> Hi Jared, > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Jared Norris <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good afternoon all, >> >> In the interests of transparency I thought I would let you all know >> that the all of the spare CDs have been now been distributed amongst >> the community. Over the past few weeks the Ubuntu-AU team has been >> able to send bulk CDs to: >> >> Sydney - to be distributed amongst high school IT students - thanks >> Matthew Boden! >> Melbourne - to be used for the Ubuntu-AU ongoing CD distribution >> efforts and also for use with groups like Computer Bank & Linux Users >> Victoria (LUV) - good work Peter Baker! >> Brisbane - donated to Home Unix Brisbane User Group (HUMBUG) to use to >> distribute to new IT students at various O week functions in the >> coming week as part of their efforts. >> >> Paul Gear had been organising a sticker order for the team as well so >> when that seemed to fall through somewhere along the line we were able >> to make up the order from the CDs and sticker left overs. I'm lead to >> believe these have all now been distributed as well, good work Paul, >> sounds like you were able to get a heap of them out. >> >> I apologise for making these decisions quickly but with less than 2 >> months before the new release which will make these CDs obsolete I >> wanted to make the best use of them as quickly as possible. I'm now >> confident the vast majority of the CDs we had leftover will not be >> sitting in someone's garage or bedroom cupboard just waiting to be >> used but will now actually be put to good use as they were intended to >> by Canonical. > > Agreed! Even doubly so! > > Having been involved in some other open source events, the worse case > scenario is when the CD/DVDs are sitting in someone's Lounge room > untill they complain that they are taking up space. They miss the > point where they are not supposed to be sitting in someone's > house/workplace! Don't laugh it has happened! I'd say that the CD's > have a useful life of maybe a month or two, perhaps a little longer if > the recipient is still on dial up or 3G connection. > > > If someone believes that the left over media should have been > distributed differently, speak up and perhaps it can be addressed for > next year. > Next event is the 10.04 release party?? > > Regards > > > George > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >
Unless you want a special gathering for the release of 10.04.2, I think the next one should be 11.04 :P -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
