[Ambassadors] EMEA F13 media order revisited

[Pierros Papadeas]

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Christoph Wickert
<christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> in the last meeting the EMEA ambassadors decided to order 6000 F13
> media:
> 2000 GNOME live i686
> 2000 Install DVD i386
> 2000 Install DVD x86_64
>
> I just talked to Jörg and it seems that this *way is too much, even with
> Africa who might need more media as there only is slow internet. Jörg
> just told me that last year we had 880 media each live and install, this
> means 1760 in total.

I agree with you Christoph they are way too much...

> Suggestion:
> 1500 GNOME Live i686
> 1000 DVDs i386
> 1000 DVDx x86_64
> ----
> 3500 media, already twice as much as last year! Enough even if we give a
> large amount to Africa.
>
> According to the numbers Sascha gave us in the last meeting this should
> be around 3200 US $ I guess. Of course the value for money is not as
> good as on the big order but I doubt we really can spend all the media
> throughout the F13 cycle and if we order less, we still have money for
> the spins.
>
> 1000 KDE Live i686
> 500 LXDE Live i686
> 500 Xfce Live i686
> ----
> 2000 Spin media, should be enough and hopefully affordable within the
> current budget.
>
> What do you people think of these numbers? Do they sound reasonable?

Absolutely, in fact these numbers reflect the actual requests for
media as long as events are concerned :)

> I asked Sascha to get mire quotes for different numbers (500, 1000,
> 1500) from the media company and I think we need to revisit this topic
> in the next EMEA ambassadors meeting because we should not waste our
> money for media we will never be able to spend. If we spend so much
> money, we should at least spend it on more variety.

Topic added ;) [1] If the price for that quantities is close to
reasonable we should agree on that on the meeting and get a roadmap on
having those media ready possibly for some Release Parties (early to
mid June)

See ya on the meeting!

~π

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:EMEA_Ambassadors_2010-5-12

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