[fedora-india] A suggestion to promote Free Media

[Suchakra]

thanks..but live usb creation is the easiest way that i see.takes less
time to create and install and everyone in campus carries one in his
pocket too :) we create local shares and servers too so users can
directly download images and create their usbs themselves.
but we'll go ahead with your idea too.

On 9/24/10, Hiemanshu Sharma <hiemanshu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 24-Sep-2010, at 1:09, Suchakra <suchakra at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> arun's idea works for me though. due to continuous in-campus requests,
>> i'm still able to supply live media (i had excess of them from last
>> event) and make live USBs sometimes to those who prefer. local
>> contacts seem efficient in campuses for sure :) our techfest is around
>> the corner and i'm sure the foss stall will be laden with media
>> requests again!
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> For tech festa the best thing to do is to have people buy or get their own
> DVD and you burn it for them. This always works best and only people who
> really need them will come to you.
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>> On 9/23/10, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 22:42 +0530, Arun Prakash wrote:
>>>> Hello All,
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>>> Hello Arun,
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>>> Thank you for taking time to coming up with a suggestion to improve the
>>> Free media program.
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>>>> I found that contributors of Fedora are trying hard to drive the free
>>>> media Program . I recently found the mail requesting contribution to
>>>> free media Program. Rather having to mail the CD/DVD with mailing
>>>> charges, they can send the CD/DVD to places near by . Is that
>>>> mandatory that a Ambassador should drive free media program ?
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>>> You mean sending a bulk of media to certain contacts? This will also
>>> cost money, and will probably cause wastage of media since few requests
>>> come from locations that are near to each other : The holders of these
>>> bulk media will in turn have to pay postage to at most times, therefore
>>> it results in more cost, not less.
>>>
>>> Another factor is that volunteers of the free media program cannot
>>> produce such media in such large amounts to supply. (if we could, we
>>> wouldn't be asking more folks to sign up ;) )
>>>
>>> Requests come from all parts of the country. Yes, a lot of them come
>>> from Bangalore and Pune but these are mostly handled by free media
>>> contributors from the respective cities.
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>>> While it is not mandatory that an Ambassador be a free media contact,
>>> you have to have an FAS account and be part of the free media group to
>>> have access to the free media trac (and mailing list).
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>>>> All the people who are available with the CD/DVD media can enrol
>>>> themselves to that media distribution program , If a person from that
>>>> locality request free media , we can point them to the resource
>>>> holding person , so that the request is satisfied .
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>>> This sounds like an integration of the free media and local contact
>>> programmes. This is one of the goals of the free media program, but it
>>> will take sometime before this can be streamlined and implemented under
>>> a larger, lets say, "Get yourself a copy of Fedora" programme.
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>>>> I am also interested in Free media program , I feel this . Please
>>>> suggest me if I am wrong.
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>>> Please sign up and accept two tickets a month. It's all we request of
>>> you :)
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>>> You should continue this discussion along with any more ideas that you
>>> can come up with, at the free media list[1] which is a more apt
>>> location. The members of the list are eager to participate in discussion
>>> aimed at improvements.
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Arun Prakash
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>>> [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/freemedia
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>>> --
>>> Thanks!
>>> Regards,
>>> Ankur
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
>>>
>>> "FranciscoD"
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