. There's no point in reinventing the wheel. I'll PM you with more details.

[kevdog]

I applaud your efforts, however I can only speak for myself. I have a lot better things to do with my time than stand on street corners or in stores (or where ever), handing out Ubuntu CD's or talking about the product. The effort you are taking with this project is quite admirable. I sure hope your time and effort put into this project pays off for you in a big way.

[MisterGaribaldi]

Maybe it's just me, but I see the past repeating itself here.

Yes, I know things have changed substantially since the last great "go Linux" push back in 1998-99, but "the masses" out there aren't looking for principled, personal liberty-oriented operating systems. They're looking for what "just works" and doesn't require them to have to worry about technological support for their hardware of choice (which will be whatever the heck it will be), nor commercial support, nor are they interested in worrying about choosing between dual booting / VMing / WINEing / sourcing alternative F/OSS apps as a strategy to maintain their existing levels of productivity.

I love Linux, and I love such things as F/OSS and the GPL, but then I've always been a tech enthusiast, and I'm (not to bring politics into this, but) also a Libertarian at heart, and even all that being said I still demand a "production" environment which is why my desktops aren't running Linux, but Mac OS X and Windows. There's certain software I *need* to run for which there just aren't substitutes.

Now yes, it's true, everyone running Linux who doesn't *have* to support Win32/64 or Mac OS X apps would be a significant number of people and it would do the world a "world of good" because it would cut down on the nature and spread of viruses and vulnerabilities, but the average person out there isn't cut from the right sort of cloth to do this. Sorry, but that's just reality.