On Thursday, April 07, 2011 07:46:29 PM Bryen M Yunashko wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 19:32 +0200, Patrick Fey wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Bryen, > > > > Am 07.04.2011 19:22, schrieb Bryen M Yunashko: > > > As I recall, the Ship-it Program sent individual CDs to requesters. > > > That's not the same issue as what Diego is raising, where shipments > > > in bulk get flagged by customs because they're seen as shipping > > > commercial goods for resale. > > > > Canonical also sent out large batches of CDs on request. While I was > > at Hamburg university, Canonical would send us large shipments of > > 64bit CDs of their new release every October to hand out at our > > o-week. I have no idea how Canonical got these through customs, > > though. > > > > Cheers! > > > > :-) Patrick > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > Okay so I stand corrected on the assumption of how the Ship-it Program > worked. :-) But as openSUSE is donating the DVDs and has experience > in shipping worldwide, I think it would be useful to first ask the donor > how they did/do it and to work out some logistics like Jos suggested in > this thread by splitting up locations where to ship to and reduce > customs overhead there.
I got the following from our US shipment team: The main statement is (No Commercial Value, Not For Resale). We put the value of all CD's / DVD's at $0.50 each. We also put in a Harmonized Code for all items. Also all items must have a Licensing Code. For the openSUSE 11.4 dvd's we use TSU-5D002. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list