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Re: [LUG] Open source? What's that?

 

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:53:38 -0800
Rhia Knowles <rhiadratech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You guys give me an idea.

Has anyone a supply of official looking Ubuntu disks? You know, not
the obviously burned onto a cdr type? Just thinking if the LUG could
stage an Ubuntu day at the college (South Devon College). They had
demo tastings of Ubuntu Cola today and that + this conversation  made
me think it might be possible to talk to the Student Liason team who
usually arrange these kinda things.

This idea comes up again and again - the stumbling block is always
getting hold of "official-looking" media, whether that is CDROM or USB.


I've run out of CDs, I think maybe it would be better to wait until Ubuntu 10.04 LTS comes too, that way the students are getting a long term release version. The other issue is cost, although Canonical did give out free CDs in multiple quantities (I used to get about 25 to 50 at a time), I believe they have stopped the free Shipit service now and you have to pay for the discs which isn't cheap. Even getting our own discs professional duplicated would cost quite a bit (a couple of grand at least last time I looked into it about 3 years ago).

Still it might be worth checking if Canonical still do the shipit service.

Rob




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