Loco Council, or an alternative idea of what it could be :)

[Richard A. Johnson]

On Saturday 29 September 2007, Dave Thacker wrote:
[...]
| I don't know why shipit declined our requests.  That process is as opaque
| as Ubuntu governance is open.   I'm currently raising money to print CD's
| for the LoCo when Hardy releases.   IMO, the process of obtaining CD's for
| LoCo use is broken, and I'm routing around it.  We will never be effective
| as a LoCo team if I don't.

I had to pay to have CDs cut and the Chicago team is an approved team. I think 
we received 500 Feisty CDs, and they were handed out as evenly as possible to 
our team members in just a few minutes. So we were out from day one. I had 
requested more CDs from ShipIt for a couple of local events and both times 
they were denied. So I paid to have CDs made as well, and it isn't cheap. It 
would actually be cheaper to purchase a CD duplicator that will even print 
the labels directly to the disc in the long run, which is something I am 
looking into now. My buddy purchased one off of ebay for his band, and he can 
burn about 1000 CDs easily in a day, with artwork. The CDs look really good 
as well, they don't look cheap. He paid anywhere from $1000 to $1500 for his 
setup, but he has made a ton on selling his CDs for $5 each at a show.

-- 
Richard A. Johnson
nixternal at ubuntu.com
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