On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 00:11 -0400, Stephen Krenzel wrote:
Just a quick thought, feel free to knock it down if you so desire.
What about a "pass along" kind of setup. Where receivers of free media
can opt in to pass the media along when they are done installing it.
For example, I request a free media dvd and when signing up click
"Yes, I'd like to pass it along". I get added to a queue of free media
distributors. When my time comes up in the queue, I get a little e-
mail saying "such and such has requested free media, please pass it
along to Address here, etc...". After I confirm that I've passed it a
long, I can be removed from the queue. With a little logic to try and
keep the sending of media fairly local I think this could work out
pretty well. Any thoughts? The full logistics behind it would still
need to be worked out, but I think I outlined the premise good enough.
The main thing I think this would help with is keeping costs for
everyone low, and keeping a constant stream of free media distributors
flowing. It'd also allow people to feel more involved with the
community, as they've now become a link in a chain of possibly many
people who will receive the media and who have already received it. My
main concern would be quality control, but that is nothing that can't
be overcome :)
-Steve
Thats a good idea. We will have to look at it when we have a good
tracker in place. The infrastructure team is looking at OTRS
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Schedule
Rahul