On Tuesday 27 July 2010 13:58:21 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

Hi all,

Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit expensive.

So I have two questions for yah ambasadors: - Does the Indian Ambassador team have something arranged for this?

In that case I can send one or more of you the address of dear Remya so you can send him a DVD. I have, btw, already asked him if it is possible to download and burn it or put it on a USB drive.

- do we, in general, have something arranged for this? Should we?

We're right now producing openSUSE DVDs to give away - but due to the overhead of shipping and the cost of shipping and customs for a small amount, we only send these out to events or to people that really share. So, if somebody wants to send single DVDs in a single country for individuals, we can send e.g. 100 DVDs for distribution.

We *could* set this up, maybe find sponsors for it - either local or international. In some countries with bad network it might be worth the effort, however, in that case I would immediately add a couple of other things like a DVD with sources (so they can develop! Very doable with Git especially) and possibly additional software (eg codecs, if it's legal in said country).

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Hi Jos, psankar made the offer to distribute the media in India. So connect the guy to him.

Hi all,

Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit expensive.

So I have two questions for yah ambasadors: - Does the Indian Ambassador team have something arranged for this?

In that case I can send one or more of you the address of dear Remya so you can send him a DVD. I have, btw, already asked him if it is possible to download and burn it or put it on a USB drive.

- do we, in general, have something arranged for this? Should we?

We *could* set this up, maybe find sponsors for it - either local or international. In some countries with bad network it might be worth the effort, however, in that case I would immediately add a couple of other things like a DVD with sources (so they can develop! Very doable with Git especially) and possibly additional software (eg codecs, if it's legal in said country).

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On 07/27/2010 05:28 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

Hi all,

Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit expensive.

So I have two questions for yah ambasadors: - Does the Indian Ambassador team have something arranged for this?

In that case I can send one or more of you the address of dear Remya so you can send him a DVD. I have, btw, already asked him if it is possible to download and burn it or put it on a USB drive.

- do we, in general, have something arranged for this? Should we?

We *could* set this up, maybe find sponsors for it - either local or international. In some countries with bad network it might be worth the effort, however, in that case I would immediately add a couple of other things like a DVD with sources (so they can develop! Very doable with Git especially) and possibly additional software (eg codecs, if it's legal in said country).

Greetings, Jos

I can send DVD to Remya Reghu. Just let me know his/her mailing address. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 27 July 2010 13:58:21 Jos Poortvliet wrote:

Hi all,

Me and some others received a request from Remya Reghu to send him a DVD with openSUSE. Now I'd love to do that, but afaik nothing is organized for this and sending it from the Netherlands is a wee bit expensive.

So I have two questions for yah ambasadors: - Does the Indian Ambassador team have something arranged for this?

In that case I can send one or more of you the address of dear Remya so you can send him a DVD. I have, btw, already asked him if it is possible to download and burn it or put it on a USB drive.

- do we, in general, have something arranged for this? Should we?

We *could* set this up, maybe find sponsors for it - either local or international. In some countries with bad network it might be worth the effort, however, in that case I would immediately add a couple of other things like a DVD with sources (so they can develop! Very doable with Git especially) and possibly additional software (eg codecs, if it's legal in said country).

Greetings, Jos

BTW at everyone: I am still thinking about this. Andreas asked if we should have a page of (local) vendors who burn and sell DVD's. It could be linked to from the home page, makes sense to me. Who wants to create such a page? Otherwise, we're having the problem that we need to have local repositories of CD's which can be send around. For India, Neel and Sankar have offered to do this - which is great. We can send them a lot of DVD's and they can send it around. But we need someone in the US, Brazil etc too! Who's up for this? On Tuesday 27 July 2010 16:29:23 Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:

It's my understanding that some countries have a vendor that burns and ships openSUSE media for a nominal fee. India included. Perhaps we should set up a page listing these vendors or individual contacts in regions that people can reference? Just an idea.

A good idea. Any volunteer for starting to create such a page?