<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Ankur Sinha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sanjay.ankur@gmail.com">sanjay.ankur@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 22:39 +0530, susmit shannigrahi wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> There are a lot of requests for fedora freemedia.<br>
> What I did last month for kolkata was I provided a few DVDs to<br>
> Dipanjan and asked people to collect personally.<br>
> Of the 19 requests we got, only 5 collected personally.<br>
> After tomorrow, I am going to flag them invalid. The current system is<br>
> such that even if they request DVD next month, they will be flagged as<br>
> duplicate.<br>
><br>
> What we can do is to make it compulsory to collect the DVD personally<br>
> if there is an ambassador in locality.<br>
> I guess this way, we may cut down the "I-request-whatever-I-get-free" people.<br>
><br>
> Your thoughts?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>hi,<br>
<br>
The collecting bit is the trouble.<br>
<br>
For example, I've had a lot of requests under the local contact scheme,<br>
even phone calls. People just sort of forget about it once they apply.<br>
(You receive no blank media etc.)<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Ankur<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>Susmit,<br><br>Although we have our justifications for the way FreeMedia works and not works.. but during last many months I have got a lot too many unhappy mails.. people dont understand the Freedom stuff.. they dont care much about the efforts put in by Fedora community .. for majority of them Ubuntu packaged media that is shipped always in time is the benchmark.. and we happen to be not around anywhere in comparrision.<br>
<br>Fedora FreeMedia (India to begin with) needs a professional look and in enough supply to match the demand.. is when we will see happy users (who incidently still dont care much about freedom then getting work done.)<br>
<br>Here is what I suggest.. we have a local contact program which is quite good in decentralizing the effforts but we lack strong efforts (which is justifiable, everyone cant be expected to put efforts for Fedora while leaving other important stuff aside).. what we can do is , we can create a better communication channel (IRC too has failed because same-time-everyone-is-free does not happen.) <br>
<br>How about mail reminders containing city wise pending requets and sent to local contacts.. (or a desktop widget displaying this information :-) )<br><br>There are two aspects of a not functional FreeMedia India program.. <br>
1. one is the funding.. (put ~50INR/Request X 200Requests/Month = INR 10K in one place, figure out a vendor who can do burning and packaging and ship from one location. Which we dont have) <br>2. and two is difficulty in decentralizing the efforts.. (people dont like to buy media and get it burned from LocalContacts after filling the MediaForm which is not very understandable but true.. and we cant/dont want to force our contacts to put in money for all the requests because few locations produce most of requests)<br>
<br>to solve this we need voluneers who are commited to dig out the FreeMedia program and make it functional..<br><br>So guys. this is what i can think of ..lets make a team out of us.. everyone who is a part of it has to follow certain formal equations like meeting on time, being reachable, being able to put in efforts when needed (we'll figure out the money part later) and will be responsible for the larger free media program.<br>
<br>what do you think?<br><br>Siddharth<br><br><br><br>