A local Shipit service for regional users

[Andrew Gaydon]

Not everybody subscribes to the mail list.
We need to get a notice on the website & Facebook.

How many people do you have donating time ?
How are you collecting money to pay for the CD's ?

Just some questions!!

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Scott!
>
> This is a great response so far. We don't have many orders so far (I
> realise as we get closer to release that will increase) but I'm now
> confident of at least filling all the orders we do get. I've added you
> to the spreadsheet (and don't worry, donations of timer or money are
> both very useful as some people have one and not the other).
>
> So anyone not easily able to download new releases, let me know and
> I'll record your order.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jared
>
>
> On 18 March 2010 09:38, Scott McKean <scott at epochlabs.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi Jared,
> >
> > I'll put up the funds for 40 cd's ($100) but I don't have the time to
> > post out that many.
> >
> > Let me know where we go from here. Thanks for your time,
> >
> > -Scott
> >
> > On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 18:46 +1000, Jared Norris wrote:
> >> Good Evening,
> >>
> >> Thanks everyone for the responses. I probably didn't explain it all
> >> too well last night but I realise there are services out there
> >> charging nominal fees for CDs but I was thinking of trying to get it
> >> to the regional (and those unable to access boradband easily) a
> >> quicker, FREE way to get a copy of Lucid Lynx (even if the fee is
> >> nominal it's sometimes means people won't opt for it because it is not
> >> always easy to transfer the funds wihtout effort).  It's not meant to
> >> replace the "official" CDs but just trying to speed up the process
> >> (and who as a home user really NEEDS and official CD?). I was going to
> >> offer this free to anyone and everyone all by myself but realised it
> >> might chalk up some costs but if more people were willing to chip in
> >> then it would spread it out. Thank you James for your offer I've noted
> >> it down and anyone else willing to chip in please drop me a line
> >> (again either on the list or off, also on IRC). I just thought it
> >> would be a nice way to quickly and cheaply spread the Ubuntu cheer.
> >>
> >> So I guess this is a shoutout now to those of you on the list who do
> >> not have access to broadband easily, please start letting me know if
> >> you want a free burnt copy of lucid lynx. It's a LTS so it should be
> >> pretty stable from release (touch wood) and I'm willing to take orders
> >> of which version of Ubuntu you want (k/x/ed/ubuntu) just nothing too
> >> obscure please. All details will be kept confidential (obvious
> >> whomever ends up posting you the CD will need an address, PO BOX is
> >> fine) so feel free to email me off the list or message me on IRC.
> >>
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Jared Norris
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 16 March 2010 07:17, James Beake <jamesbeake at moonmarsh.com> wrote:
> >> > Sounds like a nice way to provide a value add for regional Aus and I'm
> happy
> >> > to be part of the experiment.
> >> >
> >> > I'm prepared to fund $20 worth of CDs. Ie, I''ll burn / ship 8 CDs
> @2.50
> >> > each. More if the potage is less :)
> >> >
> >> > Is there any Ubuntu CD art work we can access?
> >> >
> >> > cheers
> >> > James
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Good evening all,
> >> >>
> >> >> With the release of Lucid Lynx approaching us sooner rather than
> later
> >> >> one idea I had that I would like to put out there to the mailing list
> >> >> was a bit of a Shipit type service (see https://shipit.ubuntu.com/for
> >> >> the official version) that aims at delivering the new release much
> >> >> sooner than the quoted 10 weeks from the website. What I am proposing
> >> >> is that some users in metropolitan Australia with quicker download
> >> >> speeds and higher download quota limits burn a copy of the new
> release
> >> >> and then post it to another user who might be stuck on dial up or
> >> >> regional 3G services with very low download limits.
> >> >>
> >> >> I would like to see if this sort of a service would be useful to our
> >> >> regional users or not and I would also be willing to coordinate this
> >> >> service. I have costed the idea and to post a CD to anywhere in
> >> >> Australia from anywhere in Australia would cost $2.50 (this includes
> >> >> the packaging and the postage costs) and also the cost the CD itself.
> >> >> How this would be paid would be dependant upon how many people were
> >> >> wanting this service and how many people were willing to help out.
> >> >>
> >> >> If you are interested please feel free to either drop me an email (on
> >> >> or off the list I don't mind) or pop into IRC (as explained
> >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/IRC - I'm usually lurking, my
> >> >> nick is head_victim) and just send me a message.
> >> >
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