Thoughts related to ShipIt changes

[Robert Eisenzopf]

Don't know what you are doing - but I just gave away an
Ubuntu CD 9.04 to a young lady that came by
on business. I do this all the time, i.e., take a short
time to demo Ubuntu on a machine running MS XP
using a document, audio(National Anthem), and photo(my dog
and cat) and ask them if they would like
to try it - and that they should copy the CD and give it
away to many friends. I usually get an amazed
affirmative. I cannot follow up all these - but who knows?
That is one way I've gotten a number of users -
and they often don't tell me. After all, how well does one
know a contact who gives you a small gift, doing 
a good turn. Even Christ when He healed 10 lepers only had
one return to say "Thank you"! I'll take as 
many as you wish to continue this personal policy. It is a
delight to do so and the professionally done
CD looks better than my writing on one that I've copied to
hand out.

"Robert Eisenzopf" <deitai at closecall.com>

Nate <omegamormegil at gmail.com>
> As Canonical is changing it's free CD's by mail program
> (source:
>
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/10/21/keeping-ubuntu-cds-available/
> ), and
> considering that we seem to have a bunch of unused
> install CD's left over
> after the 6 month window when they are valid, maybe we
> should think of a
> creative way to get CDs to people in MD that are too far
> away, or just
> unable to come to meetings.
> 
> Perhaps this would be a good way of increasing remote
> participation with the
> Loco team (do we still do IRC meetings?).  We could
> always mail CD's if we
> had to (and if someone was willing to spring for postage
> - maybe a few
> people could chip in), or maybe there are other options.
>  Perhaps if we
> advertised on the forums that we still have CDs from
> Canonical people would
> come out and get them.
> 
> An easy and simple solution would obviously be
> preferable.  At the very
> least, we could just put something on the website
> indicating that free
> install CD's are available at the meetings.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Nate
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