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