Chris, fact of the matter is nobody can ever cater for 100% audience. We ecourage people to burn their own cd's so while handing them out to a class, say take one among a group of students and share it or copy it, or here's where to download the cd.
Laura -- http://www.lczajkowski.com http://wiki.ubuntu.com/czajkowski skype: lauraczajkowski --------- Original Message -------- From: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts <loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com> To: Ubuntu local community team LoCo contacts <loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Re: ShipIt Requests For LoCo Team Events Date: 17/12/09 11:33 > 2009/12/17 Alan Pope <a...@popey.com>: > > 2009/12/17 Laura Czajkowski <la...@lczajkowski.com>: > >> To encourage people who've never had a cd before they would get preference > >> as if you're using Ubuntu you're more than likely be able to burn a cd. > >> It&rsquo;s not feasible to sustain sending 100&rsquo;s of cd&rsquo;s. There is of course the > >> option to recive the Pack B for Non-Approved Loco Teams contain > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAtConferences > >> > > > > It does kind of make a mockery of the whole idea of approving LoCo > > teams if an unapproved one can get a bunch of CDs - and still have 130 > > left over - and still order another 200. I can't help but think it's a > > little unfair on those teams which the Community Council and LoCo > > Council have approved over the years. > > > > Cheers, > > Al. > > > First of all, apologies to Maria for spelling her name wrong in my > reply, I have obviously been playing too many video games in my time. > As for popey's and Jan's responses to the issue, yes it may seem > like the request is huge and completely unneccessary however with > around 300 discs, we will only be catering for 1% of the attendees of > the event and I'm sure as anything hoping that we can at least get an > extra 50 community members out of the 300 or so people that we manage > to talk to regarding Ubuntu and eventually help by giving them a > professional looking disc. In reality it matters not whether or not > your status is "official" when both official and unofficial LoCos have > the drive to build up their communities and to help spread a good word > about their favourite distribution to people who are interested in > technology. > > Regards, > Chris. > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > ________________________________________________ Message sent using UebiMiau 2.7.10 -- loco-contacts mailing list loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
