On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 15:43:22 Chuck Payne wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Andreas Jaeger <a...@novell.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 17:58:23 Stephen Shaw wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 02:40, Andreas Jaeger <a...@novell.com> wrote:
> >> > On Saturday, April 02, 2011 23:37:01 Helen South wrote:
> >> >> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Joe Brandt <joe.bra...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> >> > I am a student at State College of Florida and an openSuse
> >> >> > advocate. Would it be possible to get 30 @ 11.4 DVD's for my
> >> >> > computer science teacher to distribute to his classes? Any
> >> >> > stickers, pens or other swag would be appreciated and dispersed as
> >> >> > well.
> >> >>
> >> >> Joe, there's a request form here:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://software.opensuse.org/promodvd
> >> >>
> >> >> which will go directly to the right person.
> >> >
> >> > It will indeed - but the logistics for sending out DVDs worldwide
> >> > incl. the overhead of customs, is so great that we concentrate on
> >> > larger events and orders and cannot fullfill smaller requests. 30
> >> > DVDs is just too few for us to handle at the moment.
> >> >
> >> > Sorry,
> >> > Andreas
> >>
> >> Is that something we could sent out of Provo instead and avoid some of
> >> that overhead?
> >
> > We're sending out of Provo already ;)
> >
> > Still it's overhead to handle each and every request.
> >
> > Btw. packaging size for DVDs is 100 DVDs, so that's why we use that
> > number. I'm considering to change the package size to 50 DVDs for the
> > next bunch,
> >
> > Andreas
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> AJ,
>
> In the future, if you get such a small number why not reach out the a
> local Ambassador and ask them to send DVD. I would have been happy
> too, put this gives the ambassador a chance to reach out the the
> person requesting to help answer any questions they might have and
> help promote openSUSE, really showing them that "Your are not alone".
> Plus, maybe the ambassador can set up something with that person,
> giving them slides, posters, hands out.
>
> I still have a lot of Zypper Cheat Sheets and One Page Linux Manual
> that I was planning to send with them to this school.
Yes, this is a good thought and I'll do that.
On the other hand if we advertize this too broad, we might get overwhelmed ;-(
Andreas
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