Dear Nils,
> This is something I've been meaning to get off the ground for a
> while... anyone interested in working on this? The letter is one I had
> drawn up, and it should be ready to send out, just need to figure out
> where.
I love it ... and have some proposals as well as a few suggestions.
As for proposals a candidate for doing this is the "Un*x Fan Shop" that
(among other things) makes "TuX the Lion" used by TUG (the TeX Users Group
where I am involved). They're under <http://www.freibergnet.de/>; I have
attached a message revealing a contact TUG has used.
As for suggestions:
>> I believe that there is the potential for a good deal of business here-
>> there are approximately 400 people involved in the organization, and the
>> user base is quite large- I don't have exact numbers, but we are the #2
>> or #3 Linux distribution.
I suggest this is replaced with
I believe that there is the potential for a good deal of business here --
in the statistics Debian is the #2 or #3 Linux distribution (Red Hat is #1)
apart from the more than 400 Debian developers that are likely to be
interested straight away.
Best regards,
Kristoffer
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- To: karl@cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
- Cc: tug-board@tug.org, mw@freibergnet.de, ingo@freibergnet.de
- Subject: Re: [ms@dream.kn-bremen.de: TeX the lion]
- From: Martin Welk <mw@freibergnet.de>
- Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 19:08:45 +0100 (CET)
- Message-id: <199811291808.TAA00271@beast.freibergnet.de>
- Reply-to: tug-board@tug.org
- In-reply-to: <199811291448.JAA27977@hub.cs.umb.edu> from Karl Berry at "Nov 29, 98 09:48:50 am"
Karl Berry writes: () This mail should probably go to office@tug.org. Dick and Kiren, you can () just collect the orders and if enough come in, can make a bulk order () from Liebscher & Partners to have some on hand. Otherwise can just () fulfill the orders. As Martin Schr"oder stated before, the price is about 55 DEM. This consists of shipping & handling, and VAT. For U. S. orders, we don't have to pay VAT, but shipping is more expensive. For bulk orders greater than, let's say 20, we can offer the lion for about 45 DEM, perhaps something less (I will check that when I'm back at work on Monday), adding shipping costs. Shipping makes at least about 40 DEM as the base price + about 5 DM per kilogram of weight. About 2 lions make 1 kg, I think (or less, I simply haven't checked that yet), so the more lions are in one parcel the less are the shipping costs for each. (For example, if you take 30 lions, there will probably be 2 DEM shipping costs for one.) As we can only charge credit cards in DEM, we will bill that way. That means, your price will depend on the USD/DEM exchange rate. We usually calculate 1.70 DEM for $1, although that may be somewhat high, but will leave enough room for some up/down tendencies. We accept Visa, Euro-/Mastercard. Visa says they are working on USD billing from Germany, but it will take still some months until it can be used from every customer. You can order by e-mail to me, if you want. I can give you my PGP public key for encrypting purpose, you may also find it on the PGP key servers. Regards, Martin -- Liebscher & Partner Werbeagentur GbR // Martin Welk Advertising, Art Design & DTP // network administration Xlink Point Of Presence Freiberg // phone: (+49|0) 3731 781-387 Am St. Niclas Schacht 13 // fax: (+49|0) 3731 781-377 D-09599 Freiberg, Germany // http://www.freibergnet.de/
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