I think some sort of feedback from the libraries as far as if anybody actually is checking out the CD's would be nice. And (low-blow follows) some sort of advertisement, like putting a TUX doll on the computers in the internet lab would be helpful.
Byron ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Library Project > > --- Doug Riddle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think John's idea was to be verifiable, and fully > > operational > > before setting out. There is a librarian friend of > > John's that we > > are supposed to talk to before getting too far into > > thing so we can > > be sure we are compatible with the systems the > > libraries use as well. > > Doug, I've changed my mind slightly and think we > should start donating CDs to local libraries as Dustin > has suggested before we come up with a system for > verifying CDs. We can always re-burn more CDs later if > we want to add a verification tool. Besides, including > whatever verification tool we might come up with would > break the original distro's publisher's MD5 sum. :P > > About the only safe thing we could do is to possibly > later include the publisher's official MD5 sum on the > CD label. Bill Leblanc made a good argument for not > including it for now, since newbies won't really know > what to do with it under M$ Windows. > > John Hebert > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes > http://finance.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
