Fwd: Ubuntu ShipIt

[Justin Dugger]

A few lunches ago, someone jokingly suggested putting an Ubuntu CD in every
dorm room as a way to get rid of
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.

So at this point we have a few choices:
* Make do with the 200 they've offered
* Make our own from CD-Rs and labels
* Ask for more from the right people within Ubuntu
* Find sponsorship from local and Ubuntu related interests (ie Canonical,
maybe Dell)

So what's needed from the LUG now is opinions on the options, and of course
alternative suggestions.

Justin Dugger

On 5/7/07, Marilize Coetzee <info at shipit.ubuntu.com > wrote:
>
> Hi Justin
>
> Thank you for contacting us.
>
> This is a wonderful idea, but unfortunately we cannot send you such a
> large number of CD's.
> The best I can do is 200.
> If you are interested, place an order on Shipit and use my name as
> reason for ordering.
> https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
>
> Kind regards
> Marilize
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>         I'm a member of Kansas State University's LUG, and we were
>         thinking
>         about promoting Linux usage on campus via Ubuntu.  Personally, I
>         use
>         Ubuntu on all my computers and at the research lab, but our LUG
>         is more
>         diverse, involving gentoo devs and users of various other
>         platforms.
>         Still, the entire LUG seems to agree that Ubuntu is a great
>         match for
>         people new to linux, and we've handed out Dapper and Breezy CDs
>         at
>         previous events.
>
>         We're thinking of doing something far more massive, potentially
>         using over a 1000 CDs. We'd like to see about getting an Ubuntu
>         CD
>         placed in the care package the dorms place in students rooms at
>         the
>         beginning of the school year.  Do you think our LUG needs to
>         form a
>         LoCo subgroup first to be considered for something on this
>         scale?  One
>         thing I want to avoid is converting our LUG into a tool to
>         promote a
>         single platform, even if it's very good for some of our purposes
>         ^_^
>
>         I of course realize that this bulk request of CDs may be
>         rejected as
>         inefficient and AOL-like.  The original idea came up as a way to
>         dispense with the bulk CDs we've all purchased but realized
>         we'll
>         never use, and it occurred to me that shipIt might be a viable
>         avenue
>         for this, with excellent labels and inserts to boot.
>
>         Justin Dugger
>
>
>
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