[Fedora-marketing-list] Proposal: Link to low-cost CD presses

[Michel Salim]

Hello,

I notice that quite a few of the requests made to the Free Media
program came from USA, Canada, UK etc. It seems to me that at least
some of the request originators would be happy to use low-cost presses
like Cheapbytes instead but did not know that they exist.

Could we perhaps put up a page on the Wiki with links to such sites?
I've used Cheapbytes, Linux Emporium (United Kingdom) and a similar
service in Indonesia in the past, and have generally been very
satisfied. The Indonesian operation (I can't recall the name at the
moment) even delivers by courier to your house if you live in the
capital.

This would probably allow us to reach more people who *really* cannot
get access to the
DVDs otherwise (or have reasons not to trust online vendors)

Regards,

-- 
Michel Salim
http://hircus.wordpress.com/

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
                -- Christopher Morley

[Thomas Chung]

On 12/4/06, Michel Salim <michel.salim(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I notice that quite a few of the requests made to the Free Media
>  program came from USA, Canada, UK etc. It seems to me that at least
>  some of the request originators would be happy to use low-cost presses
>  like Cheapbytes instead but did not know that they exist.
>
>  Could we perhaps put up a page on the Wiki with links to such sites?
>  I've used Cheapbytes, Linux Emporium (United Kingdom) and a similar
>  service in Indonesia in the past, and have generally been very
>  satisfied. The Indonesian operation (I can't recall the name at the
>  moment) even delivers by courier to your house if you live in the
>  capital.
>
>  This would probably allow us to reach more people who *really* cannot
>  get access to the
>  DVDs otherwise (or have reasons not to trust online vendors)
>
>  Regards,
>
>  --
>  Michel Salim 
We've been maintaining a list of OnlineVendors for quite some times.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors
I'm sure they know this page since it's been linked from the Main page.
FedoraMain  =>  GetFedora => Online Vendors
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

[Michel Salim]

2006/12/5, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:

>  We've been maintaining a list of OnlineVendors for quite some
> times.
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors
>  I'm sure they know this page since it's been linked from the Main page.
>  FedoraMain  =>  GetFedora => Online Vendors 
Ah, quite right. Would it be useful to link to that page from the
FreeMedia page as well?

Regards,

-- 
Michel Salim
http://hircus.wordpress.com/

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
                -- Christopher Morley

[Rahul Sundaram]

Michel Salim wrote:
>  2006/12/5, Thomas Chung <tchung(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
>  
> > We've been maintaining a list of OnlineVendors for quite some times.
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors
> > I'm sure they know this page since it's been linked from the Main page.
> > FedoraMain  =>  GetFedora => Online Vendors
>  
>  Ah, quite right. Would it be useful to link to that page from the
>  FreeMedia page as well? 
Done.

Rahul

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Thomas Chung wrote:

>  We've been maintaining a list of OnlineVendors for quite some
> times.
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors 
>  I'm sure they know this page since it's been linked from the
> Main page.
>  FedoraMain  =>  GetFedora => Online Vendors 
Heh.  I wouldn't be so sure that the casual user:

a. Knows that "fedoraproject.org" is the first place to look;
b. Doesn't get distracted by other links all over every page;
c. Knows how to read.  :)

I think the vendor list is reasonably well-placed, and has decent 
visibility -- but I wouldn't be so sure that it's where everybody ends up 
when they need to get a DVD.

--g

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