Robert, I'd like 25-50 discs to distribute to colleagues and family who have a real desire in switching to Linux as well as a supply to give away whenever a professional looking disc would make an impact.
-Jack On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Darkwing Duck <[email protected]>wrote: > Can I also put in a request for kubuntu CDs for camp-KDE in jan? Ill be > able to hand out a bunch. > > DW > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant Bowman <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 13:24:11 > To: Ubuntu US California<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Pressed Canonical CD distribution > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Robert Wall > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > > > We recently received a shipment of professionally-pressed Ubuntu > > Karmic CDs from Canonical and have to figure out what to do with them. > > We have the following quantities of CDs to work with: > > > > * Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop (32-bit): 250 > > * Kubuntu 9.10 Desktop (32-bit): 75 > > * Ubuntu 9.10 Server (64-bit): 75 > > > > We set aside 100 Ubuntu Desktop CDs (and 25 each of Kubuntu and > > Server) for SCaLE in February, which leaves 150 Desktop CDs (and 50 > > each of Kubuntu and Server) for us to work with. After SCaLE, we'll > > take another look at our CD situation and redistribute accordingly. > > > > To make distribution easier, Neal and I have split the CDs, so we > > should be able to get them to anyone in the state reasonably easily. > > > > We have about 5 months left to distribute these CDs before 10.04 comes > > out, so I'd like to get a start on distributing them. Reply to this > > on-list if you think you'll need more than a few at a time for > > something; if not, contact Neal or me directly so we can arrange to > > get some to you. > > > > ~ Robert > > Neal, can you please send requests asking for CDs for both the SCaLE > (at least 100) and CLS West (100) events in the next two weeks? This > way existing reserves can be used for other purposes. I've given away > about 50 burned copies already and continue to give away burned > copies. I understand the reasoning for rationing, but I do not > understand the reasoning behind not even asking for CDs for legitimate > events. > > Robert, any help you can provide in the way of discs would be most > appreciated unless you have other plans for them already. I hope you > are able to fulfill Aaditya's request. Every time I go to a user > group I give away three or more depending on the subjective estimate > that I always make about them getting used. I am working with the > Berkeley LUG on several upcoming events and projects, SFSU on a series > of 12 seminars on open source and visit many of the groups listed on > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UserGroupContacts/Groups > on an ongoing basis. I have not tallied up a total request, I simply > burn as many as I can to keep up with demand. This takes significant > time, effort and money but has in my subjective view been very > successfully received. As I said, I'm sure I will give away at least > 250 before the Lucid release with or without pressed copies. > > Thank you, > > Grant Bowman > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >
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