[Ubuntu-be] Distribution points and official CDs

[Léo Studer]

Yeah you're making a good point here, I don't think it's very 
interesting to fly out hundreds of install CD in some places where 
people will consider them like, let say  a bunch of "discover AOL" CD... 
you see what I mean ?

I think the choice to change one's OS is not a little thing, and thus 
people should be advised and find a support with these CD.
So maybe we'd rather focus on setting up some few easy access support 
points where experienced Ubuntu users could be available as often as 
possible, and then widely advertise about these support points (we could 
call them "Ubuntu café" or "Ubuntu Oasis" or anything, or not giving 
them a name.. anyways...) in the places like municipalities, 
superstores, so on...


Mark Van den Borre a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
>> > * Is it possible to foresee a third category "distribution only 
>> points"
>> > on the map, where people could get CDs without making an appointment
>> > and which would give opening hours and **complete** address instead of
>> > a contact email address ? (if not, we will find a solution, but less
>> > effective)
>
> Your great work shows that with some effort, we can find more than
> enough distribution points. Most of the ones we already have are also
> willing to be demonstration and first installation points. I do think
> we have to be careful and conservative in the way we distribute CD's.
> We have to keep in mind that our goal is converting as many users to
> Ubuntu as possible, and that we have a limited supply of CD's.
>
> Canonical will happily send us zillions of CD's _if and only if_ we
> can show them numbers of converted users. In other words: we have to
> keep a close eye on actual conversions per CD distributed.
>
> Before actively looking for further distribution only points, we
> should probably discuss. More distribution only points could probably
> be useful, if accompanied with information on local demo and install
> points, and if we find a way to measure conversions.
>
> Mark

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