List,
I am against FREE cd sent by shipit service as most of them are going
waste. instead, the whole process should be made manual respective
LoCo teams should approve requests. this step would minimize waste of
resources. i myself tried distributing around 10 disc twice or thrice
first among my
[snip]
so now that we've saved a small tidy sum of money for canonical,
who could persuade them to spend that more fruitfully for the event?
your distro is free.
our blood, sweat, tears are free.
for everything else
there's canonical.
;-)
niyam bhushan
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Parthan SR wrote:
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Prakash Advani wrote:
Prateek,
I work for Canonical India and l can organise CDs for you for sure, cant
promise more but will try. Send me a personal email of how many you need.
Congratz Prakash (Jace just
On Jan 29, 2008 4:59 PM, Hardeep Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way, where is this fest happening? I'm a pretty much linux noob
myself (still learning), would love to attend it if its in Delhi..
Its in BITS-Pilani. The fest is called Apogee. www.bits-apogee.org
(Pilani is abt 6 hrs from
I am afraid that Canonical might not be ready to sponsor unless it has
commercial benefits for them. They will rather ask you to get the
support of Local community. May be you can try with Red Hat or Sun, but
they might expect you to provide them some stage space and privileges. I
am not
Canonical Did that for a College Event.. We got 100 Copies shipped to us to
give it away to students..
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On Jan 28, 2008 1:33 PM, Baishampayan Ghose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, if you are giving away CDs at a FOSS oriented event, I guess we
can ask Canonical to ship 500 odd CDs to you. Will that suffice?
That'd be great. Im afraid a special request at shipit might Actually
i was hoping that
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Prateek Sharma wrote:
On Jan 28, 2008 1:33 PM, Baishampayan Ghose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, if you are giving away CDs at a FOSS oriented event, I guess we
can ask Canonical to ship 500 odd CDs to you. Will that suffice?
That'd be great.
Hi Prateek,
On Jan 28, 2008 4:46 PM, Prateek Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone have any other ideas regarding how to attract crowds?? Actually
we are targeting two categories : the noobs, who havent installed
linux - the cds are for them ; and those who having been using it for
quite a
Hello,
First for disks, you probably know that, cd shiping time is too long around
one month or more.
Best idea, buy your own blank cds. prices are very low, mediam quality cds
are available for rs 5.00(inr).
And another answer for attacrt audience: Now days linux radically simple and
simple
On Jan 28, 2008 4:28 PM, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then, keep a CD burner open in all the Toaster
machines, people just pop-in their Empty CDs and get it burnt into
whatever Ubuntu version/arch they want.
gr8 !!!
will try to implement in my college :)
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Prateek Sharma wrote:
Hello everyone,
We have started a 'Linux Users Club' in my college BITS-Pilani. We
started out last semester in September. Just as is the case with
almost every LUG, our primary aim is to build and sustain a strong
community of Linux users on campus.
There
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Prakash Advani wrote:
Prateek,
I work for Canonical India and l can organise CDs for you for sure, cant
promise more but will try. Send me a personal email of how many you need.
Congratz Prakash (Jace just confirmed me the news ;) ).Hope Canonical
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 09:13, Parthan SR wrote:
IMHO, distributing Live CDs to students just as Free CDs doesn't solve
any purpose at all. We have been distributing CDs since breezy days,
but not even 5-10% of them actually use those CDs after the first
time. This made us actually stop
Hi guys,
You have a number of valid points in the discussion here, but I would
beg to differ from you on a couple of things.
The aim of giving free cds is to make it easier for people to start
using Ubuntu. The aim of giving free cds is not that more than 5-10%
should use is after the first
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Hi guys,
You have a number of valid points in the discussion here, but I would
beg to differ from you on a couple of things.
The aim of giving free cds is to make it easier for people to start
using Ubuntu. The aim of
Ah, the whole 'Shipit' dilemma.
Firstly, i'd like to say that i am strongly against people misusing
shipit, and have tried very hard to discourage people from ordering
the cds.
With this in mind, i hope everyone bears with me for a moment :
As almost all college-fests go these days, 'Apogee'
On Sunday 27 January 2008 18:50, Prateek Sharma wrote:
So, does anyone here know if companies like Canonical, Red Hat etc.
will be willing to help us out by providing us with CD's and other
merchandise to give away? Whom do i contact for the same? Will
Ubuntu-marketing be able to help?
On Jan 27, 2008 8:19 PM, Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Canonical seems to be too far to ask for help. The best you can do is
ask friends around in the campus who may have ordered CDs of Ubuntu
from shipit and collect those 'extra' CDs.
Alternatively, you could ask someone to SPONSOR the
On Jan 28, 2008 9:32 AM, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am afraid that Canonical might not be ready to sponsor unless it has
commercial benefits for them. They will rather ask you to get the
support of Local community. May be you can try with Red Hat or Sun, but
they might expect you
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