The FreeMedia program already exists - but it's completely volunteer based. Last month, the first month that I participated in the program, we got around 700 requests in a 2-day period where we were accepting requests for the month. The problem that we have is a lack of resources to ship out these DVD's for free. I restrict myself to the US, and even that costs me $1.31 per DVD to ship via first class mail, in addition to the cost of the media itself, and the padded mailers that I use ($1+ apiece). Such a program is not cheap, and I'm not sure how Ubuntu sustains it (unless it;s similar to ours, where we will send out the first 200 requests in a month or so). On Feb 2, 2008 6:59 PM, Zhukov Pavel <gelios@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One of the major reasons of ubuntu success it's free cd-shipping > (especially in Russia, where many people have no fast/unlimited > Internet access). So I'm start to thinking about something like > "Fedora Exchange" project. It can be system that can help people to > find nearest fedora-user who can copy > install-media/packages/local-repositories. > > It also can help people to find nearest linux/feodra gurus for help :) > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Jon Stanley Fedora Bug Wrangler jstanley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
