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 distributing CDs. Rather when we go > to colleges, We give them a few, ask them to save the image in a PC > with CD burner and allow the students to burn CDs from the image, if > they are interested to try out.
++1 (I was about to post a similar email to the list) >When you distribute something free, everybody wants to get one for > them without even bothering whether it will be actually useful for > them. So, my advice would be to go for the Toaster, because they have > to buy a CD and burn it up. They will do only if they are really > interested in getting a CD, else won't mind. Thus we do not actually > waste Canonical's money on shipping CDs which are distributed to > people who have no real interest in making use of them. Canonical has > to spend around 80 Euros to send you the CDs, if am not wrong in > remembering the cost of sending us the CDs for foss.in. The money can > be otherwise used for useful causes. Even if you get it free, some > one else is paying for it. As a responsible Ubunteros, we have to > make the best use of facilities available to us, especially when it > involves some one else's money. Exactly!, and this should be read and understood by those who order CDs for free from Shipit or even those who share the URL with those who want to get it for free. These days, I recommend my friends to ask for a copy from me, and give it to them on a CD-R. Prateek, if you are organizing a talk, find out how many would be actually interested in learning about FOSS. Find out how many show interest to continue something in that domain. Most of my friends in college tend to slip back to windows, due to curriculum. Not because it is difficult for them, but just because, they don't have time to do something different from what they have been doing and they don't want to spend much time, even if they had to do so. -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
