John, you have expressed the Free Media Distribution in a very nice way.
sunil datta
--- On Mon, 6/4/09, inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: inode0 <inode0(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Free Media Distribution
To: fedora-ambassadors-list(a)redhat.com
Date: Monday, 6 April, 2009, 7:16 PM
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:06 PM,
Hisham Abdel-Magid
<himam(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm a civil engineer currently in Doha, Qatar .. while
promoting for fedora
> i usually face a direct request for Fedora Live CDs
from my colleagues ..
> Currently, i'm handling it by burning CDs/DVDs on my
own laptop, and i print
> the Sleve cover using a coloured printer on normal A4
paper and then crop it
> where necessary ...
> To be frank with you, i am not happy with the end
result when it comes to
> the CD it self (bcuz it still says "Sony CD-R" ^_^)
... anyhow, that's the
> limit of my humble budget for now ...
> and I did not join the FreeMadia Programme bcuz of
this "poor" end-result
Are the people who receive this free media from you
unhappy? If they
are happy and install and run Fedora as a result then I
would say the
end result is excellent. :)
> Therefore, I would be much obliged if someone advise
my about where/whom to
> contact for requesting Fedora Live CDs in order to
distribute them here in
> Qatar.... or at least how can i get some decent-looking
FedoraCD's Physical
> Art?..
As I understand it Fedora media distribution has really
three sources.
(1) The FreeMedia Program:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia
This is designed to help Fedora contributors get Fedora
into the hands
of people who have either economic or network hardships
that make it
difficult for them to acquire media for themselves
directly. Pretty
packaging of the media isn't an objective, although each
contributor
can handle that however they choose. If volume is a problem
in your
area the best solution is to recruit more contributors to
the program
to ease the burden on each contributor and to get as many
requests for
media satisfied as possible.
(2) The Sponsored Media Program:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/SponsoredMedia
This program gives one the opportunity to fund free Fedora
media
produced by a vendor to distribute through the Free Media
Program.
(3) Pressed Event Media: This is normally intended to be
very high
quality in terms of production value and is funded normally
by the
Fedora Project for use by Fedora contributors at events
where they are
representing/promoting Fedora. So if you are attending
events where
you are handing out Fedora media you can request a supply
of these
through whatever process exists in your region.
Periodically the question comes up as to why we don't use
this same
media and packaging for the Free Media Program? Some people
think we
should, at one time I thought that way myself. There are a
couple of
things to think about here. The Free Media Program is a way
for
individual contributors to help others acquire Fedora. Part
of this
contribution is providing the media itself, the postage
required, and
the time to transfer the bits to the media. This is a very
personal
way to contribute and in a way that makes this a special
program to me
now. When you contribute some code to a package you
generally don't
know who you are helping. When you spend a few minutes
preparing Free
Media for Bob in Topeka, you know exactly who you are
helping.
It is pretty much logistically impossible to produce fancy
pressed
media and distribute it in small amounts to hundreds of
people around
the world so they can use it for the Free Media Program.
This would be
very expensive for the project.
To everyone who recently burned a few CDs or DVDs that they
could
spare, wrote Fedora 10 on them with a Sharpie, and mailed
them off to
someone they have never met through the Free Media Program
please do
not feel uncomfortable with the "production value" of the
media you
shared with others. All contributions to this program are
acts of
generosity and kindness to others and I think it is one of
the very
best examples of why the Fedora community is so great to be
a small
part of.
John
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