[Ambassadors] USB Stick spreading

Clint Savage herlo1 at gmail.com
Tue May 19 18:23:52 UTC 2009


>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Michael Spahn <any0n3 at fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Ambassadors,
>>> a way to spreading fedora to users with slow connection.
>>> My idea is the user search a local Ambassador and send him a usb stick and
>>> attach the postage to send the stick back.
>>> And the Ambassador can easy create the USB stick with the liveusb-creator
>>> :).
>>> And a little paper with the architecture  and the gui gnome/kde.
>>> This way is very cheap for the fedoraproject and a simple way for the
>>> user.
>>> Only a little idea :).
>>> With regards,
>>> any0n3
>>>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Keiran Smith <affix at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Hey Michael,
>> I really like your idea :). However this can be very costly to us Unless we
>> can get a sponsorship from a manufacturer.
>>
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Adam Miller <maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> The user is to buy a USB stick, mail it to an ambassador. The
> ambassador then puts fedora on the USB stick and mails it back. (As
> Michael originally said)
>
> Why do we need a manufacturer?
>
> -Adam

I could go for this idea.  It's a cheap way for someone to get Fedora.
 For about $2 we could get a Fedora USB stick to a person without
internet access.  It'd be nice to put the updates on there too as a
repository or something.

Cheers,

Clint




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