> > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:23:21 +0530 > From: "Sankarshan (????????)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [fedora-india] Susmit's blog ... and the media bits > To: The Fedora Project Community in India <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > For those who have missed it, Susmit blogged today about the fact that > he wasn't feeling up to the task of being the face of Fedora in front of > an audience at an Engineering College. > > http://susmit.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/today-i-have-a-talk-on-fedora/ > > In this case, I believe that the buck stops with me. And I take it as a > lesson to work on the media availability bits so that this does not get > repeated. > > I thought I had (wrongly as it turns out) fixed the media availability > bits for this particular event. So Susmit, I am sorry that you feel the > way you do. As a Fedora Ambassador and a pioneer mirror manager, you > don't deserve to feel that way and we intend to take care of that. > > Susmit is going to represent Fedora at Nagpur at an event called AXIS > and we are going to ensure that there is media. > > Sometime earlier, I'd written to the list about those who would desire > to have a set of media which they can use to meet the demands from the > users. Barring Kushal and Debarshi no one had responded. So, if you do > require a set of media which you intend to use to meet demands locally, > please feel free to write to the list and let's get on with making that > available.
We should be in a position to satisfy requirements in West Bengal soon. I can convince college authorities to start the service, but they wont agree beyond WB. We do ship media from time to time on special requests. Day before yesterday, I shipped two linux DVDs to a guy in Jalpaiguri. > > > It is a fairly known fact that making media bits available to every > request and meeting the demands for bulk shipment of media is somewhat > expensive. For that particular reason, we begun by choosing a very small > subset of FOSS events in the country. We have been lucky in the fact > that other events had sponsors like Nilesh (aka Electromech) who have > come forward with support of media. > > Currently, I have no more F9 media with me. I expect a small run to > happen, but that will take at least 20 days. iLUG-Delhi (and especially > Gora) are organizing a large number of workshops and they are doing a > production run of media again to meet the expected demands. > > So, what happens if you have an event to attend or organize ? > > [*] please let the list know about when it is going to happen Will post as soon as it is final, and there will be enough info on http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in . > > [*] put an owner to the event > [*] put that on the event tracker page > [*] if you get media sponsored, please follow it up > > Suggestions for improvement to the media bits issue are welcome. > > ~sankarshan--------
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