We want to reach to a million Windows users: help spread the news!

Well, I just added GGL to my mail signature.
Might be more efficient to reach Windows users than my forum signatures on GNU/Linux related forums. ^^

P.S: Once more, I have problems accessing some pages... :/
When trying to reach a translation page from here: http://translate.gnulinuxmatters.org/languages/
I get this:
[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/translations/pootle/de/pootle-pootle-de.prefs'

And this is even when logged in!

To circumvent it, I can currently enter URLs like this:
http://translate.gnulinuxmatters.org/de/ggl/index.html

Note: Going over the http://translate.gnulinuxmatters.org/projects/ggl/ page works too.

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And "Pas de réel choix" (http://www.passeralinux.fr/windows/pas_de_reel_choix/) sounds a bit strange to me. O.o
Shouldn't it be "pas de vrai choix", "pas de choix réel" or "pas vraiment de choix"?

The digg article is now online! If you can, have all your relatives push it up

Hello KlAaze!

Thanks for the signature. It's indeed a good idea - in GNU/Linux forums it's also a useful idea though, because it increases PageRank a little. And not everybody knows about our work.

Yes, we all have started having problems very recently, it was noticed only this afternoon. It's going to be worked out (though I can't make promises), thanks for the report.

Thanks for your continual patience

Olivier.

Hey! It's just been fixed (thanks to the Pootle community).

Thanks for the report!

Ah.. ladies and gentlelmen, I am being interrupted by the delivery of fresh news from the front... the problem is fixed. Gustavo solves these problems faster than I can type about them in this forum.

I sadly missed the boat on the digging.. But I think there will be more chances to spread the word, as for example the official launch of Animador powered campaign site.

Also there were ideas of pushing up the Freedomware campaign with videos (among other things) which should be done in the coming months (I am also slowly progressing on some things I planned on doing before moving on to that part). A Freedomware campaign may or may not be independent from the already laid out initiatives by GLM, but since Landy is in now and I would be involved as well it could be done anyway, in parallel to the officially planned GLM initiatives. The value of this is that, if Freedomware campaign is succesful, it will also divert a lot of people to GetGNULinux.org and other GLM sites.

Anyway, I'll make it part of my ongoing todo list to update all, small and big Libervis sites and pages with a nice button linking to GetGNULinux.org - like a badge that denotes that "this site is powered by GNU/Linux" linking to where the visitor can find more about it. I'll ask the bloggers we host to add a button as well. They're all GNU/Linux friendly. As we grow so will the contribution we can make towards this campaign.

2008 will be a good year. We're all just getting started.

It looks like it's not going to hit Digg's homepage.

Dropping "GNU" to the GNU/Linux system was not enough. We should've written:

Hmm.. yeah..

I'm not sure, to be honest, if talking about ourselves in third perspective is necessarily more effective though. Maybe something akin to "hey yo, we're gonna switch 1 000 000 users to Linux, are you with me?" would do. Of course, not exactly in those words.

But then again it's hard to get dugg nowadays.. so it's not really defeat. There are plenty of ways to get promoted.

Who wants to spend the whole evening answering Castilian emails with me?

AFAIK/Among other things:

• We've hit the most-famous, Digg.com-like site for Castilian speakers.
• The biggest Hispanic freedomware organization (Hispalinux) is spreading the word among their associate members.
• The leader of Linux Español (one of the two most influential freedomware organizations in Spain), Julian Coccia, has told me that they're also going to spread the word.
• The leader of Hispalinux is also spreading the word on his blog.

This is not it - it's just a summary.

Cheers!

well done

We're on LinuFR right now; it's raining clicks on passeralinux.fr =)

Thank you for this great initiative !
Just 2 things :
- There is no reference to gnulinuxmatters of the sites, no disclaimer. The site touts the quality of something, but the first question I would ask myself (if I weren't already a linux zealot, of course) is : where does it come from ? Is it serious ? Is it a kind of hoax to convince me of installing some trojan ? Telling who's gnulinuxmatters and why it promotes linux should make people more confident in the content of the site itself.

- I think the "switch to linux" section should mention LUGs and install parties. Many LUGs do a tremendeous job helping people to switch, and it shows that free software is not just about software, it's also community. Non-techies would be reassured it they could get help switching from a real human at a local club.

Just my 2 cents.

Hello, McFly!

(and sorry for the delayed response)

1.- I think our footer, which reads "A project of the GNU/Linux Matters non-profit", and our more section are enough.
2.- I think it'd be a good addition to the site =)

Thanks for the suggestions!