Gratis CDs

[Andrew Hunter]

On Monday 18 December 2006 19:45, Kyle Vanditmars wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:39 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > On 12/18/06, Kyle Vanditmars <kylevan at telus.net> wrote:
> > > So I've added my plan to start an advocacy campaign at school to the
> > > wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/ApprovalApplication/) but I
> > > have a question.
> > >
> > > If/when I'm able to get ahold of some Ubuntu CDs, and set up a little
> > > "giveaway" area, I'm wondering if it would be "okay" to include
> > > something like the OpenCD in the same place.  The browser thing that
> > > pops up when you pop an Ubuntu CD into a running Windows system is a
> > > little light on content, and I think it would be particularly good to
> > > introduce people to OpenOffice.org and the other "heavyweight" FOSS
> > > programs even if they perhaps aren't ready/willing to install Ubuntu
> > > yet.  The argument's been made many times that getting people
> > > accustomed to the applications will make the switch that much easier.
> > >
> > > My only concern is that the costs would probably be prohibitive to get
> > > "professional" looking copies of the CD (they're $1.75 each from
> > > http://linuxcd.org/,) and while I'm not averse to burning a 50-cd
> > > spindle myself, people might be averse to taking one with some of my
> > > scrawl across the front.
> > >
> > > Thoughts? Suggestions?
> >
> > Ever tried to load an Ubuntu LiveCD in Windows?  It will start a
> > subset of the OpenCD; last time I checked it contained the installer
> > of the Windows version of applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp
> > and a few others.
> >
> > So maybe for your needs you don't need to get the actual full-fledged
> > OpenCD on a seperate CD, but the Ubuntu LiveCD would be enough to give
> > to people as long as they know that it is not only a linux distro, but
> > it also contains open source apps that would work in Windows.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Robitaille
>
> I did pop my Ubuntu 6.10 CD into my sister's XP computer before mailing
> initially, and your choices are FireFox, T-bird, Abiword, Gaim and GIMP.
> I guess the main thing that's lacking is OOo, as I'm sure a lot of
> people like to hang on to the "what about office?" excuse - despite
> using maybe 10% of the features in Word, never mind the rest of the
> suite.
>
> Anyway, I'll just start with getting Ubuntu CDs there, and posters
> around campus.

Contact Corey (I am sure he is reading this) and see if he can get you an 
expedited shipment of cds from Canonical. (Are we officially a local team 
yet?)

-- 
"First, God created idiots. But that was just for practise, then he made 
school boards."
   -Mark Twain 
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