Re: [ubuntu-in] College tech-fest help..
On Jan 29, 2008 4:59 PM, Hardeep Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, where is this fest happening? I'm a pretty much linux noob > myself (still learning), would love to attend it if its in Delhi.. Its in BITS-Pilani. The fest is called Apogee. www.bits-apogee.org (Pilani is abt 6 hrs from Delhi) -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] College tech-fest help..
instead of forceing more people to install Ubuntu on > their machine. Create a General awareness about Ubuntu. > Like make a target that everyone should know what Ubuntu is in & > around your campus. it doesn't matter whether they actully use it or > not but they should know what is Ubuntu or Linux in general. > > And if someone is Deeply interested in Ubuntu offer a Ubuntu Disc. > but first create a General awareness Level. This sounds like a pretty sane advice, even I would confess wasting a CD like that, for some reason i ordered both 32 and 64bit versions, the 64bit CD is still lying around gathering dust. I guess the college fest organiser should think about getting a few LCDs on rent for the day and run videos of Ubuntu Desktop Cube, beryl and compiz fusion. If possible keep a demo computer with Ubuntu installed on it, so people could get the feel of how it works. Next to that should be an image burning stall where one could get an image burned for free on a blank CD. Plus there should be a linux quiz where they can give away branded Ubuntu CD's (if they can get 10 or 15 maybe) as a prize By the way, where is this fest happening? I'm a pretty much linux noob myself (still learning), would love to attend it if its in Delhi.. - Original Message - From: "Gaurish Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ubuntu India Local Community" Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] College tech-fest help.. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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[snip] so now that we've saved a small tidy sum of money for canonical, who could persuade them to spend that more fruitfully for the event? your distro is free. our blood, sweat, tears are free. for everything else there's canonical. ;-) niyam bhushan -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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Parthan SR wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Prakash Advani wrote: > >> Prateek, >> >> I work for Canonical India and l can organise CDs for you for sure, cant >> promise more but will try. Send me a personal email of how many you need. >> > Congratz Prakash (Jace just confirmed me the news ;) ).Hope Canonical > India will be able to support the Loco Team in future. :) > I am really excited. We are always open to hear what we need to do. HCL just launched a Rs. 13,990 laptop, available at Croma.. it runs Edubuntu :) > IMHO, distributing Live CDs to students just as Free CDs doesn't solve > any purpose at all. We have been distributing CDs since breezy days, but > not even 5-10% of them actually use those CDs after the first time. This > made us actually stop distributing CDs. Rather when we go to colleges, > We give them a few, ask them to save the image in a PC with CD burner > and allow the students to burn CDs from the image, if they are > interested to try out. > I agree, if the student put some effort in it, then they will try it out.. otherwise its a tea coaster ;-) > When you distribute something free, everybody wants to get one for them > without even bothering whether it will be actually useful for them. So, > my advice would be to go for the Toaster, because they have to buy a CD > and burn it up. They will do only if they are really interested in > getting a CD, else won't mind. Thus we do not actually waste Canonical's > money on shipping CDs which are distributed to people who have no real > interest in making use of them. Canonical has to spend around 80 Euros > to send you the CDs, if am not wrong in remembering the cost of sending > us the CDs for foss.in. The money can be otherwise used for useful > causes. Even if you get it free, some one else is paying for it. As a > responsible Ubunteros, we have to make the best use of facilities > available to us, especially when it involves some one else's money. > > - -- > With Regards, > Parthan aka Technofreak > > [GPG]:0x2FF01026 > [web]:http://technofreak.in > [blog]:blog.technofreak.in > [photos]:photos.technofreak.in > [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) > [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHnqDqk4vYYS/wECYRAmBTAJ0VIaqj2EWc233vjAQYZ9JDRRrPxACePVrj > n1BIqLoluIFcHb4MnGAWttY= > =Oz1E > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > > -- Partner Manager - Central Asia Mobile: +91 98202 82922 www.ubuntu.com - Linux for Human Beings -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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List, I am against FREE cd sent by shipit service as most of them are going waste. instead, the whole process should be made manual & respective LoCo teams should approve requests. this step would minimize waste of resources. i myself tried distributing around 10 disc twice or thrice first among my school mates & then in my college. the response is disappointing. most people returned the DISC to me the second day, while others had put it to innovative uses. 1) using it as a reflectors in cycles 2) keeping in their school bag & using it as mirror(as mirrors were not allowed our school) 3) in college people were more sane, so they just returned me the DISC saying, "yaar isme toh kuch samajth nahi aaya, apni to toh windows hi theek hai", For non hindi speakers it means. "I Didn't understand how to use it, windows is best for me as it is easy to use" Now, i suggest first to create a Hype like not giving the cd's, and showing off the Desktop effects & other features of Ubuntu which are far more ahead from windows platform.the most usefull features that even a hardcore windows fan virus free working environment. its just a clue you and let or imagination fly & compile some other features offered Ubuntu which are suitable in our context & then start a advertisement campaign around your campus. so by this people would be curious about Ubuntu, and whenever they get a chance they would love to try it out. So to sum up, instead of forceing more people to install Ubuntu on their machine. Create a General awareness about Ubuntu. Like make a target that everyone should know what Ubuntu is in & around your campus. it doesn't matter whether they actully use it or not but they should know what is Ubuntu or Linux in general. And if someone is Deeply interested in Ubuntu offer a Ubuntu Disc. but first create a General awareness Level. Regards, Gaurish Sharma -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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Ah, the whole 'Shipit' dilemma. Firstly, i'd like to say that i am strongly against people misusing shipit, and have tried very hard to discourage people from ordering the cds. With this in mind, i hope everyone bears with me for a moment : As almost all college-fests go these days, 'Apogee' involves lots of prizes. Most events have huge cash prizes (atleast for a college event, IMHO) - i am talking of anything in the range of 1-50K, sometimes even more than that. 'Big' events like these attract lots of crowds. We dont _want_ to have such an event, partly because we are not funded by anyone, but mainly because it will simply not serve the purpose. Instead, we thought of attracting the 'mildly interested' audience - those who have heard of linux, seen it on their friends' computers, or might have even just installed it. So, thinking what we could offer as 'prizes' for showing up and winning these events, the first thing that came to my mind was 'CDs'. CDs also happen to be the 'easiest' solution - since canonical _already_ ships them. What i mean is, i think CDs are a good thing to give away because of the easy availability and high impact. Another question is how do we attract the 'veterans' - those who are experienced enough - what might attract them? As pointed earlier, merchandise is hard to come-by in India, so that might be a good start. But i guess even that might not prove to be sufficient enough. If anyone can come up with something more attractive or innovative, i'd be really happy to hear it. The main problem is actually vying for attention - how do we persuade people to come when another event being held concurrently is offering a prize of 50k. Hope i got the point across... -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sudhanshu Raheja wrote: > Hi guys, > > You have a number of valid points in the discussion here, but I would beg to differ from you on a couple of things. > > The aim of giving free cds is to make it easier for people to start using Ubuntu. The aim of giving free cds is not that more than 5-10% should use is after the first time (I'm not sure how you got that figure), but that when somebody gets a free cd, they tell others about it, who tell others. We have been hanging around in Ubuntu since Warty days, when the entire idea of Free ship-it was ever born. During Breezy and Dapper days, Canonical used to send how much ever CDs people asked for. What enthusiastic people did was they ordered in numbers like 100, 200 without even having a clue of how to use them. I know people who still have 100s of breezy CDs lying in their dungeons. Then, a lot of feedbacks from the community (like us) made Canonical realize that their resources were going waste and idea of Free Shipit wasn't being utilized correctly, so they decided to reduce the maximum amount of CD that can be ordered to 10/20, which still got reduced to 1/2 when Feisty was released. > > So basically the idea is to have as many copies floating around as possible, so that people find it when they need one. I found my copy from a friend who never ever installed it. You yourself stand as an example ;) > > Now coming on to not wasting other people's money, that is quite a good point. So what are the alternatives? IMHO, broadband availability and hence downloading a CD image is no more a luxury in urban places. So, when you download loads and loads of movies from torrents why don't you download a Ubuntu CD and share? It is indeed written on top of CDs sent through ship-it that "Please Recycle". We strongly suggest you to get a CD and share with maximum amount of people you can. Use and pass it on (take a backup of the image for future). > > One would be to buy cds yourself, write them and distribute it. > > One would be to find the hardware vendor, where people in the college buy most of the pc's from, and ask him to sponsor it. And how. You ask him to pay only for CDs, say 500. Then you find a cd writer, and write all those yourself, and when you distribute the cds, you put it the sponsor details too. I know it works. Yep, you can ask some of the sponsors (who do not themselves have an Distribution) to sponsor for the CDs, it shouldn't cost them much. Then ask them to print a CD sticker or a small Logo, burn Ubuntu into CDs and put the "CDs sponsored by foobar" on top of it. Or you can even write it with a marker pen. > > The end user has to get a free CD. Someone who hasn't converted to Ubuntu doesn't give a sh** who paid for it. If you're going to make them do it like you are suggesting, the conversion rate would be even less than the what you have observed. Nobody ever cared and as a result, Canonical's money was getting wasted. They realized it and took appropriate measures (only 1 or 2 CDs, only for registered Ubuntu users). > > When you're trying to convert people, you need to think of *marketing* not *saving money*. Nobody is really trying to convert people here. He do advocacy sometimes, not evangelism. We use Ubuntu, feel it works well for us and want others to benefit too, provided they are interested to try it out. If they want to, we help them to. Else, who cares a ** of what they use. We are passionate Ubunteros, but not fanatical. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHnrZ4k4vYYS/wECYRAsnfAKCKxkVNOpAzzKvJe2TGDsvz8LUUAwCgiY2f OjP8VGQrh8fk5pEpG5qOC0E= =PtJ1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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Hi guys, You have a number of valid points in the discussion here, but I would beg to differ from you on a couple of things. The aim of giving free cds is to make it easier for people to start using Ubuntu. The aim of giving free cds is not that more than 5-10% should use is after the first time (I'm not sure how you got that figure), but that when somebody gets a free cd, they tell others about it, who tell others. So basically the idea is to have as many copies floating around as possible, so that people find it when they need one. I found my copy from a friend who never ever installed it. Now coming on to not wasting other people's money, that is quite a good point. So what are the alternatives? One would be to buy cds yourself, write them and distribute it. One would be to find the hardware vendor, where people in the college buy most of the pc's from, and ask him to sponsor it. And how. You ask him to pay only for CDs, say 500. Then you find a cd writer, and write all those yourself, and when you distribute the cds, you put it the sponsor details too. I know it works. The end user has to get a free CD. Someone who hasn't converted to Ubuntu doesn't give a sh** who paid for it. If you're going to make them do it like you are suggesting, the conversion rate would be even less than the what you have observed. When you're trying to convert people, you need to think of *marketing* not *saving money*. Regards, Sudhanshu -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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On Tuesday 29 January 2008 09:13, Parthan SR wrote: >IMHO, distributing Live CDs to students just as Free CDs doesn't solve >any purpose at all. We have been distributing CDs since breezy days, > but not even 5-10% of them actually use those CDs after the first > time. This made us actually stop distributing CDs. Rather when we go > to colleges, We give them a few, ask them to save the image in a PC > with CD burner and allow the students to burn CDs from the image, if > they are interested to try out. ++1 (I was about to post a similar email to the list) >When you distribute something free, everybody wants to get one for > them without even bothering whether it will be actually useful for > them. So, my advice would be to go for the Toaster, because they have > to buy a CD and burn it up. They will do only if they are really > interested in getting a CD, else won't mind. Thus we do not actually > waste Canonical's money on shipping CDs which are distributed to > people who have no real interest in making use of them. Canonical has > to spend around 80 Euros to send you the CDs, if am not wrong in > remembering the cost of sending us the CDs for foss.in. The money can > be otherwise used for useful causes. Even if you get it free, some > one else is paying for it. As a responsible Ubunteros, we have to > make the best use of facilities available to us, especially when it > involves some one else's money. Exactly!, and this should be read and understood by those who order CDs for free from Shipit or even those who share the URL with those who want to get it for free. These days, I recommend my friends to ask for a copy from me, and give it to them on a CD-R. Prateek, if you are organizing a talk, find out how many would be actually interested in learning about FOSS. Find out how many show interest to continue something in that domain. Most of my friends in college tend to slip back to windows, due to curriculum. Not because it is difficult for them, but just because, they don't have time to do something different from what they have been doing and they don't want to spend much time, even if they had to do so. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prakash Advani wrote: > Prateek, > > I work for Canonical India and l can organise CDs for you for sure, cant > promise more but will try. Send me a personal email of how many you need. Congratz Prakash (Jace just confirmed me the news ;) ).Hope Canonical India will be able to support the Loco Team in future. :) IMHO, distributing Live CDs to students just as Free CDs doesn't solve any purpose at all. We have been distributing CDs since breezy days, but not even 5-10% of them actually use those CDs after the first time. This made us actually stop distributing CDs. Rather when we go to colleges, We give them a few, ask them to save the image in a PC with CD burner and allow the students to burn CDs from the image, if they are interested to try out. When you distribute something free, everybody wants to get one for them without even bothering whether it will be actually useful for them. So, my advice would be to go for the Toaster, because they have to buy a CD and burn it up. They will do only if they are really interested in getting a CD, else won't mind. Thus we do not actually waste Canonical's money on shipping CDs which are distributed to people who have no real interest in making use of them. Canonical has to spend around 80 Euros to send you the CDs, if am not wrong in remembering the cost of sending us the CDs for foss.in. The money can be otherwise used for useful causes. Even if you get it free, some one else is paying for it. As a responsible Ubunteros, we have to make the best use of facilities available to us, especially when it involves some one else's money. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHnqDqk4vYYS/wECYRAmBTAJ0VIaqj2EWc233vjAQYZ9JDRRrPxACePVrj n1BIqLoluIFcHb4MnGAWttY= =Oz1E -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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On Jan 28, 2008 4:28 PM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then, keep a CD burner open in all the Toaster > machines, people just pop-in their Empty CDs and get it burnt into > whatever Ubuntu version/arch they want. > > gr8 !!! will try to implement in my college :) -- Dinesh Uthayakumar Final Year Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology Velammal Engineering College Chennai -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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Prateek Sharma wrote: > Hello everyone, > We have started a 'Linux Users Club' in my college BITS-Pilani. We > started out last semester in September. Just as is the case with > almost every LUG, our primary aim is to build and sustain a strong > community of Linux users on campus. > There is a college tech-fest 'Apogee' coming up in March, and we, as > Bits Linux Users Club are planning to hold several events. However, > participation is high only when there is some incentive for the > participants/winners, and hence we need to give away some prizes. > Problem is, we don't have any resources. > So, does anyone here know if companies like Canonical, Red Hat etc. > will be willing to help us out by providing us with CD's and other > merchandise to give away? Whom do i contact for the same? Will > Ubuntu-marketing be able to help? > > Thanks in advance. > Prateek, I work for Canonical India and l can organise CDs for you for sure, cant promise more but will try. Send me a personal email of how many you need. Regards Prakash > Prateek Sharma > [BITS Linux Users Club : http://groups.google.com/group/bluc] > > PS: The google group is pretty much stagnant because almost all of the > communication is held on the internal forums etc. > > -- Partner Manager - Central Asia Mobile: +91 98202 82922 www.ubuntu.com - Linux for Human Beings -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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Hi Prateek, On Jan 28, 2008 4:46 PM, Prateek Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone have any other ideas regarding how to attract crowds?? Actually > we are targeting two categories : the noobs, who havent installed > linux - the cds are for them ; and those who having been using it for > quite a while. Any ideas for the latter category? > My 2 cents : You are going the right track. For the noobs, distributing Live CDs (or Live-cum-install CDs) is the best bet. They need to play around a bit and get comfortable. Know that Linux can be an alternative to Windows. For the experienced users : These are the poeple who have crossed the stage of trying out. Most are even active developers. For them, giving out merchandise is a great idea. Especially since this is not so easily available in India. Thanks, Raseel -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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Hello, First for disks, you probably know that, cd shiping time is too long around one month or more. Best idea, buy your own blank cds. prices are very low, mediam quality cds are available for rs 5.00(inr). And another answer for attacrt audience: Now days linux radically simple and simple every day, Anyone able to use it. But main problem is trouble shooting, For like some one have not the modem driver or sound card driver.The drivers are easily available in internet. But due to nature of newbie, they are not interested to do it. Some of them think, other os's is better, They think, Just insert CD in ROM and double click and that's it. If you really want to more Linux audience, then first you have need to provide a better support for them. And for who have not uses Linux for long time, I think, you attract those of them by giving some programing knowledge, If non professionals are contribute to project, then more chance to get more support and new innovative software's. Above ideas are mine, some one will not probably agree with me. But this problem are really pain full for new user. Thanks, Vishal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vishal.benetonfilms.com -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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On Jan 28, 2008 4:28 PM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > As Sankarshan poked me about, why don't you try to get each ISO copy of > all the Ubuntu versions/archs and set up a set of machines to act as > Freedom Toasters[1]. Then, keep a CD burner open in all the Toaster > machines, people just pop-in their Empty CDs and get it burnt into > whatever Ubuntu version/arch they want. This is needs minimal management > and resources. You can even buy empty CDs in lot, and sell it near the > Toaster of you feel it is hard for people to get empty CDs on their own. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Toaster Wow, great idea!! But unfortunately, may not work in our case because people just dont have blank cds here. And they arent ready to buy one. I mean there are tons of iso's etc floating around on the LAN, yet everyone wants a 'CD'.. dunno why. Also, 'get a blank CD and get ubuntu' sounds less catchy than 'attend xyz and get an Ubuntu cd' . Still, we'll give it a shot. Anyone have any other ideas regarding how to attract crowds?? Actually we are targeting two categories : the noobs, who havent installed linux - the cds are for them ; and those who having been using it for quite a while. Any ideas for the latter category? -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As Sankarshan poked me about, why don't you try to get each ISO copy of all the Ubuntu versions/archs and set up a set of machines to act as Freedom Toasters[1]. Then, keep a CD burner open in all the Toaster machines, people just pop-in their Empty CDs and get it burnt into whatever Ubuntu version/arch they want. This is needs minimal management and resources. You can even buy empty CDs in lot, and sell it near the Toaster of you feel it is hard for people to get empty CDs on their own. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Toaster - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHnbVek4vYYS/wECYRAr6nAJ9ULKGPNMmJPS/eg7zUIAC8CJzVeACbBnRN gteetY6bdl/YstQOr3FAJgg= =ayPv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prateek Sharma wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 1:33 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, if you are giving away CDs at a FOSS oriented event, I guess we >> can ask Canonical to ship 500 odd CDs to you. Will that suffice? > > That'd be great. Im afraid a special request at shipit might Actually > i was hoping that ubuntu-marketing might be interested because i saw > colleges/schools as part of their 'shock and awe' campaign. What > better way than at a tech-fest :) But even then you have to pay custom charges, which for 500 Rs will come to around 1500 Rs. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHnaU3k4vYYS/wECYRAiO7AJ9TsCWKyq7eX1uRWFANvMtvpuL78ACfbdqO hn4AEpCwUE8hN+wz7wMpAXA= =VgXO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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On Jan 28, 2008 1:33 PM, Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if you are giving away CDs at a FOSS oriented event, I guess we > can ask Canonical to ship 500 odd CDs to you. Will that suffice? That'd be great. Im afraid a special request at shipit might Actually i was hoping that ubuntu-marketing might be interested because i saw colleges/schools as part of their 'shock and awe' campaign. What better way than at a tech-fest :) . Thanks a lot anyways -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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Canonical Did that for a College Event.. We got 100 Copies shipped to us to give it away to students.. -- Jay "Impossible Is Nothing" http://www.amonks.in -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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> > I am afraid that Canonical might not be ready to sponsor unless it has > > commercial benefits for them. They will rather ask you to get the > > support of Local community. May be you can try with Red Hat or Sun, but > > they might expect you to provide them some stage space and privileges. I > > am not aware of contacts to them, but you should be able to get some in > > GLUG-BOM list or ILUGCal list. > > Oh. Actually a reply to my question on ubuntu-marketing mailing list > asked me to see if ubuntu-Loco might be able to help me out. Btw, what > sort of privileges do these companies need? Well, if you are giving away CDs at a FOSS oriented event, I guess we can ask Canonical to ship 500 odd CDs to you. Will that suffice? Regards, BG -- Baishampayan Ghose [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
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On Jan 28, 2008 9:32 AM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am afraid that Canonical might not be ready to sponsor unless it has > commercial benefits for them. They will rather ask you to get the > support of Local community. May be you can try with Red Hat or Sun, but > they might expect you to provide them some stage space and privileges. I > am not aware of contacts to them, but you should be able to get some in > GLUG-BOM list or ILUGCal list. Oh. Actually a reply to my question on ubuntu-marketing mailing list asked me to see if ubuntu-Loco might be able to help me out. Btw, what sort of privileges do these companies need? Thanks. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] College tech-fest help..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prateek Sharma wrote: > So, does anyone here know if companies like Canonical, Red Hat etc. > will be willing to help us out by providing us with CD's and other > merchandise to give away? Whom do i contact for the same? Will > Ubuntu-marketing be able to help I am afraid that Canonical might not be ready to sponsor unless it has commercial benefits for them. They will rather ask you to get the support of Local community. May be you can try with Red Hat or Sun, but they might expect you to provide them some stage space and privileges. I am not aware of contacts to them, but you should be able to get some in GLUG-BOM list or ILUGCal list. - -- With Regards, Parthan aka Technofreak [GPG]:0x2FF01026 [web]:http://technofreak.in [blog]:blog.technofreak.in [photos]:photos.technofreak.in [irc]:teKnofreak @ irc.freenode.net (#linux-india) [mobile]:BLR +919845446647 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHnVPFk4vYYS/wECYRAkGOAJ9RPl0DemL4KL9As1eS2V7bIL9BZQCfa3ch p/bxQbESPTdmDUhaUsYRLxY= =WjSN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] College tech-fest help..
Hi Prateek, I am a part of a small venture, The OpenSourceDeal ( www.opensourcedeal.com), and we would like to help you guys out in whatever small way we can. Could you please let me know your requirements offline at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Raseel www.opensourcedeal.com/blog/ www.raseel.in/blog On Jan 27, 2008 11:00 PM, Prateek Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 27, 2008 8:19 PM, Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Canonical seems to be too far to ask for help. The best you can do is > > ask friends around in the campus who may have ordered CDs of Ubuntu > > from shipit and collect those 'extra' CDs. > > > > Alternatively, you could ask "someone" to SPONSOR the CDs. Either at > > lower prices or at the cost of advertising (Moser Baer? perhaps ;) ) > > > > Ofcourse, that would mean, each LUG member volunteers to share his / her > > CD-RW drive to burn copies of the disc. > > Well, since we are college students, i don't think we can chip-in for > the prizes. Buying CDs and burning them isnt really an option. Plus we > need something more 'attractive' too.. I'm sure ubuntu t-shirts etc > would be a huge hit. > I'll talk to the organizers about 'funding'.. in any case, whom should > i contact at canonical?? > > I personally think that this fest is a great opportunity to showcase > linux to engineering students, who sadly dont know much about it. With > enough effort and luck, we might get almost the whole college to use > linux, which i think will be great. > > Also btw, we were thinking of keeping a guest lecture..anyone related > to linux/Free software. Any ideas? Anyone of you interested? It'd be > great if some developer can enlighten us.. > > Thanks for all the responses. > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] College tech-fest help..
On Jan 27, 2008 8:19 PM, Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Canonical seems to be too far to ask for help. The best you can do is > ask friends around in the campus who may have ordered CDs of Ubuntu > from shipit and collect those 'extra' CDs. > > Alternatively, you could ask "someone" to SPONSOR the CDs. Either at > lower prices or at the cost of advertising (Moser Baer? perhaps ;) ) > > Ofcourse, that would mean, each LUG member volunteers to share his / her > CD-RW drive to burn copies of the disc. Well, since we are college students, i don't think we can chip-in for the prizes. Buying CDs and burning them isnt really an option. Plus we need something more 'attractive' too.. I'm sure ubuntu t-shirts etc would be a huge hit. I'll talk to the organizers about 'funding'.. in any case, whom should i contact at canonical?? I personally think that this fest is a great opportunity to showcase linux to engineering students, who sadly dont know much about it. With enough effort and luck, we might get almost the whole college to use linux, which i think will be great. Also btw, we were thinking of keeping a guest lecture..anyone related to linux/Free software. Any ideas? Anyone of you interested? It'd be great if some developer can enlighten us.. Thanks for all the responses. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] College tech-fest help..
On Sunday 27 January 2008 18:50, Prateek Sharma wrote: > So, does anyone here know if companies like Canonical, Red Hat etc. >will be willing to help us out by providing us with CD's and other >merchandise to give away? Whom do i contact for the same? Will >Ubuntu-marketing be able to help? Canonical seems to be too far to ask for help. The best you can do is ask friends around in the campus who may have ordered CDs of Ubuntu from shipit and collect those 'extra' CDs. Alternatively, you could ask "someone" to SPONSOR the CDs. Either at lower prices or at the cost of advertising (Moser Baer? perhaps ;) ) Ofcourse, that would mean, each LUG member volunteers to share his / her CD-RW drive to burn copies of the disc. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] College tech-fest help..
>So, does anyone here know if companies like Canonical, Red Hat etc. > will be willing to help us out by providing us with CD's and other > merchandise to give away? Whom do i contact for the same? Will > Ubuntu-marketing be able to help? I doubt it you can get commercial help. Why not simply download the DVD or CD and burn 'em to give away? Or you can place a special order on ShipIt. And about merchandise, you can t-shirts printed yourself with F/OSS logos or mottos (or have this sponsored by some sponsor of your tech-fest). let your imagination fly buddy :) Pratul -- dum vivimus, vivamus http://pratul.in -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in