With regard to the line mentioned in this months meeting report:
(advertising and/or perhaps donations of linux distributions to public
libraries (such as the Wellington LUG appear to be doing at the moment))
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I have looked back through the wallylug list archive. And it seems that
they acquired 50 copies of the "Download Edition" (Single CD Edition) of
Mandrake Linux version 8.0. Of which they recently donated to various
libraries around the Wellington area. Asking the libraries to add them to
their catalogue for lending.
I suspect that libraries would have accepted these very easily compared to
"burned" copies as we/I had assumed.
Nick Elder
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On Thursday 01 November 2001 23:17, Nick Elder wrote:
> Yes I took it the way Yuri did that they were donating distros to be lent
> out of the library. I joined he Wellington mailing list just this past
> sunday and only caught the tail end of a thread regarding what they were
> doing with this idea. I will see if I can work our how to get in to the
> Wellylug archive at yahoo groups this weekend to see if I can go back and
> find out more.
>
> Nick E
>
> On Wednesday 31 October 2001 21:04, Yuri DeGroot wrote:
> > >>advertising and/or perhaps donations of linux distributions to
> > >>public libraries (such as the Wellington LUG appear to be doing
> > >>at the moment))
> > >
> > >What a bizarre thing to do... It'd be a long shot that Linux
> > >would be used if donated to a library. Libraries are part of
> > >councils, and councils by nature are slow moving, bureaucratic
> > >
> > >>beasts with ingrained culture.
> >
> > Chris, not for libraries to use on their own systems, but to put
> > on their shelves for borrowers to take home, install, and return
> > the disks by the due date.
> >
> > This would require a purely free distro (no proprietary pkgs).
> >
> > Yuri
> >
> >
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