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As discussed at yesterday's board meeting...<br>
<br>
I found the following information about getting free/promo media
from the Fedora Project:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/FreeMedia</a><br>
<br>
The relevant excerpts from this page (for us) are:<br>
<br>
<ul>
<li><i>"If you're a Fedora Ambassador or Fedora Contributor, you
will not receive any DVD via this program. Freemedia does not
provide disks for events."</i></li>
<li><i>"Media is produced by volunteers, we don't ship media with
commercial grade labels or printing."</i></li>
</ul>
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So, basically, they don't provide media for the kind of uses we're
looking for (they are targetting getting free media to individuals,
not groups), and since the free media program only provides
volunteer-burned (not professionally produced) media, what they
would provide would be no better than what we could produce
ourselves anyway.<br>
<br>
For professionally produced media, the Fedora Project redirects
people to media resellers (much like Debian does). The least
expensive price I saw was at os-disc.com, which charges $5.00/each
for Fedora 17 full install DVDs.<br>
<br>
Per their wiki page
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/SponsoredMedia">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/SponsoredMedia</a>), the old
"Sponsored Media" program is currently dead.<br>
<br>
--Pat.<br>
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