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Seemant Kulleen wrote: |
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>You certainly have my vote on this. I would add a bit for CDs to give |
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>away. |
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Here is my take on CDs (and feel free to disagree with me here): |
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If we want to do CDs we need to do them right. This means they need to |
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be professionally labeled (no "Gen2 2005.0" written in sharpie). |
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Also, in the past when we have done CDs, say 300 or so, the majority of |
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them seem to get taken up by our current users as a little "souvenir". |
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While there is nothing wrong with this, if 250 current users rush the |
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booth on the first day asking for CDs, that leaves you with 50 to give |
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to potential users, and this is all out of a crowd of 5000+. |
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On top of that, we would have to coordinate with releng well ahead of |
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where we are now to get the upcoming release finished in time to go to |
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the printers. |
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I think CDs are important. I just don't think they are in the cards |
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right now. I see this year as a baby step to bigger things when it |
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comes to trade shows. In the future, I would love to see the Foundation |
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afford professionally printed CDs that could reach the masses. A quick |
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look online (no comparison shopping) shows $150 per 100 cd's, so to |
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have, say, 1000 CDs of a fresh release at LWE would be an awesome |
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thing! It would also cost $1500. This way you 1 do the CDs right, and |
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2 have enough to reach the masses. I think that would be very feasible |
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once we get a release or two into our bank. |
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Cheers! |
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-C |
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PS - Having Gentoo stickers to hand out would rock as well.. :) |
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