A few lunches ago, someone jokingly suggested putting an Ubuntu CD in every dorm room as a way to get rid of<br>all my spare CD-Rs I'm never gonna use. Since the people present were receptive to the idea, I decided to follow up on it. The Ubuntu people responded positively, but balked at the number we'd need.
<br><br>So at this point we have a few choices:<br>* Make do with the 200 they've offered<br>* Make our own from CD-Rs and labels<br>* Ask for more from the right people within Ubuntu<br>* Find sponsorship from local and Ubuntu related interests (ie Canonical, maybe Dell)
<br><br>So what's needed from the LUG now is opinions on the options, and of course alternative suggestions.<br><br>Justin Dugger<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marilize Coetzee
</b> <<a href="mailto:info@shipit.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">info@shipit.ubuntu.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Justin<br><br>Thank you for contacting us.<br><br>This is a wonderful idea, but unfortunately we cannot send you such a
<br>large number of CD's.<br>The best I can do is 200.<br>If you are interested, place an order on Shipit and use my name as<br>reason for ordering.<br><a href="https://shipit.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
https://shipit.ubuntu.com/</a>
<br><br>Kind regards<br>Marilize<br><br><br><br><br>Hi,<br><br> I'm a member of Kansas State University's LUG, and we were<br> thinking<br> about promoting Linux usage on campus via Ubuntu. Personally, I
<br> use<br> Ubuntu on all my computers and at the research lab, but our LUG<br> is more<br> diverse, involving gentoo devs and users of various other<br> platforms.<br> Still, the entire LUG seems to agree that Ubuntu is a great
<br> match for<br> people new to linux, and we've handed out Dapper and Breezy CDs<br> at<br> previous events.<br><br> We're thinking of doing something far more massive, potentially
<br> using over a 1000 CDs. We'd like to see about getting an Ubuntu<br> CD<br> placed in the care package the dorms place in students rooms at<br> the<br> beginning of the school year. Do you think our LUG needs to
<br> form a<br> LoCo subgroup first to be considered for something on this<br> scale? One<br> thing I want to avoid is converting our LUG into a tool to<br> promote a<br> single platform, even if it's very good for some of our purposes
<br> ^_^<br><br> I of course realize that this bulk request of CDs may be<br> rejected as<br> inefficient and AOL-like. The original idea came up as a way to<br> dispense with the bulk CDs we've all purchased but realized
<br> we'll<br> never use, and it occurred to me that shipIt might be a viable<br> avenue<br> for this, with excellent labels and inserts to boot.<br><br> Justin Dugger<br><br><br></blockquote>
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