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

["LeeCC, Kenny" <kenny.leecc@hp.com>]

Since the conference is quite pricey for the budget conscious students, maybe you guys can offer them the CDs free when they register for the conference.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wahlau On The Move [mailto:wahlau@t-online.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 20:02
> To: ossig@mncc.com.my
> Subject: Re: [ossig] Informal poll - what open source do you want at
> FOSSCON exhibition?
> 
> 
> 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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