On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, susmit shannigrahi <thinklinux.ssh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is about current condition of Freemedia _India_. > Saying in a line... It is badly messed up. > > Counting from Dec 2007 to March 2008 we have *17* fulfilled request > and ~380 pending requests. > That indicates only one thing, its going to shut down in near future. > > So lets do something about it. > > My suggestions are > > 1. Let's gather from contributors how many DVDs are available for the > month and accept that many requests only. +1 for that . Loads of pending request discourage users > For that we can give contributors a week's time to declare and then > open the request form. > For a month if there is no contributor, there will be no requests. > However, thats not going to increase the quantity of media. > But this will ensure all requests are fulfilled. > > 2. Lets make posting of Blank Media compulsory for requesting Freemedia. > Thats going to cost INR 20-25 at max. > Well, that will create a negative impression no doubt, but the current > situation is not bright either. A suggestion may be is to have regional requests as as to break up requests into modules .this actually lowers the load on free media team . Existing fedora ambassadors may help in this . > For those who genuinely want to use Fedora but don't have that much > bandwidth, it may be helpful. > > > Any other suggestions? > > > > > -- > Regards, > Susmit. > > ============================================= > ssh > 0x86DD170A > http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SusmitShannigrahi > ============================================= > -- Regards Subhodip Biswas GPG key : FAEA34AB Server : pgp.mit.edu http://subhodipbiswas.wordpress.com http:/www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/SubhodipBiswas -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
