status of the free mailout

[David Drury]

Greetings, 

Linux Australia will give grants for linux related projects. This seems a 
worthy cause, so I doubt that they'd have much objection to approving a 
grant. Details on http://www.linux.org.au 

cya 

Akash Mehta writes: 

> As someone else suggested, we could accept donations and arrange a 
> donation
> system (paypal?), I'd be happy to help set up a web based donation system 
> if
> a long standing member (or yourself) has a PayPal account. 
> 
> Akash 
> 
> On 8/13/06, Peter baker <jellyware at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> hey guys 
>> 
>> the local mailout of free install discs has been suspended till further
>> notice.  I have been doing it as a free community service for the last 
>> few
>> months, and now it is at a stage where its starting to be too big for me 
>> to
>> handle 
>> 
>> yesterday we had 4 requests for ubuntu cd's to be mailed out.  for a long
>> time there we were averaging 1 a day, but suddenly this has shot up to 
>> 2-3 a
>> day.  this gets kinda expensive. 
>> 
>> I quite enjoy doing the actual mailing, its the financial side I don't
>> like.  so if anyone has any suggestions on how to raise money for the
>> mailout I'm all ears 
>> 
>> peter (my email address on the wiki and ubuntu.com.au is
>> sydneypete at gmail.com) 
>> 
>> --
>> www.peterbaker.id.au
>> Registered Linux user # 420363 
>> 
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>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au 
>> 
>>  
>> 
 


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David Drury
Network Administrator
Peregrine Corporation
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