Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:36:50 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: More on Walnut Creek CDROM promotional give-aways... Message-ID: <26610.861741410@time.cdrom.com>
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Given that I seem to have generated a lot of interest in this from my recent comments about educational institutions and free CDs, I just wanted to make a few additional things clear about what I actually meant by this (which I really should have before, sorry!). I'm not looking to send single CDs to every research institute and University computing department in a given nation - not only would that raise our shipping costs tremendously, it also wouldn't be anything close to the kind of "promotion" we're trying to accomplish with this. What I'm actually interested in are people who wish to use these CDs for *active promotional purposes*, e.g. I don't want to see a box of ten or twenty (or even one) CDs locked in a desk somewhere for the private use of the elite computer center staff, I want to see that box being hand-carried (by some serious FreeBSD fan) to different carefully-picked departments (or bright, promising CS students) and those CDs *given away* along with a little presentation about how wonderful FreeBSD is and how much better it can make everyone's life if they'll just try out this free CD. That is the whole point. ;-) So, if you qualify on those grounds, please do contact me! I don't mean to snub the "please send me a CD" folks at all, simply to note that sending out single CDs is most definitely _not_ what I meant by promotional donations. Thanks! Jordan P.S. This is not to say that there's no way at all for small research or university departments to get CDs this way, simply that I'd prefer instead to send a single batch to one individual or company and let _them_ redistribute the CDs to the appropriate places (like these).
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