<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Message: 4 Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:23:21 +0530 From: "Sankarshan (????????)" <<a href="mailto:foss.mailinglists@gmail.com">foss.mailinglists@gmail.com</a>> Subject: [fedora-india] Susmit's blog ... and the media bits To: The Fedora Project Community in India <<a href="mailto:fedora-india@redhat.com">fedora-india@redhat.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:48B7AAF1.8030907@gmail.com">48B7AAF1.8030907@gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, For those who have missed it, Susmit blogged today about the fact that he wasn't feeling up to the task of being the face of Fedora in front of an audience at an Engineering College. <a href="http://susmit.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/today-i-have-a-talk-on-fedora/" target="_blank">http://susmit.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/today-i-have-a-talk-on-fedora/</a> In this case, I believe that the buck stops with me. And I take it as a lesson to work on the media availability bits so that this does not get repeated. I thought I had (wrongly as it turns out) fixed the media availability bits for this particular event. So Susmit, I am sorry that you feel the way you do. As a Fedora Ambassador and a pioneer mirror manager, you don't deserve to feel that way and we intend to take care of that. Susmit is going to represent Fedora at Nagpur at an event called AXIS and we are going to ensure that there is media. Sometime earlier, I'd written to the list about those who would desire to have a set of media which they can use to meet the demands from the users. Barring Kushal and Debarshi no one had responded. So, if you do require a set of media which you intend to use to meet demands locally, please feel free to write to the list and let's get on with making that available.</blockquote><div>We should be in a position to satisfy requirements in West Bengal soon. I can convince college authorities to start the service, but they wont agree beyond WB. We do ship media from time to time on special requests. Day before yesterday, I shipped two linux DVDs to a guy in Jalpaiguri. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> It is a fairly known fact that making media bits available to every request and meeting the demands for bulk shipment of media is somewhat expensive. For that particular reason, we begun by choosing a very small subset of FOSS events in the country. We have been lucky in the fact that other events had sponsors like Nilesh (aka Electromech) who have come forward with support of media. Currently, I have no more F9 media with me. I expect a small run to happen, but that will take at least 20 days. iLUG-Delhi (and especially Gora) are organizing a large number of workshops and they are doing a production run of media again to meet the expected demands. So, what happens if you have an event to attend or organize ? [*] please let the list know about when it is going to happen</blockquote><div>Will post as soon as it is final, and there will be enough info on <a href="http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in">http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in</a> . </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> [*] put an owner to the event [*] put that on the event tracker page [*] if you get media sponsored, please follow it up Suggestions for improvement to the media bits issue are welcome. ~sankarshan--------</blockquote></div> </div>