Dolev,
I'm curious about your program for distribution among the poor. How
do these "poor" have access to computers? If each is expecting a CD
then each must have a computer to install it on. I'm trying to get my
head around this idea because I live on the border between Texas and
Mexico and we are surround by genuinely poor people who could really use
computer access for a multitude of reasons. But none are equipped with
computers and we have been directing them to the Library in Mission TX
where there are numerous Linux based computers available.
If I can glean some of your concepts I might be able to put them
into effect here as well.
John Abbott, Chairman
Tip of Texas LUG
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 21:56 +0200, Dolev Ravid wrote:
> Alex,
> The "event" is an important program that marketing Ubuntu among poor
> population strata.
>
> Good day
> Dolev Ravid
> The head of the Israeli LoCo team.
>
> mobile: +972-527022996
> mail: do...@shezif.co.il
>
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> From: Alex Lourie <djay...@gmail.com>
> Reply-to: "Ubuntu local community team \(LoCo\) contacts"
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> To: Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts
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> Subject: Re: Shipping Karmic CDs for LoCo teams
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:57:03 +0200
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> Dor
>
> I think that you overestimate a bit. If you organize "burning" event
> at some kind of Linux show or conference, I think a lot of people
> would agree to pay up for the media. And it would still be very cheap
> - how much the media could cost? Simple check on zap reveals that you
> can get a 50 pack for 32 NIS, which makes about .60 per disk. In
> addition, you can tell people to bring the CD with them, or ask
> sponsors of the even to help a bit with this.
>
> What was that event btw?
>
> Alex.
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:17 AM, דור דנקנר <d.do...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I'm very sad to hear you're going to do so.
> few weeks ago out LoCo leader asked for 2000 discs (i agree
> it's a little to much) for a very big event, but only 300
> discs was sent to him, when it got in Israel, he was asked to
> pay fees for the big amount of discs or that Canonical will
> choose what to do, and they choose to destroy all the discs.
> after many bureaucracy he got the discs, but still it was
> almost unusable for the purpose it was supposed to be...
>
>
> If that is the way i'll get discs from now and on (or anyone
> in our country..) i'm not sure anyone will ask to get even one
> disc..
> I just installed on my school Ubuntu, people were amazed to
> hear that i got the installation disc absolutely for free. I
> believe this sending discs for free is a very important part
> of the marketing of Ubuntu, and I'm sure there are many other
> ways to reduce the number of the orders without limiting the
> new users.
>
>
> I thought about just filtering the orders, for example to send
> just one disc of version for address, if someone in the same
> address will ask for another disc he will see a message that
> says that the user X just ordered a disc, and he may ask from
> him to use it or just download the image file.
>
>
> Ddorda.
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