Gratis CDs

[Kyle Vanditmars]

He hasn't said as such.  This is going to start once I'm back at school
in January.  Wouldn't be much point putting up posters when the only
people there are custodial staff.

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 11:30 -0500, Andrew Hunter wrote:
> On Monday 18 December 2006 19:45, Kyle Vanditmars wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:39 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > On 12/18/06, Kyle Vanditmars <kylevan at telus.net> wrote:
> > > > So I've added my plan to start an advocacy campaign at school to the
> > > > wiki (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/ApprovalApplication/) but I
> > > > have a question.
> > > >
> > > > If/when I'm able to get ahold of some Ubuntu CDs, and set up a little
> > > > "giveaway" area, I'm wondering if it would be "okay" to include
> > > > something like the OpenCD in the same place.  The browser thing that
> > > > pops up when you pop an Ubuntu CD into a running Windows system is a
> > > > little light on content, and I think it would be particularly good to
> > > > introduce people to OpenOffice.org and the other "heavyweight" FOSS
> > > > programs even if they perhaps aren't ready/willing to install Ubuntu
> > > > yet.  The argument's been made many times that getting people
> > > > accustomed to the applications will make the switch that much easier.
> > > >
> > > > My only concern is that the costs would probably be prohibitive to get
> > > > "professional" looking copies of the CD (they're $1.75 each from
> > > > http://linuxcd.org/,) and while I'm not averse to burning a 50-cd
> > > > spindle myself, people might be averse to taking one with some of my
> > > > scrawl across the front.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts? Suggestions?
> > >
> > > Ever tried to load an Ubuntu LiveCD in Windows?  It will start a
> > > subset of the OpenCD; last time I checked it contained the installer
> > > of the Windows version of applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp
> > > and a few others.
> > >
> > > So maybe for your needs you don't need to get the actual full-fledged
> > > OpenCD on a seperate CD, but the Ubuntu LiveCD would be enough to give
> > > to people as long as they know that it is not only a linux distro, but
> > > it also contains open source apps that would work in Windows.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel Robitaille
> >
> > I did pop my Ubuntu 6.10 CD into my sister's XP computer before mailing
> > initially, and your choices are FireFox, T-bird, Abiword, Gaim and GIMP.
> > I guess the main thing that's lacking is OOo, as I'm sure a lot of
> > people like to hang on to the "what about office?" excuse - despite
> > using maybe 10% of the features in Word, never mind the rest of the
> > suite.
> >
> > Anyway, I'll just start with getting Ubuntu CDs there, and posters
> > around campus.
> 
> Contact Corey (I am sure he is reading this) and see if he can get you an 
> expedited shipment of cds from Canonical. (Are we officially a local team 
> yet?)
>