On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 2:31 pm, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > Ripunjay's offer is excellent. This is a great gesture. With support > coming the library idea seems to be materializing. If you need any help, > such as stock them for sounth-mumbai or Chembur area do let me know.
Its nice to see the FSF-OS library taking off. But that still has some limitations, like one has to go the library and get the CDs. Then these are to returned too, which will add to hassle. Why not we start a on-list CD delivery scheme as I posted sometimes back. -------->> From one of my old post: What I feel is, one should not look at it as a major commercial initiative, its an affort done in good faith to popularize linux in India, not a way to make money. If that is so, we dont need all that formal mechanism. How about, someone [via a php script on ilug-bombays webpage or mailing list] posts a request for a CD.Someone from the list voulanteers to meet the request, gives his address, the concerned person sends a draft/cheque, and the volunteer cuts and couriers the CD. Its only 100 Rs or so max per request, so if someone voulanteers and runs away after getting money, he would only do it once with some loss of face. This will involve a repository of CDs or ISOs. Making available a variety of distribution to local users would be a great service. One can ask other LUGs for donation of CDs to initially build a nice archieve, and the list published on ilug-bombay homepage, along with the proposed mechanism, so that a person is aware of the risks before sending money, as well as list or number of requests successfully served by respective voulanteers to build the confidance. Its not essential, group can warn poeple if someone is eating money. If Kapil gets bored doing this, he can hand over his collection to other voulanteer, or even better we have more than one voulanteers from the begining. There are some 5-6 standard linux distributions, and tens of experimental/special purpose ones, Mumbai, as the biggest city of India, deserves easy access to them. ------> It assumes the voulanteer has an archieve of CDs and a CD-writer. Plus the voulanteer will be taking care of couriering the CDs. But I feel Rs 60 + Rs 30 X No of CDs ordered type of mechanism should give some financial incentive. [System may be totally bidding based, but I dont want the voulanteers to suffer, so we may get some bottom lines, and first voulanteer first option norms to keep things fair.] What others think about it? -- Amit Upadhyay Senior Undergraduate Student Department of Mechanical Engg. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai-76, India Phone: (91) 9820325940
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