Missed evangelism opportunities was Re: Not Happy with ShipIt

[Tom Adelstein]

Yep!


On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 09:17 -0400, Sam Hiser wrote:
> 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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