On Dec 28, 2007, at 1:06 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Dec 27, 2007 5:58 AM, David Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Dec 27, 2007 3:40 AM, William Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I occasionally get emails like the one below. There's no way I >>> have the >>> time or inclination to burn and mail out DVD's of Sage to >>> people. Does >>> anybody: >>> >>> (1) want to volunteer to do this sort of thing in exchange for >>> some >>> "shipping and handling fees"; then all such requests get >>> refereed to you, or >>> >>> (2) Is there some dot-com that does something like this for a >>> fee? >> >> >> >> >> Maybe lulu does: >> http://www.lulu.com/en/help/disc_faq >> Apparently, It has to be set up first and I don't know how easy it >> is to >> upgrade to a new version. > > This looks excellent. Basically you upload an iso of the data > dvd, and > they burn and ship it on demand for < $10/copy. This is > perfect. I could > just do this once every time we have a major release. I can add a > few > dollars on each DVD, to pay whoever actually does the work of putting > together the ISO, updating it, etc. > > David -- many thanks for tracking this down.
This does look perfect. Once this is set up, creating and uploading the iso should be a trivial task (done via a script), and if the artwork remained the same for all double-point releases that should be easy too, so I don't think a couple of dollars is worth the hassle of collecting and re-distributing it. I'll volunteer to set it up (though until 2.9.2 I'm going to be focusing on the 3d stuff). - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
