begin quotation from Tille, Andreas (in <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206121437370.22688-100000@wr-linux02.rki.ivbb.bund.de>):
> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Michael Bramer wrote:
>
> > 2.)
> > The 'put a donation, get a CD' is ok. But if a visitor show a strong
> > interest in Debian, he should get a CD for free.
> Definitely. This is what I used to do. After a ten minute talk about
> Debian I did not ask for a donation when the visitor wanted to grab
> one or more CDs. This is more or less for visitors standing outside
> the booth. Those who came inside were not asked to give something ...
Hm. I was flamed once for doing that.
> > But we must make some extra thoughts on this point. If we will not put
> > out CDs for free, we don't need thousands CDs and the Price per CD
> > will rise. Maybe we will not found/need some sponsors...
> Uhmm, yes. Something I did not think about before. May be some
> sponsors would be angry if we proceed as on Sunday. But we would have
> definitely run oput of CDs if we would have proceeded like the days
> before.
What about the following algorithm:
- divide the CD-boxes into 2*days heaps, and label them as follows: (1.1,
1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3,2 ...)
- on each day X do the following:
- only open one of the smallest-numbered boxes
- if you open a box labeled X.2 (or Y.i with Y>X and i in {1,2}) put up
the donation-sign
begin quotation from Martin Schulze (in <20020616110302.GH10832@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>):
> Michael Bramer wrote:
> > 2.)
> > The 'put a donation, get a CD' is ok. But if a visitor show a strong
> > interest in Debian, he should get a CD for free.
> >
> > But we must make some extra thoughts on this point. If we will not put
> > out CDs for free, we don't need thousands CDs and the Price per CD
> > will rise. Maybe we will not found/need some sponsors...
>
> I guess, we should reconsider what we want?
>
> a) Gain as much fund and donations from giving away CDs
>
> OR
>
> b) Spreading Debian GNU/Linux as much as possible by giving away free
> copies of the CD.
In my opinion definitely b).
cu
AW
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