In a message dated: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:33:33 EDT
Jerry Kubeck said:
>This is all a good thing as long as we don't lose sight of the fact that
>one of our members and her company has spent $200 for Red Hat CD's plus an
>additional amount of money for packets with the LBS show logo for
>registrants to keep the info gathered as her part of sponsoring the Show. I
>hate to diminish her contributions
I don't see this as diminishing Lori's contribution in any way. My
understanding was, based on what the registration web site mentioned, was that
the first 100 or so registrants recieved a free copy of the authentic RH 6.2
distribution.
We're proposing selling un-official distributions of choice at a slight profit
to make some money for GNHLUG. This money can then be used towards a meeting,
or, if not a substantial amount is earned, we all go out for Dinner that night
:)
Lori's contribution is used as an incentive to register. Once people are
there though, and they see what Linux can do, why not make available to them
the distribution of their choice at a very reasonable amount. This will give
them an incentive to then try Linux out, since it will be made at a price
affordable to all, and, we can ask them to register at the table in case they
didn't at the website. I can only see this as a positive thing.
>We will have CD's from Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, Mandrake, and maybe Turbo
>Linux. How many? Who knows till we see the packages arrive. Certainly not
>enough to hand out another 100.
Then we should definitely look into having a table with a few machines burning
more CDs, IMO.
>How much does it cost for 100 blank CD's? How long to make 100 CD's? Which
>distro do you make?
Well, my suggestion was to pre-burn a good number of the 4 or 5 major
distributions (probably more of the RHs than the others). Then burn on demand
at the show to backfill as they're bought.
100 CDs, you can probably get that on-line for less than $100.
--
Seeya,
Paul
----
"I always explain our company via interpretive dance.
I meet lots of interesting people that way."
Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000
If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
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