Need to do something about Freemedia India.
subhodip biswas
subhodip at fedoraproject.org
Sun Mar 16 05:37:51 UTC 2008
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, susmit shannigrahi
<thinklinux.ssh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is about current condition of Freemedia _India_.
> Saying in a line... It is badly messed up.
>
> Counting from Dec 2007 to March 2008 we have *17* fulfilled request
> and ~380 pending requests.
> That indicates only one thing, its going to shut down in near future.
>
> So lets do something about it.
>
> My suggestions are
>
> 1. Let's gather from contributors how many DVDs are available for the
> month and accept that many requests only.
+1 for that . Loads of pending request discourage users
> For that we can give contributors a week's time to declare and then
> open the request form.
> For a month if there is no contributor, there will be no requests.
> However, thats not going to increase the quantity of media.
> But this will ensure all requests are fulfilled.
>
> 2. Lets make posting of Blank Media compulsory for requesting Freemedia.
> Thats going to cost INR 20-25 at max.
> Well, that will create a negative impression no doubt, but the current
> situation is not bright either.
A suggestion may be is to have regional requests as as to break up
requests into modules .this actually lowers the load on free media
team .
Existing fedora ambassadors may help in this .
> For those who genuinely want to use Fedora but don't have that much
> bandwidth, it may be helpful.
>
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
>
>
>
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> Susmit.
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