Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On 2/25/08, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, February 25, 2008 2:47 pm, Raffael wrote: >>> Here some comments: >>> - In these instructions it says that you charge $5 for a CD and $7.50 >>> for a dvd. I recommend to change that to a donation + costs price for a >>> medium, in case they don't bring their own. >>> >> I believe its a charge by St Albans Community Centre, not by CLUG. It is >> outside our control. > Not entirely. We can probably rejig the charge somewhat. > >> It does seem a little steep, but I have no problem >> with them selling blank media to prop up their undoubtedly tight finances.. >> The solution is to buy your own. > > I believe that both St Albans Community Centre, and CLUG have a moral > right to make a small charge to run a Linux distribution reproduction > service. There are a number of overheads which have to be covered the > obvious one being the electricity needed to run the server. > > The St Albans Community Centre charges the general public a base rate > of $2 per hour for access to a machine, and $1 for a CD. That means > that there is a base charge of $3 for a Linux Distro. on CD. This is > only very slightly more expensive than getting the data via http or > ftp using a retail broadband provider, and it's very approximately > half the cost of a bitttorrent download. For DVD volumes it's > considerably cheaper than using your ISP. I thought that it would be > fair to have a $2 component for CLUG which results in the $5 charge. > > If the membership really thinks there is an error in my rough and > ready reasoning to come to a price please let me know.
I just think that it is not about making money. If they offer to sell cds, it's fine if they round it to a nice price. I also don't think that $5/7.5 is an awfull lot of money. But the Community Center doesn't "charge" for computer/internet use, they _suggest a donation_. I think we should do the same. Just a matter of wording... and if someone can't/doesn't want to pay, so what? We spread free software, and that is good. Cheers, Raffael And before we calculate how much electricity the server uses ;) we should advertise the linux-toaster a bit more. Maybe we can take some ideas from the freedomtoaster.org project
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