On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've asked him to outline what he felt was easier in Ubuntu, so
we could
see what Fedora is doing. I've forwarded the mail because it's a
consequence of us not being able to make Fedora available to people on
time. Had I managed to accept the ticket last month, we'd probably have
one more Fedora user.
I wouldn't necessarily look at the situation in this particular way.
It appears that the end user wrote in to both projects and expected a
media free of charge. The slice of conclusion that can be drawn is
that (s)he desired to have a Linux desktop. That's an upside.
Given the scale of demand on the Freemedia project I had earlier
tentatively proposed an idea about accepting a pledge of contribution
from someone and the Freemedia volunteer meeting that pledge (for
example, I pledge ~2000 INR for a period to a specific volunteer and
(s)he commits to using the money for sending out media). That didn't
go far but I think that's probably one way the demand can be met.
Having said that, I still feel that relying solely on Freemedia as a
means to provide Fedora media to potential participants is asking too
much of what is essentially a labor of love.
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
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