[Ambassadors] Fedora availability initiative

[Bhanu Patial]

Thanks, yes i do admit that this is having a slow rate of growth. But it
will be steady. Our basic objective is to make Fedora available for all. I
think it is beneficial for cybercafe owners too. They will be earning by
burning CDs/DVDs and they too will be selling blank CDs/DVDs, event in that
there is profit for them.

I think of convinced properly we can make these people to distribute Fedora
media.


Moreover my main concern is that is burning and selling CDs/DVDs compleatly
legal accross countries ?

2009/3/4 Gaurav Prabhu <g5_fosslover at yahoo.in>

> Nice Recommendation, but it has a very low rate of success. I think the
> individual members can stand up to the task of media distribution. Another
> thing will be nature of the cyber cafe holders, since most of them do not
> welcome such suggestions due to the fact they get nothing out of it.
>
> --- On *Wed, 4/3/09, Bhanu Patial <bhanupat at fedoraproject.org>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Bhanu Patial <bhanupat at fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: [Ambassadors] Fedora availability initiative
> To: fedora-ambassadors-list at redhat.com
> Date: Wednesday, 4 March, 2009, 1:04 PM
>
> 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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