[Debian-uk] DVDs & CDs for Expo2002

[Bastien Nocera]

Heya,

On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 11:42, Philip Hands wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Obviously, I should have sorted this out earlier, but last week turned
> out to be pretty hectic for me, so it didn't happen.
> 
> I think I may be just early enough to get away with it, except that John
> Winters is obviously busy with RedHat so has only limited time.

Cough. That's "Red Hat", 2 words ;)

<snip>
> We got left with about half of those last year, IIRC, but 2.2 was pretty
> stale at that point, whereas 3.0 is fresh out of the oven.  I think that
> was too many source anyway, and this time around we're going to have to
> charge about 20 quid for the full 14 CDs, so presumably that will knock
> demand down a little more.
> 
> So what do people think about selling the 2 CD sets?  Is it better to do
> that than sell out completely, which seems like the alternative?  Should
> we bother with source at all?  How about some sort of voucher scheme,
> redeemable with John --- I think he'd be willing to cut us a favourable
> rate, but would need to confirm that with him.

If he had business card sized CDs, I guess that would prove popular.
Doesn't take much time to burn, and you could sell that for one or 2
quids (dunno how much a blank one of these would be).

Cheers

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
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