On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Ankur Sinha<[email protected]> wrote:
> This is because everyone that requests a media does not turn into a > local contact. The media is not following the "receiver becomes donor" > scheme that we want it to. We never did visualize the "receiver becomes donor" way of paying it forward. The idea was to de-lineate the LocalContacts from the "free" FreeMedia aspect. Which in plain terms means that the LCs should be able to project that they are charging for the media. > Local contacts are usually students who have a fixed pocket money. You > can do the math :) So, do I take it that the students will not want to set up a system whereby they can charge for media and, keep a margin for themselves ? That's a paradox really. I would have thought that given the volume of demand and scarcity of supply, it should have been a reasonably nice opportunity. > As Rangeen mentions in his reply, UGs are merely students. Again , same > equation. Another variable that messes this up is that Fedora isn't the > only distribution around. Since they are Linux UGs and not Fedora UGs, > getting people to distribute fedora dvds is difficult. They all support > their different distributions and fundamentally want the same thing we > do, for them. There's a hefty discussion as to which distro we are going > to use in the install fest. Its not always Fedora. Let me rephrase the question (assuming that neither Rangeen nor you did get the drift) - can UGs actually be ready to set up a system whereby they charge for media when requested and, keep the margin in the UG account ? For example, http://plug.org.in/software.php - is this model difficult to replicate across other UGs and, especially institute UGs ? > A query: Are all the local contacts members of the free media list, > rather, do they all check to see if there are requests that they can > service or is this done by somebody (who assigns such media requests to > local contacts)?? I don't have the answer to that off-hand, but I can check around. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Fedora-india mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-india
