Good Evening, Thanks everyone for the responses. I probably didn't explain it all too well last night but I realise there are services out there charging nominal fees for CDs but I was thinking of trying to get it to the regional (and those unable to access boradband easily) a quicker, FREE way to get a copy of Lucid Lynx (even if the fee is nominal it's sometimes means people won't opt for it because it is not always easy to transfer the funds wihtout effort). It's not meant to replace the "official" CDs but just trying to speed up the process (and who as a home user really NEEDS and official CD?). I was going to offer this free to anyone and everyone all by myself but realised it might chalk up some costs but if more people were willing to chip in then it would spread it out. Thank you James for your offer I've noted it down and anyone else willing to chip in please drop me a line (again either on the list or off, also on IRC). I just thought it would be a nice way to quickly and cheaply spread the Ubuntu cheer.
So I guess this is a shoutout now to those of you on the list who do not have access to broadband easily, please start letting me know if you want a free burnt copy of lucid lynx. It's a LTS so it should be pretty stable from release (touch wood) and I'm willing to take orders of which version of Ubuntu you want (k/x/ed/ubuntu) just nothing too obscure please. All details will be kept confidential (obvious whomever ends up posting you the CD will need an address, PO BOX is fine) so feel free to email me off the list or message me on IRC. Regards, Jared Norris On 16 March 2010 07:17, James Beake <jamesbe...@moonmarsh.com> wrote: > Sounds like a nice way to provide a value add for regional Aus and I'm happy > to be part of the experiment. > > I'm prepared to fund $20 worth of CDs. Ie, I''ll burn / ship 8 CDs @2.50 > each. More if the potage is less :) > > Is there any Ubuntu CD art work we can access? > > cheers > James > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Jared Norris <jrnor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Good evening all, >> >> With the release of Lucid Lynx approaching us sooner rather than later >> one idea I had that I would like to put out there to the mailing list >> was a bit of a Shipit type service (see https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ for >> the official version) that aims at delivering the new release much >> sooner than the quoted 10 weeks from the website. What I am proposing >> is that some users in metropolitan Australia with quicker download >> speeds and higher download quota limits burn a copy of the new release >> and then post it to another user who might be stuck on dial up or >> regional 3G services with very low download limits. >> >> I would like to see if this sort of a service would be useful to our >> regional users or not and I would also be willing to coordinate this >> service. I have costed the idea and to post a CD to anywhere in >> Australia from anywhere in Australia would cost $2.50 (this includes >> the packaging and the postage costs) and also the cost the CD itself. >> How this would be paid would be dependant upon how many people were >> wanting this service and how many people were willing to help out. >> >> If you are interested please feel free to either drop me an email (on >> or off the list I don't mind) or pop into IRC (as explained >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/IRC - I'm usually lurking, my >> nick is head_victim) and just send me a message. > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
