[ubuntu-in] College tech-fest help..

[Parthan SR]

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Prakash Advani wrote:
> Prateek,
>
> I work for Canonical India and l can organise CDs for you for sure, cant
> promise more but will try. Send me a personal email of how many you need.
Congratz Prakash (Jace just confirmed me the news ;) ).Hope Canonical
India will be able to support the Loco Team in future. :)

IMHO, distributing Live CDs to students just as Free CDs doesn't solve
any purpose at all. We have been distributing CDs since breezy days, but
not even 5-10% of them actually use those CDs after the first time. This
made us actually stop distributing CDs. Rather when we go to colleges,
We give them a few, ask them to save the image in a PC with CD burner
and allow the students to burn CDs from the image, if they are
interested to try out.

When you distribute something free, everybody wants to get one for them
without even bothering whether it will be actually useful for them. So,
my advice would be to go for the Toaster, because they have to buy a CD
and burn it up. They will do only if they are really interested in
getting a CD, else won't mind. Thus we do not actually waste Canonical's
money on shipping CDs which are distributed to people who have no real
interest in making use of them. Canonical has to spend around 80 Euros
to send you the CDs, if am not wrong in remembering the cost of sending
us the CDs for foss.in. The money can be otherwise used for useful
causes. Even if you get it free, some one else is paying for it. As a
responsible Ubunteros, we have to make the best use of facilities
available to us, especially when it involves some one else's money.

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With Regards,
Parthan aka Technofreak

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