Left over CDs from the LCA 2011 Open Day

[Joel Pickett]

> Hi Jared,
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good afternoon all,
>>
>> In the interests of transparency I thought I would let you all know
>> that the all of the spare CDs have been now been distributed amongst
>> the community. Over the past few weeks the Ubuntu-AU team has been
>> able to send bulk CDs to:
>>
>> Sydney - to be distributed amongst high school IT students - thanks
>> Matthew Boden!
>> Melbourne - to be used for the Ubuntu-AU ongoing CD distribution
>> efforts and also for use with groups like Computer Bank & Linux Users
>> Victoria (LUV) - good work Peter Baker!
>> Brisbane - donated to Home Unix Brisbane User Group (HUMBUG) to use to
>> distribute to new IT students at various O week functions in the
>> coming week as part of their efforts.
>>
>> Paul Gear had been organising a sticker order for the team as well so
>> when that seemed to fall through somewhere along the line we were able
>> to make up the order from the CDs and sticker left overs. I'm lead to
>> believe these have all now been distributed as well, good work Paul,
>> sounds like you were able to get a heap of them out.
>>
>> I apologise for making these decisions quickly but with less than 2
>> months before the new release which will make these CDs obsolete I
>> wanted to make the best use of them as quickly as possible. I'm now
>> confident the vast majority of the CDs we had leftover will not be
>> sitting in someone's garage or bedroom cupboard just waiting to be
>> used but will now actually be put to good use as they were intended to
>> by Canonical.
>
> Agreed! Even doubly so!
>
> Having been involved in some other open source events, the worse case
> scenario is when the CD/DVDs are sitting in someone's Lounge room
> untill they complain that they are taking up space. They miss the
> point where they are not supposed to be sitting in someone's
> house/workplace! Don't laugh it has happened! I'd say that the CD's
> have a useful life of maybe a month or two, perhaps a little longer if
> the recipient is still on dial up or 3G connection.
>
>
> If someone believes that the left over media should have been
> distributed differently, speak up and perhaps it can be addressed for
> next year.
> Next event is the 10.04 release party??
>
> Regards
>
>
> George
>
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Unless you want a special gathering for the release of 10.04.2, I think
the next one should be 11.04 :P