Missed evangelism opportunities was Re: Not Happy with ShipIt

Sam Hiser shiser at cloud9.net
Wed Aug 3 13:17:21 UTC 2005


This, below, is well put.

I have rec'd ShipIt's in the large quantity I requested, but would 
support a system where people paid their own shipping costs if it would 
mean that product were shipped in a timely way.

Sam Hiser

Jimmie Houchin wrote:

> I haven't received my shipit either.
>
> I personally download the ISOs and burn cds for personal installs.
>
> I think the ShipIt system needs to be improved where the people who 
> have ordered prior to the date of the unstable Ubuntu becoming stable 
> receive their orders promptly.
>
> For me and many others it affects our ability to evangelize and 
> promote Ubuntu. As it currently stands and my receipt of the Hoary 
> ShipIts were similar but maybe not quite as late, we are almost as 
> close to the next Ubuntu as we are/were the current Ubuntu release. 
> Kindof diminishes the value. I too hate to look a gift horse in the 
> mouth, but I think that ShipIt is probably not achieving the goals it 
> seeks, should or could because of the delays.
>
> I just bought my HP zv6131us notebook at Best Buy (US).
> While I was talking to the guys at the Geek squad who were checking it 
> out to make sure everything worked before I took it home, I told them 
> that the first thing I was going to do when I got it home was wipe 
> Windows XP Pro off the thing and install Ubuntu. They didn't know 
> about Ubuntu. So we talked awhile. Nice thing in this was the guy 
> doing the tests when he heard I was wiping the drive, answered a few 
> of the Windows questions so when I booted at home it never asked me 
> anything. I  popped in the cd to find the right one. I'm a bad boy, 
> too many unlabeled cds. :)
>
> Anyway to the point. It would be great to have at these places who 
> sell PCs a stack of Ubuntu CDs. They have stacks of AOL and others. 
> This would be a great opportunity for Ubuntu to make inroads. But it 
> needs to be the current Ubuntu CD, not the cd for the previous Ubuntu 
> 3 months past the current release date.
>
> Well enough ranting.
>
> In closing I want to thank all the developers and people involved in 
> bringing us this awesome distro. Thanks Mark for sharing our desire 
> for a great distro like this and having the wherewithal to do 
> something about it. Thanks, thanks, thanks.
>
> Later.
>
> Jimmie
>
>






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