LiveCD & Media Distribution

[Santosh Kumar]

Hi fellow ambassadors,
  LiveCD is a wonderful idea... a LiveCD is the only thing in Ubuntu
that impressed me apart from their Media Distribution.....
  What do you guys think about a company sponsoring the complete Media
Requests for fedora like Canonical does for Ubuntu?? wouldnt it be a
good move?? It is not always quite effective when we just ship out
around 150-200 Media a month when our competitors ship more than a
1000.... and i am sceptical about the effectiveness of the ambassadors
distributing the Free Media in Fedora, as this manpower could be used
in a better way..... and not everyone would like to shell out to
distribute the FreeMedia DVD's, so this always falls on to a single
person to take up the costs of the Media....
Dont you think we need to rethink our strategy??

Regards
-- 
Santosh Kumar
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SantoshKumar

Fwd: LiveCD & Media Distribution

[Santosh Kumar]

Hi fellow ambassadors,
  LiveCD is a wonderful idea... a LiveCD is the only thing in Ubuntu
that impressed me apart from their Media Distribution.....
  What do you guys think about a company sponsoring the complete Media
Requests for fedora like Canonical does for Ubuntu?? wouldnt it be a
good move?? It is not always quite effective when we just ship out
around 150-200 Media a month when our competitors ship more than a
1000.... and i am sceptical about the effectiveness of the ambassadors
distributing the Free Media in Fedora, as this manpower could be used
in a better way..... and not everyone would like to shell out to
distribute the FreeMedia DVD's, so this always falls on to a single
person to take up the costs of the Media....
Dont you think we need to rethink our strategy??

Regards
--
Santosh Kumar
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SantoshKumar


-- 
C.Santosh Kumar


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[Fedora-freemedia-list] Fwd: LiveCD & Media Distribution

[Rahul Sundaram]

Santosh Kumar wrote:
>  Hi fellow ambassadors,
>   LiveCD is a wonderful idea... a LiveCD is the only thing in Ubuntu
>  that impressed me apart from their Media Distribution.....
>   What do you guys think about a company sponsoring the complete Media
>  Requests for fedora like Canonical does for Ubuntu?? wouldnt it be a
>  good move?? 
Its very cost and time inefficient to do centralized distribution. Red 
Hat did try sending media disks to ambassadors for every event and that 
worked out to be a bad idea since we were spending all our limited 
budgets on transactions costs. For more details see 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Accounting.  So now we reimburse after 
local production from ambassadors instead. Red Hat and FAMSco did send 
out some media to Thomas Chung a while back to Free media distribution 
though. There is also http://www.freelinuxdisk.org/ which will get a 
chunk of Free media of Fedora Core 6 shortly.

  It is not always quite effective when we just ship out
>  around 150-200 Media a month when our competitors ship more than a
>  1000.... and i am sceptical about the effectiveness of the ambassadors
>  distributing the Free Media in Fedora, as this manpower could be used
>  in a better way..... and not everyone would like to shell out to
>  distribute the FreeMedia DVD's, so this always falls on to a single
>  person to take up the costs of the Media....
>  Dont you think we need to rethink our strategy??
>   
It doesnt have to fall in a single person at all. Many regions have 
multiple people doing this though we would always welcome more 
contributors.

Remember that Free media is just one form of distribution. 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution. Unless you plan on getting 
more organizations to sponsor such efforts, the current method is the 
best way we can spend our funds in this.

More official Live media releases would be nice. We will see what we can 
do about that in the next release. Meanwhile check out

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-August/msg00013...

Rahul

[Fedora-freemedia-list] Fwd: LiveCD & Media Distribution

[Karlie Robinson]

Rahul wrote:
>  Santosh Kumar wrote:
> > around 150-200 Media a month when our competitors ship more than a
> > 1000.... and i am sceptical about the effectiveness of the ambassadors
> > distributing the Free Media in Fedora, as this manpower could be used
> > in a better way..... and not everyone would like to shell out to
> > distribute the FreeMedia DVD's, so this always falls on to a single
> > person to take up the costs of the Media....
> > Dont you think we need to rethink our strategy??
> >
>  
>  It doesnt have to fall in a single person at all. Many regions have 
>  multiple people doing this though we would always welcome more 
>  contributors.
>  
>  Remember that Free media is just one form of distribution. 
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution. Unless you plan on getting 
>  more organizations to sponsor such efforts, the current method is the 
>  best way we can spend our funds in this.
>  Rahul 
First thing we should all remember about business, is that any company 
shelling out gobs of money will want something in return.  You'll need 
to ask what that is and is it at a price the project can afford?

The individuals who fill FreeMedia requests are also getting something 
in return, but what they get back is personal.  Like the warm fuzzies 
one-on-one gifting brings.

Besides isn't there a major company already underwriting most of what 
Fedora does... Name is about to spill out... Red... Car?  House?  Oh 
yeah!  Red Hat!

The work that the Ambassadors do is more than a faceless mail room 
pumping out discs.  Face time with users at events, talks and FUDCon's 
is priceless.

It gives fedora a face and a name.  A mailroom pumping out discs can't 
do that.  (also makes me think about the hundreds of AOL discs I've 
thrown out over the years)

Paying forward is a slow process, but the return is greater.

[Fedora-freemedia-list] Fwd: LiveCD & Media Distribution

[Thomas Chung]

On 9/8/06, Karlie Robinson <karlie.robinson(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  Paying forward is a slow process, but the return is greater. 
+1

That sums it up about our Fedora Free Media Program. :)
Remember giving is better than receiving!

Join me giving "Gift of Fedora"[1]
[1] http://www.redhat.com/fedora/

Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

[Rohan Dighe]

Hello Ambassadors,

Yeah, this idea of actually some company sponsoring the whole
freemedia is quite interesting and yields more results. Also, my
fellow friends order free media directly from the ubuntu website and
their order arrives in about 4 weeks. So, its actually very good and
centralized way to distribute all stuff !

Thank You
-- 
Rohan Dighe
Fedora Ambassador India.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RohanDighe


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