Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:33:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Surplus 2.2.6 CDs available for promotional purposes. Message-ID: <19976.901207980@time.cdrom.com>
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With this latest release of FreeBSD 2.2.7 on CD, I now have over 5000 surplus 2.2.6 CD sets (the full 4 CD set) and I'd like to give them to good homes. Before you get all excited, please allow me to qualify that statement substantially: Because it would also cost something on the order of $30,000 or some significant fraction thereof to mail these out individually, and since giving them away individually isn't really what I had in mind anyway, I'm going to set the "minimum order" at 25 CDs. This doesn't mean that you should take 25 in order to get one, this means that you should *not even bother* to send me mail unless you have a very definite use for 25 or more CDs! Good uses for these CDs do not include reselling them to put your kids through college or chucking them out of a box on your local street corner since those aren't quite the kinds of advocacy activities I had in mind either. What I'm really interested in here are those truly dedicated advocates who are willing to press CDs into carefully selected people's hands and, at the minimum, give them a quick sales pitch on just what it is they're getting. Advocates who make me even happier are the those who go to some extra trouble to print up a single sheet flyer or promotional booklet describing the virtues of FreeBSD, along with any local FreeBSD resources that the recipient might be interested in, and wrapping that around a CD before giving it to its new owner. For extra brownie points, take some CDs to your local library (make sure they handle things like CDs first though), computer shop, computer swap meet, local ISP or (major brownie points!) high school or college. If you've read all of the above and still think that you fit the bill, then please send me the following information: 1. Number of CDs desired. This can be anything from 25 - 250, though if you're interested in the larger quantities then you'd also be prepared to justify your numbers. Most people are tempted to start too big and then find themselves with surplus CDs so I prefer people who are just starting out (or don't have some planned event with a definite head count) to start small and, should they do better than expected, simply ask me for more CDs. With this kind of surplus, I'm not exactly going to run out of CDs right away so don't worry about getting more should you turn out to be the world's greatest advocate or something. 2. Your postal address and daytime phone number (in case there are shipping problems). 3. Some description of the kinds of advocacy you're planning on. This will help me prevent overlap should someone else in your area be thinking of doing something similar with their own CDs. I will then send you the CDs, domestically or internationally, completely free of charge. We will pay all shipping charges, though if your customs office gets sticky about things on the far end then those problems will be for you to sort out and I probably won't be able to do much for you (we declare all such promotional items as being for promotion and having no commercial value, but some countries have been known to get sort of fussy about this - grr!). Thanks! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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