Peter, Thanks for the information, with those sorts of numbers I don't think it's really a viable option to run it free permanently to all and sundry (quick calculations in my head, 3 CDs a day, $2 a CD equals ROUGHLY $2000 a year). So unless someone is willing to put up $2000 a year I'd say keep up the good work, obviously I under estimated the willingness of people to pay for the delivery. I would still like to press forward with the free CDs for the Lucid release as a promotional thing for the release to try and get it out there quicker and easier for a limited period of time (pretty much limited by how many orders we get, if we get a large number it will end sooner sort of thing). I was thinking if by the time the release comes around and we have a lot of spare CDs to distribute after the orders have been taken care of we might try and tee up a notice on your website at some stage but I think we can cross that bridge a bit later down the track.
If anyone has any ideas how we can get this out to people that would benefit from free CDs for the Lucid release please let me know. Regards, Jared On 18 March 2010 23:37, peter baker <jellyw...@gmail.com> wrote: > hey guys > > I have been following the discussion on a local Shipit service for regional > users with interest. I setup www.ubuntu.net.au a couple of years ago with > the aim of making ubuntu available to people who have hassles downloading or > burning the distro themsleves. I get quite a few orders from really remote > communities, esp in WA so I guess it is doing what it is meant to do. > > how popular is the service? I get around 30 unique visitors to the site > every day. from that I usually get 1 or 2 orders/day. most of the orders > come via paypal although I do accept stamps in the mail. I get some lovely > comments via letters that people send me. so its not a lot of orders but it > is consistent and it is growing > > so. I think your free aussie shipit service for ubuntu 10.04 is a great > idea. I think the thing that is going to slow you down is postage costs, > every cd costs $1.10 in postage. I'm happy to provide a description of what > you guys are doing and a link on the main page of www.ubuntu.net.au I > already link to the download section of ubuntu.com so that people can > download their own copy. > > peter > > -- > www.peter.id.au > > > -- > 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
