On Wed, 3 May 2006, Stephen Krenzel wrote: > Just a quick thought, feel free to knock it down if you so desire. What > about a "pass along" kind of setup. Where receivers of free media can opt in > to pass the media along when they are done installing it. For example, I > request a free media dvd and when signing up click "Yes, I'd like to pass it > along". I get added to a queue of free media distributors. When my time > comes up in the queue, I get a little e-mail saying "such and such has > requested free media, please pass it along to Address here, etc...". After I > confirm that I've passed it a long, I can be removed from the queue. With a > little logic to try and keep the sending of media fairly local I think this > could work out pretty well. Any thoughts? The full logistics behind it would > still need to be worked out, but I think I outlined the premise good enough. > The main thing I think this would help with is keeping costs for everyone > low, and keeping a constant stream of free media distributors flowing. It'd > also allow people to feel more involved with the community, as they've now > become a link in a chain of possibly many people who will receive the media > and who have already received it. My main concern would be quality control, > but that is nothing that can't be overcome :) > -Steve Interesting idea. Creative. :) I think that the workflow we're considering building could be retrofitted to make this happen. An intriguing idea. --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
