Need to do something about Freemedia India.

[subhodip biswas]

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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