Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies
- To: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>
- Cc: shaleh@livenet.net, targon@targonia.com, visicalc@hotmail.com, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Paying CD vendors for freebies
- From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@zetnet.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 09:53:58 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19990523095358.B17182@wyvern>
- Mail-followup-to: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>, shaleh@livenet.net, targon@targonia.com, visicalc@hotmail.com, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Reply-to: adrian.bridgett@zetnet.co.uk
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19990522161000.A13008@debian.org>; from Joseph Carter on Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:10:01PM -0700
- References: <[🔎] 19990521140822.A4295@debian.org> <[🔎] 199905221525.LAA09928@clifford.livenet.net> <[🔎] 19990522161000.A13008@debian.org>
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 04:10:01PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
[snip]
> Yes, but we tend to run out quickly, too quickly. A bit of reference,
> CD's (usually a CD sells for about US$2, they cost US$.43 to make last
> time I checked---for a run of 1000), well their donations are pretty
> significant. 500 sets, 4 CDs a set, that adds up.
>
> What I'm wondering is if we could make arrangements with them for
> something that would involve us paying for some of the CDs so we'd have
> more. At LinuxWorld, we really did not have enough to go around and the
> ones we had were gone in 30 minutes.
How about having a donation box. Debian is a registered charity after all.
With a suggested donation of a couple of dollars? I appreciate that this
might be against the freebie policy, but would serve three purposes:
a) disuade people who just pick it up because it's a freebie
b) recoup some of the costs
c) have more CDs left for the needy [1](because of a)
[1] those still on bo or rex.
Adrian
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