On May 7, 2013 12:18 PM, "Donald Whytock" <dwhyt...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Jörg Schmidt <joe...@j-m-schmidt.de> wrote: > > > > From: dwhyt...@gmail.com [mailto:dwhyt...@gmail.com] On > > > it means the > > > installables plus all language packs would fit on a single > > > DVD, which could > > > then be custom-installed by anyone. > > > > But where could you offer the ISO file to download later? Because this is > > an > > international version, probably a lot of traffic will arise there. Ideas? > > > > I was actually thinking of contacting a publish-on-demand service. People > can buy it online and have it mailed to them. I'd estimate the cost to be > about US$6.00. A link could be put on the download page, to the effect of > "...or you can order a DVD." It would be more reputable than Ebay, and it > would cut down on the emails asking, "Someone's ebay-ing OpenOffice...is > that *legal*?"
This would be great if you could take this on Donald. I think if you searched the "dev" mail archives, you would see mention of at least some entities that could provide this kind of actual mailing. We've had several requests in the past for CDs. Hopefully these same folks could use DVDs as well. > > As for making the image itself available online, does Sourceforge handle > gig-size downloads?
