[ubuntu-za] Downloads, repos and CDs

[Nico Michael (pta@ibst)]

Hi Maia
Thanks for your help

I think we need to start and Ubuntu LUG in Pretoria then we could get CD's sent to us to share with the community

When I wanted a SUSE DVD I would phone Novel and could collect one the same day
One day a few years ago Novel's  MD (now MD of Google SA)  gave me a set of SUSE CD's and that made me interested in Linux

Is there something like that for Ubuntu community in Pretoria area.

Call me a dreamer.


regards
Nick



On 2011-04-10 20:55, maia grotepass wrote:
> As some of you may know, Canonical is no longer sending shipit CDs. We
> are an approved LoCo so we do get CDs sent to the LoCo contact and we
> are doing our best to get as many CDs for the different universities
> and groups that need CDs.
>
> This is sad for all of us because bandwidth is so expensive in South Africa.
>
> There is something we can do, we can share. Our knowledge and our
> bandwidth with each other.
>
> If you are part of a university try to get the university to mirror
> the repos and get them on an external disk to share with other people.
>
> Register on http://ubuntu-za.org/get-ubuntu if you have isos. So
> people in your area can connect with you to get files.
>
> If there are a few people in an area using the same version you can
> set up one of the machines as a caching server then take turns to
> sponsor the downloads and update from the caching server.
>
> I am sure people have more ideas on how to get this to work.
>
> For a start Nick is trying to organise a release party in Pretoria. Is
> there anyone near him who can help him get isos or repos? contact him
> on nick.michael at ptaisp.co.za
>
> Also important, please keep having little community events, document
> them and let the list know about it so we can collect info to help
> argue why we should be an approved LoCo. No event is too small to
> build connection with fellow Ubuntu users and potential Ubuntu users.
>
> The power of the community lies in people connecting and helping each
> other whether or not we get CDs or stickers or banners. It lies in
> spending time with like minded people and everybody doing what they
> can, spreading the load.
>
> Maia
>