June 17th, 2011 byWe all know Ubuntu is great, but we want even more people to know just how great. With this in mind, we thought we’d give the visitors of ubuntu.com the tools to spread the word about Ubuntu.
As of today, you can see Tweet and Like buttons on some of the key pages of the website, such as Ubuntu for you, the Features pages, or the Download page.
This is the first step towards something bigger. In the pipeline are the introduction of more ways of sharing the Ubuntu message with friends, family and (why not?) your entire social network. For now, we’ve focused on the two most popular services.
Sharing your favourite pages of the Ubuntu website on Twitter is a breeze. Before tweeting, you can customise your message too.
We’d love to get your feedback, hear your suggestions, and know your ideas on how you can tell the world just how lovely Ubuntu is. As an Ubuntu lover and active member of the community, what tools do you think would help you and be most valuable in sharing your experience of Ubuntu?
Finally, if you love Ubuntu, help us spread the word: visit ubuntu.com and share those links with as many people as you can!
The toolkit
11 Responseshide comments
So, how long does it take for the Canonical (their website department) to realize that the world consists of more than English speaking people?
Ubuntu is great and one of the best localized OSs. But you can’t guide all people to the official Website, because many of them won’t understand anything!
That’s a point where you are way behind competition! When are you going to try to catch up?
Ha! the Ubuntu community gives dozens of translations that are all included in each ubuntu release.
He is talking about the localization of the official website and I completely agree. I am french and I have no problem to read english, but that’s not the case for most of the people here. And if I want to spread the word about ubuntu, I can’t point the official website as the answer would be “bah, it’s in english, it’s too complicated I don’t understand”.
I completely agree… I can read English but sometimes translating causes fatigue! Another thing: stop speaking urban language!
I think you need to get back and read what he said,
Philipp you have quite simply missed the whole multi language support in Ubuntu. Way ahead of the competition and if there’s a language that’s been missed then why not help the project along by your own efforts?
Your keyboard won’t get you past the capcha on chinese social networking sites and you are reading and writing in english.
Well done Ubuntu, Unity is a brave move. Time will tell if it’s the right move and I will tell my friends anyway.
@chris As I said. The OS is brilliant there. But I’m missing an official page in German or other languages, that you can show to people, so they can explore it themselves and find the Downloads and Help.
For the help you should link to the local communities e.g. http://ubuntuusers.de
As far as I know I can’t help translating the official website contents. It’s not designed yet to support different languages.
https://login.ubuntu.com/ (Ubuntu Single Sign On) is available in 6 other languages. And this is a site that is crucial to a key feature of ubuntu! To be able to use Ubuntu One you have to sign in on that website! It’s more or less pointless if the ubuntuone client is localised, but the site is not.
As with other elements of Ubuntu, the Website’s content should be open for translation. There’s a start with SSO
https://translations.launchpad.net/canonical-identity-provider
What are the plans to support other languages on other pages too?
you really didn’t catch up what he mean
I’m talking about the official WEBSITE ubuntu.com and NOT the Ubuntu as an OS.
As far as I know, I cannot help translating the official website.
One exception is the ubuntu single sign on where you can choose 6 other languages. https://login.ubuntu.com/ But that is not much, considered that SSO is needed for a core feature of Ubuntu (Ubuntu One). To use it you have to sign up and login online.
A localised Ubuntu One Client is more or less pointless.
for sso there’s a launchpad site, where one can help.
https://translations.launchpad.net/canonical-identity-provider
What is planned for other pages?
Ever made a usabiltity test if a French/Italian/German speaking person is able to find, learn about, download and install Ubuntu?
For help you should link to the various local forums and wikis. In German there’s an excellent wiki/forum: http://ubuntuusers.de
let’s not forget identi.ca
I spread already Ubuntu: I have activated the ubuntu default signature in Evolution, so every times I send a mail , there is a “Send from Ubuntu”.
one step ahead, this signature should be a link to the Ubuntu web site.
Thank you for offering us Ubuntu