> There are two questions here: > > * Is a listing of online vendors useful? > > I believe the answer is yes, because FreeMedia cannot guarantee > service to every single person that wants Fedora, and because in > some parts of the world it is much more convenient to pay a small > fee for media. We want to give people every possible route to get > Fedora even when a download or FreeMedia shipping is not possible. This is perfect. > * How can we better maintain the listing of online vendors? > > Susmit, you are working on some improvements to how we track online > vendors, correct? Yes. I am going to push it out latest by next month. > It seems like it would be an easy task for either > contributors on the FreeMedia or Marketing teams to: > (1) send a form letter email to all vendors on the list a week > before each release to (a) remind them of our release date and > encouraging them to grab the new release for offering their > customers, and (b) inform them that we'll be checking back within > 1-2 weeks to ensure they have the latest copy available. > (2) go through the current list within a week or two after a release > to ensure that they've followed through, and if not, deactivate them > from the listing and send a second email saying we'll restore them > when they send us an email confirming they're providing the latest > Fedora again. That is a nice idea and easily doable. Let's do it then. >> > IMHO there must be one place to get Media and for which we as Fedora >> > Project need to take care for: >> > - http://fedoraproject.org/ $COUNTRY /get-fedora >> > and it's mirror! >> >> I am not sure what do you mean. >> Do you mean we don't need the offline vendors at all? >> There are countries, say India where bandwidth charges are exorbitant >> and there are vendors who sell it from 20INR. >> In fact, we are thinking of promoting them better so to make number of >> freemedia requests less. > > That's right. It doesn't make sense to me to restrict Fedora > distribution just to places with excellent download bandwidth. > >> > Also imho a vendor who sells fedora media (expect the free media >> > project) should donate us with the revenue he earns with "our" >> > stuff (Code, Artwork, usage of Trademark etc.). But that's only my >> > opinion; also my opinion is that there should be only FEDORA where >> > you get medias OR official authorized PARTNER (!= vendor) ... >> >> Yes, ideally they should donate us something. >> But the licensing (GPL and most others) and current trademark >> guidelines *does* allow others to sell Fedora (and the codes) >> legally. > > We cannot and should not demand that anyone donate to Fedora for sales > of free software. I don't even think we should think of it as > "ideal." You are right. Thanks. >> I think if we keep a tab on them and list their prices against their >> listing, they will be forced to bring down the prices. > > We shouldn't concern ourselves with market pricing pressures. That is > a problem that will solve itself according to demand. It is true that we don't want such thing. I hate that idea myself. But I was thinking about a specific case. Say, there are fifty such vendors in a country. So a person willing to buy a media must browse 50 different sites to find the cheapest one. It is highly possible that he will give up and request a freemedia after he finds first ten sites offer the disk at 200INR (5USD) whereas the 50th site may offer the disk for 30 INR. -- Regards, Susmit. ============================================= http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:susmit ============================================= Sent from Maharashtra, India _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
