[Ambassadors] F23 media production (in EMEA)

[Christian Dersch]

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+1 from me for your proposal

Greetings,
Christian


On 11/02/2015 03:52 PM, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> Jiri Eischmann píše v St 14. 10. 2015 v 17:44 -0400:
>> Hi, Fedora 23 is just around corner and we haven't discussed
>> media production yet. For F22, produced 2,000 Workstation DVDs
>> and 1,000 Alternative Desktops DVDs.
>> 
>> A couple of facts: * the minimal amount to order is 1,000 * 2,000
>> DVDs of Workstation was just enough for this cycle, we ran out of
>> them just a couple of weeks before a new release, we still have a
>> couple of hundred of Alternative Desktops ones though. * unit
>> price if you produce 1,000 is 40% higher than if you produce 
>> 2,000.
>> 
>> We can go with the same amounts again, at the regional meeting, 
>> someone suggested that we should go with a lower amount. In this 
>> case, it would make sense to only produce the minimal amount of 
>> Workstation ones.
>> 
>> Status of DVD alternatives: * USB sticks are still >10x more
>> expensive than DVDs unfortunately, they're faulty and too slow to
>> load. Not an option to fully replace DVDs nowadays. * we've
>> released a 'Getting Started with Fedora' handbook, it doesn't 
>> include any media with Fedora, but tells users how to create one
>> and provides much more info about Fedora. And it's very close to
>> DVDs price-wise:
>> https://eischmann.wordpress.com/2015/10/14/getting-starte 
>> d-with-fedora-handbook/
>> 
>> Opinions, ideas?
>> 
>> Jiri --
> 
> We haven't reached any conclusion and it's really time to order
> them.
> 
> That's why I propose we produce 1000 Workstation ones. I will also 
> order 1000 for usage of Red Hat Czech which will help us get a
> better unit price.
> 
> That should be it. I would not order any other kind. DVDs are media
> of the past, we produce them for legacy reasons and will
> discontinue them eventually, so I think the minimal approach is
> right and we should not ship full variety of Fedora offerings on
> DVDs because it's not our primary way to distribute Fedora any
> more. Let's stick with the default offering and with minimal
> amounts and let's discontinue it in 1-2 releases.
> 
> Jiri
> 
> 
> 
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