Oct 26
LugRadio and Ubuntu FTW!
Fantastic news from last night’s Linux User and Developer Awards.
LugRadio Live 2006 won the Best Open Source Marketing Campaign award. We beat off some stiff competition from Ubuntu’s ShipIt scheme, which I’d assumed would definitely win!
Our marketing for LRL 2006 went well thanks largely to the help of three groups of people:
- OpenAdvantage whose design work gave our promotion a consistent, contemporary presentation
- Bytemark for their sponsorship of our programme, banners, etc
- and the awesome LugRadio community for their word of mouth!
I am slightly frustrated, though, that despite being nominated for and winning an award, not all of us could attend the ceremony. At over ?120 a ticket, the award ceremony was priced some way above our budgets and, I imagine, of most ordinary Linux users.
Now we LugRadio boys have to argue over who gets to have the award on their mantlepiece!
On the Ubuntu front, we won the Best Distribution award! Congrats to everyone in the community!
* By the way, my use of “FTW” is purely ironic 
October 26th, 2006 at 10:52 am
Congrats, guys! It was really great to participate, too. Where will LugRadio stop?…
October 26th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
“We beat off some stiff competition”, ha! That made me laugh.
October 26th, 2006 at 7:52 pm
Yes congratulations indeed. The whole look and feel of the event and the associated marketing was ideally balanced between feeling professional and maintaining the fun and the community spirit.
Have you ever thought of doing this marketing stuff professionally
November 1st, 2006 at 12:36 pm
The irony of Langridge being involved in a team that’s won a marketing award is certainly not lost on this listener. He doesn’t even know what it is!