Free Quick Ship Discs ready

[Vincent]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Todd Robinson <todd at webpath.net> wrote:

> Vincent wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <open at knome.fi
> > <mailto:open at knome.fi>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     2009/7/31 Vincent <mailinglists at vinnl.nl
> >     <mailto:mailinglists at vinnl.nl>>
> >
> >
> >
> >         On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Todd Robinson
> >         <todd at webpath.net <mailto:todd at webpath.net>> wrote:
> >
> >             Ok, I received some really great input from the beta test.
> >             It turned out
> >             that just about everyone except American Express users had
> >             a problem
> >             checking out with the product showing no cost. I'm told it
> >             is because of
> >             "fraud prevention" measures.
> >
> >             I've now taken a much more standard approach of using sets
> >             of direct
> >             attributes and it looks like the Quick Ship service is
> >             ready to go.
> >
> >             When linking PLEASE link directly to the Quick Ship wiki
> >             page. It
> >             contains important information and links to two separate
> >             pages to obtain
> >             discs. One for domestic U.S. the other world wide. It will
> >             also reflect
> >             any future changes to the program.
> >
> https://on-disk.com/cms/index.php?wiki=Quick_Ship_Free_Disc_Service
> >
> >             I'm wondering if any developers have an objection to me
> >             turning off the
> >             standard Xubuntu listing?
> >             http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/products_id/707
> >
> >             Please let me know if there are any objections,
> >             Todd
> >
> >
> >         OK then, I don't think anybody objected so I suppose I can add
> >         it to the website now. One question: should I still mark this
> >         as being a trial? Also, if you ever decide to stop this
> >         program, could you notify me and the xubuntu-devel list?
> >
> >         Not sure what you mean by "turning off the standard Xubuntu
> >         listing" btw.
> >
> >         Thanks,
> >
> >         --
> >         Vincent
> >
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> >
> >
> >     Vincent,
> >
> >     If I understand correctly the Xubuntu disc won't be available as
> >     "normal" On-disk.com purchase, but only as the Quick service,
> >     which is more manual than the normal one.
> >
> >
> > Still not sure what the difference is :P
> >
> >
> >
> >     And sure, I think we can already include a link on our website.
> >     Just make sure it's not "official" or Canonical supported thing in
> >     any way but merely a free software community effort.
> >
> >
> >
> > Of course, it will be clear that it's not an effort by Canonical nor
> > the Xubuntu Developers :)
> >
> > One more question: could we see a photo of what the disks look like?
> > Just out of curiosity...
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Vincent
> Here is a PNG of the graphic we print directly to a silver CD. The CD
> looks much better than this graphic, but at the moment Karlie has the
> camera and she's out looking for a birthday present for me so I'm not
> going to interrupt her ;)
> http://on-disk.com/cms/data/files/Xubuntu_9.04_32bit_CD.png
>
> If you want to spiff it up in any way I'd say sure, have at it. We are
> able to print photo quality and many of the developers make their own
> graphics. The larger the graphic the better. 800x800 is about the
> minimum. 1024x1024 or larger will print up quite nicely.
>
>
Great, it's now linked from http://xubuntu.org/get#quickship . I'll now
craft up a news announcement.

-- 
Vincent
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