Linux World Canada Show, April 24-26, 2006

[John Macdonald]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 09:41:14PM -0500, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
> >Ok, so the one item that seemed to strike a nerve on
> >this list was giving away CDs at the Linux World
> >Canada Show. With that in mind I will draft a
> >"request" e-mail to send to various commercial
> >distributions this weekend, with the following
> >questions to be answered next:
> >
> >- How many CDs should I be asking for, of what type,
> >from each firm? Keeping in mind that they may not send
> >all the CDs I ask for, and that it is a game (for me
> >at least and some (many?) others) to collect as much
> >stuff ("swag") as possible at a show (so we want more
> >that what seems reasonable :-) ).
> >
> >- Which firms should I be approaching, and can anyone
> >offer contact names/addresses? My first take on firms
> >would be:
> >
> >- Canonical Ltd. - Ubuntu Badger (or higher)
> 
> Dapper is set for release April 20th. We're stuck in a Catch-22 situation 
> where it looks kinda amateurish to be distributing copies of Badger and we 
> won't have any copies of Dapper on hand.

Perhaps.  We could add info about the release to the list of net
downloads available.  It could be easier for some people to use
the (just out of date) copy of Badge to install on a system, and
then upgrade to Drake online without having to download a CD.

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