On Friday 28 September 2007 04:06, Jono Bacon wrote: > How is it hard to get CDs? You mail ShipIt. As for event boxes? What do > you mean? If you mean boxes for running events that are shipped out to > teams with marketing hardware, they don't exist yet, they are just an > idea. Do you honestly think it will be cheaper for you to produce short > runs of Ubuntu CDs than for us to place orders for hundreds of thousands > of them?
I appreciate Canonical's willingness to send a free CD to anyone. We don't want a repeat of pepople using CD's for wallpaper or destroying them for YouTube videos. The process personally broke down for me when: 1. As a LoCo, we need to show a consistent pattern of advocating Ubuntu to become approved. 2. I realized that in order for our LoCo to be successful, we needed to have CD's available any time we held an Ubuntu event. 3. I realized that to but the best foot foward for Ubuntu, and to attract new users to Ubuntu, we should be handing out offically printed and packaged CD's. 4. Since my LoCo is not approved I am unable to obtain free CD's. My Shipit requests were declined. I attempted to make arrangements with approved teams in the US to get a few CD leftover from their shipments. They have not had any to spare. I am back at step 1. I don't know why shipit declined our requests. That process is as opaque as Ubuntu governance is open. I'm currently raising money to print CD's for the LoCo when Hardy releases. IMO, the process of obtaining CD's for LoCo use is broken, and I'm routing around it. We will never be effective as a LoCo team if I don't. Dave Thacker Admin, Nebraska Ubuntu LoCo Team -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
