[Ambassadors] APAC Shipping experience from Bangladesh

[David Ramsey]

Hello Everyone,

Tuan, I like your idea and fully support your initiative.  Please keep up the great momentum!  :)

We can do it!  :)

Sending positive Fedora energy to your computers now.  :)

Thank You
Sincerely,
- David -

> Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:48:05 +0700
> From: tuanta at iwayvietnam.com
> To: ambassadors at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] APAC Shipping experience from Bangladesh
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Christoph Wickert" <christoph.wickert at gmail.com>
> > To: ambassadors at lists.fedoraproject.org
> > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 11:49:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] APAC Shipping experience from Bangladesh
> > 
> > I don't know what it's like in APAC and I am not to make a decision.
> > shipping But for me the first thing to do is to try to improve the
> > swag process before I abandon it in favor of local production (which
> > will then cause different problems). You can't say something doesn't
> > work if you haven't tried hard enough.
> 
> Hi Christoph, Buddhike et all,
> 
> Thank you for raising this issue and discussing on it a lot.
> 
> Media/swag should be one of the biggest problems in APAC up to now.
> We need to balance between the quality of media/swag (when producing
> them locally in a small amount) and the difficulties have to face
> (when getting it imported).
> 
> With a small amount of media/swag (I meant hundreds), it's difficult
> to order a local to produce them for us (or in a very high cost) so
> producing at one place and shipping them in the whole region may be
> a wise way. However, we faced a lot of issues to get them imported.
> Actually, Harish sent me once about 2-3 years ago but I could not get
> them imported because of too high tax. I remember that he wrote a
> total of $200 in the attached invoice. So, it's easier for us when
> the total is just about $30 (thanks Christoph for your cool idea)
> 
> Moreover, I think building a list of import issues categorized by
> country for APAC should be a critical task. We should focus on this
> issue in the next APAC meeting.
> I would like to propose our steps:
>   1. Create a wiki page to list all issues by country.
>   2. Discuss more (in APAC meeting) to clarify all of them.
>   3. Try, share experience and improve the whole process.
> 
> I hope the process will improve much after several releases. It it
> works well, we will have a big improvement in promoting Fedora.
> We can not know where it goes if you do not start.
> 
> I created the wiki page [1]. Everyone, please fill your issues in.
> 
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/APAC_Media_Shipping_Issues
> 
> Kind regards, 
> Tuan 
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