On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:12 -0500, Jon Stanley wrote: > 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). It's done volume based because the cd's are not that expensive. As an example for me a dvd will cost $0.50 AUD shipping it will cost me $0.50 AUD locally anywhere in Australia. The most expensive is the special envelopes which are made for cd/dvd's which cost $1.00 each. Karlie will be able to explain more about volume since she is involved with the sponsored media aspect of freemedia. Cheers, Marc -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
