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

[wahlau@t-online.de (Wahlau On The Move)]

Imran William Smith schrieb:
> 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!)

that is really much appreciated effort. wished i had similar
opportunity years ago when i first started playing with linux :)

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

yup. when we all have affordable broadband, perhaps this is not a
problem then. 

speaking of broadband, what if people here who has
broader-than-128k-band connection team up and continue in similar
service country wide? when this works, we can set up representatives
volunteer all over Malaysia that has the full collection of CDs ready
to be -redistributed- to people who needs it. 

perhaps we can start up newer projects with new ideas.
 
> 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.

naw, just have more events quick, then send them off :) you can always
make talks from Unis to Colleges to Schools and give them away, right?
:D

*brainwash* the kids before they got brainwash by M$ :D

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

of course :)

> RM 3 - OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC  binary+source
[snipped]
> RM21 - Debian 3.0_r1 Binary, 7 discs
> RM14 - Debian 3.0_r1 Source, 7 discs

do offer Debian with only 1st CD, some might only need one to start,
then apt-get everything else. :)

> RM 6 - FreeBSD 4.8, 2 discs
[snipped]
> RM 3 - OpenBSD 3.3 (unofficial ISO)

the price looks good to me. perhaps make packages or offer packs to
attract them to buy will further promote :) like
Debian+Oo+Opengroupware<grin> for 17.99RM :> 

> 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!

with the suggestion above, perhaps with little organization,
distribution and redistribution will be more effective. if this idea is
ok, i can get a website up and ready to make some origanizational
stuffs on this project.

[snipped]
> 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).

please do make a little profit, which will sustain your good effort. i
once got RH and mandrake CDs myself, and posted in j.pcbase/j.o.l and i
have pretty good response at rm5 last time. i remember i even got
offered more than RM5 being appreciated taking the trouble driving from
Klang to PJ to deliver the CD... those were the days :)

anyway, keep it up guys :)

regards,
SianLun Lau


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