Free Quick Ship Discs ready

[Pasi Lallinaho]

Todd Robinson 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.
>
>
>
>   
Todd,

I can provide SVG (vector) graphics for the CD. Is there any template I
should use? Should I add some "padding" to the borders of the disc?
Also, is there a vector version of the On-Disk.com logo?

I think it would be awesome to ship every release with a different CD
graphics. We would of course provide those. Let's get this thing going
first, though :)

Thanks again.

-- 
Pasi Lallinaho
Xubuntu Marketing Lead
Web-designer, graphic artist
IRC: knome @ freenode