On 8/22/07, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, August 22, 2007 10:08 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On 8/22/07, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Where would you set up such a service? > > Wesley and The St. Albans Neighbourhood Network have agreed to make > > ~40GB of disk space available to us to hold .iso images. > > > > Before we download any .iso images specially, it would be a saving if > > list members could please bring various Linux/unix CDs to the next > > meeting for copying. > > > > Thanks. > > Thats excellent, now there are a few things we need to plan: > > What is the promotional budget? Goodness knows, You, David, and I, will decide because we control the money box.
> How will Joe Cool Public know about it? Members will talk & I'm sure that the letterbox 'tract' is by the best value for money in advertising. Labels on the copies of the CDs/DVDs will mention where this particular copy came from. 'Tracts' on the counter to the right of the door of the hall and in the public libraries. We have been offered a space for several hundred words in the news letter the Resource Centre publishes. I have written 255. Thus there will be space for a sentence about discs. Christoph has also said we can have a small space for a bald meeting announcement each month. > Who will man it when Joe Cool walks off the street and wants a copy of a > distro? It's not practical to have more than the top 4 or 5 distros at the most. It's surely possible to have one of each in the cupboard in the Network Neighbourhood room. ok there'll be some wastage but that's ok. There is a staff somebody at the St. Albans venue every day during volunteer hours. > Who will fund the purchase of a stock of (good quality) blank CD's & DVD's? CLUG. CDs are not terribly expensive these days. The premium for re-writables might be worth it. Folks can then re-load the disc when the next version of their distro comes out. > Who will pay for the inevitable coasters and the worn out CD writer? ditto. > Is there a DVD writer (inevitably more and more distros are on DVD). No. To be bought later if this exercise takes off. If it doesn't then we don't. > Who is paying for the bandwidth? I'm sure that members will be able to se the point of sharing their downloads. > What happens when the 40G runs out (thats about 8 DVD's, dunno how many > distros) We buy, or get given, another one. My suggestion is that we hold single copies of:- Knoppix DVD and CD. Ubuntu, Kubuntu & Mepis. Fedora and Mandriva. Plus any others you might care to mention. I have the 3 CDs of FreeBSD. PC-BSD might also be a possibility. You've got a disc haven't you? Gentoo is _not_ because it's too much hassle for Joe Six-Pack to get installed. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
