arun's idea works for me though. due to continuous in-campus requests,
i'm still able to supply live media (i had excess of them from last
event) and make live USBs sometimes to those who prefer. local
contacts seem efficient in campuses for sure :) our techfest is around
the corner and i'm sure the foss stall will be laden with media
requests again!
On 9/23/10, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@gmail.com> wrote:On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 22:42 +0530, Arun Prakash wrote:Hello All,Hello Arun,Thank you for taking time to coming up with a suggestion to improve theFree media program.I found that contributors of Fedora are trying hard to drive the freemedia Program . I recently found the mail requesting contribution tofree media Program. Rather having to mail the CD/DVD with mailingcharges, they can send the CD/DVD to places near by . Is thatmandatory that a Ambassador should drive free media program ?You mean sending a bulk of media to certain contacts? This will alsocost money, and will probably cause wastage of media since few requestscome from locations that are near to each other : The holders of thesebulk media will in turn have to pay postage to at most times, thereforeit results in more cost, not less.Another factor is that volunteers of the free media program cannotproduce such media in such large amounts to supply. (if we could, wewouldn't be asking more folks to sign up ;) )Requests come from all parts of the country. Yes, a lot of them comefrom Bangalore and Pune but these are mostly handled by free mediacontributors from the respective cities.While it is not mandatory that an Ambassador be a free media contact,you have to have an FAS account and be part of the free media group tohave access to the free media trac (and mailing list).All the people who are available with the CD/DVD media can enrolthemselves to that media distribution program , If a person from thatlocality request free media , we can point them to the resourceholding person , so that the request is satisfied .This sounds like an integration of the free media and local contactprogrammes. This is one of the goals of the free media program, but itwill take sometime before this can be streamlined and implemented undera larger, lets say, "Get yourself a copy of Fedora" programme.I am also interested in Free media program , I feel this . Pleasesuggest me if I am wrong.Please sign up and accept two tickets a month. It's all we request ofyou :)You should continue this discussion along with any more ideas that youcan come up with, at the free media list[1] which is a more aptlocation. The members of the list are eager to participate in discussionaimed at improvements.Regards,Arun Prakash[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/freemedia--Thanks!Regards,Ankurhttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha"FranciscoD"