Fwd: Ubuntu ShipIt

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@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