Shipping Karmic CDs for LoCo teams

[Dolev Ravid]

Dor, 
If you think that 2000 Discs for 5000 poor children's is too much so we
have a problem... It's sad that some how involved in the Israeli
community doesn't think about the Israeli poor child's.

Essentially,
CD's are cost money and I think that Canonical can save this money for a
lot of important development things that can make Ubuntu better.
If someone want to get ubuntu he just can burn some CD's... or he can
ask for CD's in the local community.

Have a good day,

Dolev Ravid
The head of the Israeli LoCo team
Mobile: +972-52-7022996



-----Original Message-----
From: דור דנקנר <d.dorda at gmail.com>
Reply-to: "Ubuntu local community team \(LoCo\) contacts"
<loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: loco-contacts at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Shipping Karmic CDs for LoCo teams
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:17:18 +0200

I'm very sad to hear you're going to do so.
few weeks ago out LoCo leader asked for 2000 discs (i agree it's a
little to much) for a very big event, but only 300 discs was sent to
him, when it got in Israel, he was asked to pay fees for the big amount
of discs or that Canonical will choose what to do, and they choose to
destroy all the discs. after many bureaucracy he got the discs, but
still it was almost unusable for the purpose it was supposed to be...


If that is the way i'll get discs from now and on (or anyone in our
country..) i'm not sure anyone will ask to get even one disc..
I just installed on my school Ubuntu, people were amazed to hear that i
got the installation disc absolutely for free. I believe this sending
discs for free is a very important part of the marketing of Ubuntu, and
I'm sure there are many other ways to reduce the number of the orders
without limiting the new users.


I thought about just filtering the orders, for example to send just one
disc of version for address, if someone in the same address will ask for
another disc he will see a message that says that the user X just
ordered a disc, and he may ask from him to use it or just download the
image file.


Ddorda.

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