adding to saugat's comments : ----- Original Message ----- From: "saugata ghosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] A. Mani : Compass'05
> Distribution of CDs was our plan in compas'03. And it > was discussed in this meeting as well. > We cant "sell" items as we claim its a non commercial > stall for the community. IF we ask for stalls and get them for a 'social' objective as aginst 'commercially' buying stall space .. then we can't sell .. IF atul or similar speaker delivers lectures and donates his fees to ilug-cal to get/buy stalls from compass .. then nothing stops ilug-cal from doing whatever it wants to .. the issue in compass exec.comm would be 'misuse' of free stall for 'commercial' use .. this happens the moment 'money' comes into the picture for selling items FROM the stall > But we can always redirect > visitors to some other stall / give them some URL from > where they can purchase. this is the conclusion we arrived at during our discussion .. this is not a 'commercial' or 'money' thing .. its 'social' .. since we only inform .. not sell > Another option is to distribute free CDs. Then again > the question comes which flavour ? and to all visitors > ? this is a massive job too .. ALL visitors are always game for FREE things .. so we could perhaps ask interested people to put in their details and handle those away from the stalls .. this is a sure way to get footfalls to our stall though ! piikay > > -Saugata > > --- "A. Mani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Nobody spoke about CD distribution at > > Compass. Actually they > > are not that abundant. Yes some people do give dvds > > of some distros for > > a price (with the free magazine)... but their > > cumulative readership and > > the actual number of people with PCs differ by huge > > margins. Again few > > people have dvdroms. And people in the city like to > > shop a lot. And > > people with some distros will like at least a few > > more. We must > > encourage them. > > So we must either keep huge stocks of CDs of > > different well > > known and lesser known distros for sale at the > > compass or burn lots of > > them at the compass for a nominal fee. > > This will help the public too. > > The other thing we can do is about books on > > linux...... we can > > possibly display a huge lot of them, possibly offer > > some on cds as well > > and possibly try other schemes as well. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > A. Mani > > Member, Cal. Math. Soc. > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- > > Doubt Everything > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
