[TriLUG] Fw: Announcing a New Online Store for Tux T-shirts

[Cristobal Palmer]

Wow. I was getting all excited reading the press release, but then I 
actually followed the link. I don't know that a tee of Tux peeing on the 
Windows butterfly (for example) is the kind of PR the Linux community is 
lacking.

Check it out for yourselves.

-CMP

On 8/22/05, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:01:57 +0000
> From: Jason Bechtel <bechtel at freeshell.org>
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> Subject: TALUG: Announcing a New Online Store for Tux T-shirts
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> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> 
> Contact:
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> Tux Delux LLC
> c/o Michael McSteen
> 175 Second Street
> Athens, Ohio 45701
> support at tuxdelux.com
> 
> Announcing a New Online Store for Tux T-shirts
> 
> Still waiting to get that fabulous Tux t-shirt? Wait no more. Now you can 
> get
> a Tux T-shirt and help out the Linux community! Introducing TuxDelux
> ( http://tuxdelux.com ), a new online store solely devoted to marketing 
> and
> promoting Tux the Penguin.
> 
> The brainchild of two Linux enthusiasts, Bryan Dumm and Michael McSteen,
> TuxDelux is an effort to increase public awareness of Linux by shamelessly
> marketing and promoting Tux the Penguin, the adopted mascot of the Linux
> community.
> 
> "We don't see Tux as much as we should. We don't see it on the street, in 
> the
> stores or in any media." said Dumm. "We want to change that."
> 
> The two originally thought of the idea for Tux Delux while attending a 
> recent
> conference. They saw a lot of logos and icons promoting individual
> software programs and corporations, but nothing promoting the Linux.
> "Mike and I always talk about the need for 'Place' (one of the four P's of
> marketing) for Linux. The same holds true for 'Promotion'," Dumm 
> explained.
> 
> Both Dumm and McSteen think one of the best ways to introduce the public 
> to
> Linux is by introducing them to Tux the Penguin. They hope that the more 
> the
> Linux community promotes Tux, the more the general public will be curious
> about Linux. "We want people to ask, 'hey, what's up with the penguin?' We
> want to peak people's curiosity about Tux and Linux," McSteen stated.
> 
> "We think Tux is a fantastic image and that the Linux community needs to 
> rally
> around him to market and promote Linux," Dumm added.
> 
> Tuxdelux.com <http://Tuxdelux.com> currently offers eight different Tux 
> designs, including the
> original. The company plans to introduce several new designs over the next
> couple of months.
> 
> Visit tuxdelux.com <http://tuxdelux.com> to find out more. If you have any 
> questions, please contact
> Michael McSteen at: support at tuxdelux.com
> 
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Cristobal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student
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"Television-free since 2003"