I'm going to apply the practical questions here. Don't take my comments as being negative though - I think this would be a great idea. It went over well last year I think...
1) Who is doing this? COSSFEST, or CLUG? Being on the COSSFEST planning committee, I know we have enough on our plates as is, so this would be better as a CLUG endeavor I think. 2) Who is organizing/coordinating this? Szemir has stepped up thus far. What I"m not seeing is if he is "the guy" or simply planting the seed. Even if he is "the guy", I'm sure he'd appreciate some help. 3) Where are the CDs/DVDs/media coming from? The financiers of last year's event put out approx $250 for media. And we had LOTS of burned CDs left over. A "Burn on demand" makes more sense in terms of wasted effort, but adds it's own hassles. 4) Is CLUG doing a booth? I know this has been talked about by the COSSFEST planning team in passing, but to the best of my knowledge there has been no definitive answer. Do the CD activities happen at the CLUG booth? Who is manning the booth? The usual gang for this (Kin, Szemir, myself, Gustin, and a few more I'm sure) will be busy that day giving presentations, or helping the event in other ways. 5) If disks are going to be pre-burned, who is burning them? When? There's only 3 weeks to COSSFEST. Again, I don't mean to be raining on the idea. But having the idea is only the first step. Making it happen takes more effort. The above may sound like a lot of decisions/work, but can be minimized if the various members "just do it". We can all burn a few copies and donate a few CDs/media to minimize the time/money involved. But this still needs someone to coordinate things. My thoughts... not yours... Shawn bogi wrote: > Hi, this is a sort of a referandom, about the Linux Unix Bsd Distros we will > be giving away at Cossfest. > > What I am asking is > -1- Put a (*) after the name of the distro you like to have there, or. > -2- Add your suggestion and put the (*) after it in your reply to this > posting. > > Like i said, it is an approximation to the total racio of disks setes needed > to be produced for Cossfest > > > Ubuntu > Fedora > OpenSuse > Mandriva > Slackware > Debian > DSL > FreeBSD > OpenSolaris > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
