On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:48 AM, sankarshan<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Rangeen Basu<[email protected]> wrote: > > > As much as I like everyone to receive a media. I guess that just bulk > producing media to continue shipments is not going to be a good thing.
Extremely sorry if my thoughts were not clear but I wasn't tlaking about bulk producing media rather I was talking about a way freemedia contributors can send media to the requesters. Normally freemedia contributors would buy media , burn them and pot them. I would be nice if this cost could e borne by the requesters, if not in full then at least a part of it. If there is a general consensus in this regard then the freemedia contributors can start using this method. > There should be ways and means to outreach. For example, there are > UserGroups a plenty - can we figure out a way to tie into them as well > as have them accountable for shipping the media. I know PuneLUG does > an awesomely good job of doing so, how about other UGs ? The UGs at > institutes for example - does their charter allow them to ship media > at-cost ? This is obviously a way but there is still the problem of postage cost. The user group members are nothing more than volunteers and at institutes, mere students. How can distribution of freemedia by a LUG be funded? I know that the Institute LUGs do have the Institute as a source of fund but that is not enough. Plus a lot of requests from the institute students need to be served and after that little is left to send out.Coming to shipping media at-cost, I think what I said about freemedia contributors above holds for UGs as well. They obviously can. But a general consensus is required and a message needs to be propagated that "freemedia is not free as in free beer". If the requesters agree, the contributors agree and the parent body i.e the freemedia managing committee agrees then there will be very little hindrance. P.S: My thought about using VPP is only a way of collecting the money and is probably the cheapest way other than wire transfer, which is probably not feasible. I would also like to know what other people think of this. -- Regards Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador [email protected] _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
