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[David Drury]

Ok James et al,
Rather than limiting this project lets expand it... 

Would you think that Linux Australia (as represented by its committee) would 
agree that a service to distribute Linux to the community (most specifically 
Australia, New Zealand) would be a valuable service to sponser.Maybe we can 
set up the Linux Distribution network. Funding required would be for the 
shipping costs, the storage space for ISOs and the media costs, assuming 
time is voluntarily given. 

I am a member of a few linux lists and a common request is for Linux Distro 
CDs for major distros (off the top of my head, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, 
Gentoo, Mandduck (or whatever they are now), Suse). 

Maybe an ongoing grant could be for ongoing supply of Distro CDs to the 
comunity ! 

Thoughts ? 

James Purser writes: 

> Okay, I'm going to step in with my Linux Australia Grants Tsar hat on. 
> 
> Firstly I have to make it clear that Linux Australia has to be distro
> neutral, this means we can't be seen to favour one distro over another.
> Secondly you guys are going to have to show the community how having a
> local distributor for ubuntu benefits everyone in the community, and
> you'll probably have to do it beyond "Its faster than shipit". 
> 
> I'm not trying to rain on your parade, by all means make the grant
> request, all requests are looked over for a two week period by the
> membership before a decision is made by the committee. I just think
> you're best served by being aware of some of the issues that the request
> may face.
> -- 
> James Purser
> Ordinary Committee Member
> Linux Australia
 


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David Drury
Network Administrator
Peregrine Corporation
"He's mostly dead, Jim. Get Miracle Max"