On 24 November 2015 at 09:45, sankarshan <[email protected]> wrote: > All these locations receive the DVD and thus roughly 2000 individuals > (not all new/unique) receive F23 media. What happens next?
I personally consider DVDs to be smarter stickers, buttons or flyers, i.e. promotional media that has digital content. In that context, the impact of DVDs is similar to impact of stickers: they help improve brand awareness at conferences and meetups. There is the other aspect of enabling individuals who may otherwise not have the bandwidth to download the distirbution and try it themselves. The freemedia program tries to reach out to such people, but like you, I am not very convinced about its utility in attracting long term users or contributors. That said, there seems to be quite a bit of interest in DVDs (from conference attendees and consequently, ambassadors) regardless of our apprehensions and that says something even though we don't quite know what. I don't think DVD production is that big a cost that we need to put so much thought into potentially replacing it with something else. If there's an alternative that needs evaluation (like a device that allows people to plug USB sticks in and copy a bootable distribution copy, that sounds like a nice engineering project), we should bring it up first, try it and then decide if DVD production is putting cost pressure on that alternative. Siddhesh -- http://siddhesh.in _______________________________________________ india mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/india
