G'day, Just some random thoughts in a brainstorm kind of way.
I too have been following this thread for a while and wondering where it was leading. I offer the following opinions (mine and mine only!) I too got frustrated with the global shipit service some time ago and have given up on it. I have availed myself of Peter's service, he is prompt and inexpensive. Do we really need to reinvent the wheel? The infrastructure is already in place. At $2.60 I'm happy to bet that Peter is only just covering media, post and packing costs. I don't think he's getting rich off it!!! Perhaps Peter's service is only catering to the already converted? If we want to do a promo for each release, (with free CD and some nice packaging as in Shipit) I would think it comes in around $3.00 to $3.50 per CD shipped singly. While we all love Ubuntu and try to promote it at every opportunity, there has to be a good business case as well. A sponsor would be handy... say a Computer mag or duplication service... someone who's name/logo could be up there on the disk or packaging. A hand labeled generic disk is NOT going to cut it with the local school principal or small business owner. PS... Sorry I wasn't "at" the meeting. I'm dyslexic and found the random postings VERY hard to follow. Ended up printing out the log and going through it with a couple of hi-lighters. No way I could do it in real time! 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. Jared Norris wrote: > 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 >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.791 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2753 - Release Date: 03/18/10 > 06:33:00 > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
