Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On a related note, is my count off, or do we really only *need* to give > out 2 CDs for most architectures? Granted, having source and contrib CDs > on hand is nice and/or politically correct, but are they really necessary > as freebies? The complete Debian *m

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 02:49:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On a related note, is my count off, or do we really only *need* to give > out 2 CDs for most architectures? Granted, having source and contrib CDs > on hand is nice and/or politically correct, but are they really necessary > as fr

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread renfro
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:10:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > > What I'm wondering is if we could make arrangements with them for > > something that would involve us paying for some of the CDs so we'd have > > more. At LinuxWorld, we really did no

Re: NDN(2): Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 03:53:48PM -0600, Post Office wrote: > Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: > > Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.) Hey - this is _really_ clever - it's noticed the NDN bit and added a count so it can keep track of how many times it goes round the mail l

NDN(2): Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-25 Thread Post Office
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NDN: Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-24 Thread Post Office
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Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-24 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 24, Joey Hess wrote: > (That money is still here with me. I've tried twice now to get > someone from SPI tell me where to mail it, with no luck. What's up > with the SPI treasurer?) I dunno (I know I saw something about finding a replacement on the SPI site or something). I sent a donation

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Adrian Bridgett wrote: > How about having a donation box. Debian is a registered charity after all. > With a suggested donation of a couple of dollars? I appreciate that this > might be against the freebie policy, but would serve three purposes: > a) disuade people who just pick it up because it

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-23 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:10:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: [snip] > Yes, but we tend to run out quickly, too quickly. A bit of reference, > CD's (usually a CD sells for about US$2, they cost US$.43 to make last > time I checked---for a run of 1000), well their donations are pretty > significan

Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies

1999-05-22 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:24:59AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Would you say then that paying for a big booth is NOT worth a lot of > > money but paying for a big enough stack of CDs that people who want them > > can have them is? > > Between linux central and cheap bytes the debian booths