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