AHHHH, well I never saw anything about charging for the disks. This is an
excellent idea!!!!
>In a message dated: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:33:33 EDT
>Jerry Kubeck said:
>
>>This is all a good thing as long as we don't lose sight of the fact that
>>one of our members and her company has spent $200 for Red Hat CD's plus an
>>additional amount of money for packets with the LBS show logo for
>>registrants to keep the info gathered as her part of sponsoring the Show. I
>>hate to diminish her contributions
>
>I don't see this as diminishing Lori's contribution in any way. My
>understanding was, based on what the registration web site mentioned, was
>that
>the first 100 or so registrants recieved a free copy of the authentic RH 6.2
>distribution.
>
>We're proposing selling un-official distributions of choice at a slight
>profit
>to make some money for GNHLUG. This money can then be used towards a
>meeting,
>or, if not a substantial amount is earned, we all go out for Dinner that
>night
>:)
>
>Lori's contribution is used as an incentive to register. Once people are
>there though, and they see what Linux can do, why not make available to them
>the distribution of their choice at a very reasonable amount. This will give
>them an incentive to then try Linux out, since it will be made at a price
>affordable to all, and, we can ask them to register at the table in case they
>didn't at the website. I can only see this as a positive thing.
>
>>We will have CD's from Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, Mandrake, and maybe Turbo
>>Linux. How many? Who knows till we see the packages arrive. Certainly not
>>enough to hand out another 100.
>
>Then we should definitely look into having a table with a few machines
>burning
>more CDs, IMO.
>
>>How much does it cost for 100 blank CD's? How long to make 100 CD's? Which
>>distro do you make?
>
>Well, my suggestion was to pre-burn a good number of the 4 or 5 major
>distributions (probably more of the RHs than the others). Then burn on
>demand
>at the show to backfill as they're bought.
>
>100 CDs, you can probably get that on-line for less than $100.
>--
>Seeya,
>Paul
>----
> "I always explain our company via interpretive dance.
> I meet lots of interesting people that way."
> Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
>
> If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
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