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How many people do you have donating time ? How are you collecting money to pay for the CD's ? Just some questions!! On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Jared Norris <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Scott! > > This is a great response so far. We don't have many orders so far (I > realise as we get closer to release that will increase) but I'm now > confident of at least filling all the orders we do get. I've added you > to the spreadsheet (and don't worry, donations of timer or money are > both very useful as some people have one and not the other). > > So anyone not easily able to download new releases, let me know and > I'll record your order. > > Regards, > > Jared > > > On 18 March 2010 09:38, Scott McKean <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Jared, > > > > I'll put up the funds for 40 cd's ($100) but I don't have the time to > > post out that many. > > > > Let me know where we go from here. Thanks for your time, > > > > -Scott > > > > On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 18:46 +1000, Jared Norris wrote: > >> Good Evening, > >> > >> Thanks everyone for the responses. I probably didn't explain it all > >> too well last night but I realise there are services out there > >> charging nominal fees for CDs but I was thinking of trying to get it > >> to the regional (and those unable to access boradband easily) a > >> quicker, FREE way to get a copy of Lucid Lynx (even if the fee is > >> nominal it's sometimes means people won't opt for it because it is not > >> always easy to transfer the funds wihtout effort). It's not meant to > >> replace the "official" CDs but just trying to speed up the process > >> (and who as a home user really NEEDS and official CD?). I was going to > >> offer this free to anyone and everyone all by myself but realised it > >> might chalk up some costs but if more people were willing to chip in > >> then it would spread it out. Thank you James for your offer I've noted > >> it down and anyone else willing to chip in please drop me a line > >> (again either on the list or off, also on IRC). I just thought it > >> would be a nice way to quickly and cheaply spread the Ubuntu cheer. > >> > >> So I guess this is a shoutout now to those of you on the list who do > >> not have access to broadband easily, please start letting me know if > >> you want a free burnt copy of lucid lynx. It's a LTS so it should be > >> pretty stable from release (touch wood) and I'm willing to take orders > >> of which version of Ubuntu you want (k/x/ed/ubuntu) just nothing too > >> obscure please. All details will be kept confidential (obvious > >> whomever ends up posting you the CD will need an address, PO BOX is > >> fine) so feel free to email me off the list or message me on IRC. > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Jared Norris > >> > >> > >> > >> On 16 March 2010 07:17, James Beake <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Sounds like a nice way to provide a value add for regional Aus and I'm > happy > >> > to be part of the experiment. > >> > > >> > I'm prepared to fund $20 worth of CDs. Ie, I''ll burn / ship 8 CDs > @2.50 > >> > each. More if the potage is less :) > >> > > >> > Is there any Ubuntu CD art work we can access? > >> > > >> > cheers > >> > James > >> > > >> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Jared Norris <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Good evening all, > >> >> > >> >> With the release of Lucid Lynx approaching us sooner rather than > later > >> >> one idea I had that I would like to put out there to the mailing list > >> >> was a bit of a Shipit type service (see https://shipit.ubuntu.com/for > >> >> the official version) that aims at delivering the new release much > >> >> sooner than the quoted 10 weeks from the website. What I am proposing > >> >> is that some users in metropolitan Australia with quicker download > >> >> speeds and higher download quota limits burn a copy of the new > release > >> >> and then post it to another user who might be stuck on dial up or > >> >> regional 3G services with very low download limits. > >> >> > >> >> I would like to see if this sort of a service would be useful to our > >> >> regional users or not and I would also be willing to coordinate this > >> >> service. I have costed the idea and to post a CD to anywhere in > >> >> Australia from anywhere in Australia would cost $2.50 (this includes > >> >> the packaging and the postage costs) and also the cost the CD itself. > >> >> How this would be paid would be dependant upon how many people were > >> >> wanting this service and how many people were willing to help out. > >> >> > >> >> If you are interested please feel free to either drop me an email (on > >> >> or off the list I don't mind) or pop into IRC (as explained > >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/IRC - I'm usually lurking, my > >> >> nick is head_victim) and just send me a message. > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > ubuntu-au mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > >> > > >> > > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >
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