atheoi / Conrad: I completely agree with you, apart from *all the hard work of all the persons working on the 'background'*, a breakthrough of Linux/Ubuntu to the foreground is indeed for a huge part "*just a matter of marketing*" So go for it! - Go to your *local* computer hardware store and suggest to add Ubuntu as an OS to their 'pre-install' list with 100$ off on that same computers - Talk to *people* about Ubuntu/Linux about it's strong points: stable, secure, free, fast, growing, - Give Canonical additional idea's on *global* marketing 'stunts' like: * Give a cosmonaut an 'Ubuntu'-sticker on his helmet or something, whatever,... * or sponsor a sports-event by developing & running the statistics programs on Ubuntu servers (like IBM does on some tennist events, like HP does on ski-events somewhere, ...) * just a brainstorm-idea: try to run a project with Swatch-Switserland or something and install Ubuntu on a newly developped Swiss watch with flash-memory & bluetooth-enablement so it's also a wireless memory stick, a remote mail-reader if you're in the neighbourhood of your PC (cfr. a Tux-droid function), ...: this will be in the local news also if you push national press-agencies (like Belga in Belguim,...) to publish it as an article - local newspapers and TV stations get their news-info 80% from there anyway... * or something completely new so people really 'see' it... (just quickly writing this mail in-between a small break of work so no break-through-idea's yet:-/)... *Marketing*!!!! We are too 'friendly' and very honest: this is good, but it may be joined with a bit of raging marketing for the good cause! 2008/4/7 Conrad Knauer