[Ambassadors] EMEA F13 media order revisited

[Onyeibo Oku]

On Sun, 02 May 2010 22:39 +0200, "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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
> 
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Makes a lot of sense
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