[Ambassadors] Fedora availability initiative

[Bhanu Patial]

Hi all,


 Fedora availability initiative



                 I am just presenting an idea for making fedora available to
everyone.



Currently:

                1. Fedora CD/DVD is downloadable (Peoples having high speed
internet access can own it)

                2. Available on very selected shops in very few cities. (Not
everyone know these places)

                3. Very limited information on web about shops selling it.
(Many times if found these shops are not reachable to all. One may find
nearest shop in other state.)

                4. It will become tough for Fedora community to distribute
free CD/DVD copies when it comes to a large number.



Proposed solution.



                Almost every City/Town is having cyber cafes (Internet
shops).

We can take benefit of these.



I’ll explain how it will work



A Fedora Ambassador have to set up a network of cyber café owners in his
state/town/city/area. Target cyber cafes nearby school, colleges and other
educational intuitions. Thereafter ambassador’s  job is to provide CD/DVD
images to this network.



The cafe owner have to display a board, can be a printout telling “*Fedora
10 Available, buy your own CD/DVD and get it burnt for Rs 20 INR*”. This
amount should be constant across all cybercafe cafes in a
state/town/city/area


A blank DVD cost Rs 25 to Rs 30 in India + Rs 20 for burning is easily
affordable. :)



This will interest the café owners to sell it as they are getting money for
the same.



We will publish a web page which will have list of these vendors categorized
by Country/State/City/Town so that these people can easily be searched.





Please reply with comments.**
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