[wplug-board] Fwd: Re: [SFD-discuss] Ubuntu CDs

[Pat Barron]

Apropos of our discussion yesterday of trying to get Ubuntu discs for 
SFD, this was sent to the SFD discussion list yesterday.

It seems that Canonical is just not providing free media anymore, even 
for the SFD organizers.  I will check with the Ubuntu PA Community Team, 
but I suspect we'll get the same answer (i.e., if you want the 
professionally produced media, you've gotta buy it...).

--Pat.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [SFD-discuss] Ubuntu CDs
Date: 	Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:56:23 +0800
From: 	Frederic Muller - DFI <fred at softwarefreedomday.org>
Reply-To: 	Open discussions about SFD <sfd-discuss at sf-day.org>
To: 	sfd-discuss at sf-day.org



Hi!

We actually mentioned this in the announcement but I should probably
assume that announcement are like man pages ;-)

No Ubuntu CD anymore. While Canonical is still sponsoring SFD both with
cash and some part of our infrastructure they will no longer be
providing CDs.

It's a sad thing as that was really a great thing to be able to provide
so many CDs to all teams but we've discussed a lot and there is really
no way to get them anymore. I have been in discussion with some people
both at Red Hat and openSUSE for the past 2 years to try to find an
alternative (as we cannot afford to do it ourselves). The shipping is
the biggest cost of it all and the timing as well (letting people know
when they produce that they need to make 20K more for SFD). Then you
need to get the release somewhat aligned with SFD. openSUSE is being
released in September this year so that would have been too tight. For
Fedora I can probably get a few thousands easily but we just can't
afford to ship them at the moment. Another cost for Canonical was the
custom duties which they would pay when people were asking as well.

On the bright side we are trying to raise more funds and do more things,
but it is a slow process and no an easy one.

I hope I have covered the topic so everybody knows where we stand. Any
suggestion that we could implement to help providing CDs again is of
course welcome.

Thanks.

Fred

On 09/04/2012 08:04 AM, Rik Tindall wrote:
> Hello - kia ora,
>
> from Aotearoa New Zealand.
>
> Team Christchurch has received its SFD promotional goods pack - thank you :)
>
> Are there to be any give-away Ubuntu CDs this year?
>
> Thank for organising Software Freedom Day for eight years already - very
> well done!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rik
>
>
>
>
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