[Hamara-devel] Opinion on Starting a Free DVD Media Campaign or Stickers campaign

[shirish]

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On 08/11/2015 08:27 PM, Raju DV wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday 11 August 2015 08:04 PM, Vikas Tara wrote:
>> On 11/08/15 15:18, Raju DV wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>     What are your views on starting a free DVD media distribution
>>> campaign for Hamara as was done by Ubuntu once? Or is still being
>>> done by Fedora
>>>  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeMedia?rd=Distribution/FreeMedia
>>>
>>> This can surely help increase in the spread and usage of Hamara.
>> +1
>>>
>>> We can also start a Free stickers distribution program as is still
>>> done by System76 for Ubuntu.
>>> http://blog.arnonerba.com/2013/07/system76-free-ubuntu-stickers.html
>>>
>>> currently the program is closed but it will be relaunched by system76
>>> https://twitter.com/search?q=system76%20stickers&src=typd
>>>
>>> If peoples opinion is that we should not start the free DVD campaign
>>> as it can be easily downloaded, we can surely start the stickers
>>> campaign. We just need to get some cool hamara stickers designed for
>>> laptops and Desktops.
>>>
>>
>> Personally I prefer the free DVD plan as it increases the user base.
> We can start both.
> People who can not download the DVD media because of unavailability of
> good Internet connection will benefit from the free DVD program.
>
> And the people who can still download it and are using it, and want to
> others to take  notice of there systems running Hamara will benefit from
> Free stickers campaign.
>
> Work needs to be done for free DVD campaign
> 1. Having printed DVDs of Hamara with nice art work on it enclosed in a
> DVD cover with good artwork as well.
> 2. Make a landing page on the main website where people can fill a form
> and request for the DVD.
> 3. Figuring out the details on how we will ship the DVDs to users.
> 4. We can also prepare a printed manual for Hamara in English and in
> local languages which we can distribute along with the DVD.
>
>
> For the free stickers campaign
> 1. Design Nice artwork for Laptop stickers, logos, small stickers for
> desktops etc.
> 2. Print them on good Quality sticker sheets.
> 3. Make a landing page on the main website where people can fill a form
> and request for the Stickers
> 4. Figuring out the details on how we will ship the stickers to users.

I think one of the questions is, whom are we trying to target ?

Are we targeting those who have already tried some GNU/Linux distribution.

If that is the game then instead of going via this route why not use 
'Open Source For You' , 'Electronics For You' and such magazines.

They already have a subscriber base and most of them are DIY people. It 
would make more sense to go through via that route than via the website 
route. There is a caveat though with that, if we go via the magazine 
route, then the UI and installation experience would need to be a 
polished one and there are lot of factors which decide that.

For instance, on my recent Lenovo T440 (i5 quad core lappy with 8 GB RAM 
and i4000 gpu) Debian Mint Jessie took hardly 5 minutes and that too was 
probably with me thinking how the partition should be, whereas the same 
installation in a Pentium-4/dual-core machine took around 3+ hours. It 
worked but took lot of pain in getting the archives extracted and all.

For such scenarios, it would be nice if we could have some game like 
breakout, shisen or whatever we can do.

lvm2 seems to have a big bug bugs.debian.org/791869 which is a 
dependency of qemu-kvm but will try to use existing ext4 partitions for 
the same.

Hopefully by tomorrow, should have an instance running.

-- 
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org