status of the free mailout

[Akash Mehta]

On 8/14/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://draicone.googlepages.com/index.html
>
> Above url: a draft, simple design. It would probably be easier to just
> adapt the current ubuntu-au design (or use it as it is; this cant be a
> copyright violation since the page is being hosted on the same site
> for a relevant purpose, and last time I checked it all qualifies as
> fair use anyway). It currently uses my email for everything, please
> tell me what I should add to it and if I should add a 'Thank you, your
> order is being processed.' page (PayPal sends the customer to this
> after a succesful transaction).
>
> Akash
>
>
> On 8/14/06, Akash Mehta <draicone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 8/14/06, Andrew Swinn <andrew at swinndesign.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > How about putting them on Ebay with a buy it now price just to cover the
> > > > postage and/or setting up a paypal account for donations that may cover
> > > > a few to be sent for free at a local level.
> > >
> > > Excellent idea! We need a local Ubuntu on-line shop.
> > > So.. how do we make this happen?
> > I'll start some preliminary designs, but I don't have much time so I
> > may just adapt something like an OSWD template. Who runs the mailouts,
> > or who does everyone nominate as treasurer? Whoever it is, I'll need
> > their PayPal email, and it would be good if William Grant could give
> > me access to a subfolder on ubuntu.com.au or something so that I can
> > set up example designs for everyone (alternatively, I'll put it all on
> > my googlepages.com account and move it to the server later).
> >
> > Akash
> >
> > On 8/14/06, Jeff Waugh <jdub at perkypants.org> wrote:
> > > <quote who="Pete Brown">
> > >
> > > > So if we had a businesses in most of the capital cities that can help with
> > > > this then we could put it in place?
> > >
> > > Consider that from Canonical's point of view, dealing with > 5 companies for
> > > a population of 20M would not scale well, particularly when distribution and
> > > production of CDs is not the main business of those companies.
> > >
> > > Turns out it's hard to compete with the economy of scale that Canonical gets
> > > doing shipit centrally, no matter how good your intentions. :-)
> > >
> > > - Jeff
> > >
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