On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:04 PM, susmit shannigrahi<[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, for freemedia, one can not charge money. > He can ask the person if he is ok with it and do it separately. > But freemedia needs more extensive thinking. To elaborate on this, the Freemedia program (as it is now) is completely dependent on the volunteering capacities of those who have raised their hands for it. Based on the volume of requests and, the number of volunteers, it becomes fairly hard sooner or later to meet all the requests. What happens then is that we fail our potential users - we provide them a way to request a media and yet, we do not actually end up sending them one. The alternative model (as PLUG is an example) is a not-free-of-cost media program. Here, anyone could put up their names as a provider of media _with_cost_attached_. Whether this cost includes only media charges plus postage or, whether it also includes a small margin is left to the volunteer. This ensures that we have two things going into this - [1] there is accountability built-in (if someone charges for goods, they'd need to deliver [2] the requests which did not receive a media now have an option of getting the media via payment. I took the example of PLUG (PuneLUG) because they seem to be servicing such requests successfully and, this may just be a way for LUGs (as well as individuals) to have a way to outreach to a larger community without having to pay out of their own pocket. I am more interested to ensure that we are in a position to provide media than spend time trying to figure out how best to revive Freemedia. ~sankarshan -- 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
