[ossig] Informal poll - what open source do you want at FOSSCON exhibition?

[Imran William Smith <iwsmith@mimos.my>]

I'm trying to ensure that there is a very large
amount of open source CD's available at FOSSCON2003
exhibition, so even those who cannot afford to attend
the conference can come along and buy some open source
CD's for very low price (or bring blank CD's and we
will exchange them for full CD's!)

I want to mainly concentrate on the big stuff, that
people could not download without broadband.

Can I get some quick feedback, at the following
prices, *which packages would you buy?*, so I can
make sure we duplicate enough for the day, but not
so much that there are 100's or 1000's extra
unsold discs that will soon go 'stale' as new versions
come out.

And, if you wouldn't buy at these prices, would
you buy at lower prices?

RM 3 - OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC  binary+source
          for several platforms (Win, Linux, Mac, Solaris)

RM 9 - RH9 binary, 3 disks
RM 6 - RH9 source, 3 disks
RM 3 - RH9, all security updates since launch (500Mb!)

RM 3 - Knoppix 3.2 06/06/2003 (binary only)

RM21 - Debian 3.0_r1 Binary, 7 discs
RM14 - Debian 3.0_r1 Source, 7 discs

RM 6 - FreeBSD 4.8, 2 discs
RM 6 - FreeBSD 5.1, 2 discs

RM 9 - Mandrake 9.1 (3 disks, binary+source)

RM 3 - NetBSD 1.6.1

RM 3 - OpenBSD 3.3 (unofficial ISO)


What else?  Must be in an easy ISO format, and pref
just 1 or 2 CD's, and likely to be bought by
several people.  Somebody mentioned Cygwin, but it's not
easy to install via CD.  Any interest in Slackware,
Lycoris?   I see this as a big opportunity to help
spread OSS CD's into every corner of Malaysia, so if
you buy some, please duplicate a copy for all your
techie friends!


Pricing structure above is RM3 for binary discs, RM2
for source discs.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
If we can make a slight profit selling binary discs
at the conf, I can run the send-CD (send at zero-cost)
programme for longer, so there is some incentive
on me to make a small profit from this.  It turns out
that turning the send-CD programme into C-O-D is
going to be quite a pain (ask me if you care for
details).


Imran

--
Imran William Smith
Project Manager, Open Source Development,
MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia

Asian Open Source Centre : http://www.asiaosc.org
MIMOS Open Source        : http://opensource.mimos.my



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