DVD's or not? (was Re: Rrrrolling Rrreleases

[Pablo Rubianes]

Hi, i must say that if we have problems with DVDs/CDs at customs USB drives
will be a nightmare here.
Also as Laura said languages are a problems, but promotional stuff as stickers,
lanyard, keyrings or pens could be more productive like DVDs in terms of
promotion.

Pablo


2013/3/3 Zied ALAYA <zied.alaya at ubuntu.com>

> hi Laura,
> in my personnel experience , users was more interested into stickers
> (différent type) then CD.
>
> it makes a permanent  publicity too.
>
> I think we can have some useful  materials for any loco without
> customization.
>
> Cordialement
> Zied ALAYA
> Le 3 mars 2013 09:58, "Laura Czajkowski" <laura at lczajkowski.com> a écrit :
>
>>
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>> On 01/03/13 15:46, Randall Ross wrote:
>> > On 13-03-01 06:50 AM, Alan Bell wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> as you have probably seen there has been discussion opened up about
>> >> having a rolling release between the LTS releases. My guess is that
>> >> this means the approved LoCo teams would get a CD pack to distribute
>> >> every two years rather than every 6 months. Anyone know if this is a
>> >> good guess, and does anyone have an opinion on this?
>> >>
>> >> Personally I am fine with that, it would be good to have a slightly
>> >> bigger shipment of desktop DVDs every two years (I have no idea why we
>> >> ever press the Server CDs) distributing them every 6 months is kind of
>> >> inefficient, this way the LTS will have more long term relevance as a
>> >> pressed DVD.
>> >>
>> >> Alan.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > I would like to see DVD media phased out totally, and the funds used for
>> > something that will help spread Ubuntu more quickly. (e.g. marketing
>> > materials).
>> >
>> > In my experience free CD's/DVD's no longer help drive Ubuntu adoption. I
>> > have also received comments from my local community about their negative
>> > environmental impact and I share those concerns.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Randall.
>> >
>> >
>> Hi,
>>
>> What kind of marketing material were you thinking about?  As when this
>> has come up in the past at previous UDS sessions it was mooted due to cost
>> of printing shipping, languages available/not available and keeping
>> material up to date.   The same could be said about the environment about
>> printed material, it could too also become a negative impact on the
>> environment.
>>
>> Laura
>>
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>> Community Council Member
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