There is a discussion going on in the Ubuntu Marketing team’s mailing list about creating Ubuntu videos in order to advertise Ubuntu to normal users.

Quite frankly, the progress of Ubuntu's marketing is, at best, slow. The idea of the features page is nice and this year there is even a animation on the home page advertising some of Ubuntu's new features, but the message of all this is wrong.

Advertising and marketing agencies have been loyal to the Apple Macintosh for more than two decades. But Yooter InterActive Marketing Agency is breaking from tradition and standardizing on Ubuntu Server Edition and Ubuntu Desktop Edition, Works With U has learned. Here are the details.

Open source OS wants to challenge Windows and OS X, but fails to back this up with the marketing gusto required for such a task

One of the discussions we had during the marketing and outreach session is whether the marketing should emphasize "Free" or emphasize the benefits of GNOME.

Most Linux adepts will agree Linux could have a higher market share than it does today, if it had been marketed more effectively in the past. Therefore, lots of those adepts stress “Linux needs more marketing!”

Recently, on another site, someone suggested that the development and marketing of Ubuntu was done by paid staff of Canonical. Having been actively involved in the Arizona Team for 8 months I would like to say that I really doubt that the suggestion can be taken seriously by anyone who knows a little about Ubuntu.

I'm already using the beta of the forthcoming version of Ubuntu 10.04 and I like it a lot. I decided to ask the good people at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, what they thought about the new Ubuntu, scheduled to arrive on April 29th, and this is what Gerry Carr, head of platform marketing had do say.

Ubuntu. Ah Ubuntu. My old friend. That operating system that, despite being one of the best (if not THE best) desktop operating systems available, still can not gain any traction. But that can change. In the newest release of the Ubuntu Software Center you will find an “iTunes-like” music service.