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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Garage Sale (was: Re: Case Modes?)
From: Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 22:47:43 -0500
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amccadden wrote:
> It would great if you would provide labels.  I have been providing the
> CD's and James G. has donated lots of jewel cases.  When could you get
> the labels to me?

Next weekend if I deliver them, or I can mail them by Monday, How many 
would you need? and just for RH7.3 ?, or what other distros?

> 
> FYI Jeff- Greg disbanded our Natcom Seti group.  I wish that he would
> have let me take over being the leader, but he didn't.  If I switch to
> your group, will I lost all of my sessions from the Natcom group or
> start a new tally of sessions?  My time is now down to 7 hrs 10 minutes
> per session.  Just wanted to find out.  ~Anne
> 
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>Maybe $3.50 per disk, with $10 for the whole set of 3.
>>If it gets more than 3 disks then possibly $12 for the set of 4.
>>
>>The distribution at Comp-USA is 59.95 (I think) so it will be much less
>>than the distro. I could print some labels ahead of time for the CDs so
>>they would look a little more professional.
>>
>>Time involved is getting to be very little as well,  5 - 10 minutes per
>>CD including burning and applying label. Maybe less with the 32X CDRs
>>now available. (it takes me about 5 min to burn 640mb at 16X)
>>
>>Dale W Hodge wrote:
>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
>>>>Behalf Of amccadden
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>An addemdum to the memo about the Saturday Sale.  Red Hat 7.3 now comes
>>>>on 3 CD's.  Various people have made the comment that $5 for each CD,
>>>>that is $15 for Red Hat 7.3 is too much.  Sounds cheap for an OS that
>>>>doesn't crash very often.  How about $10 for the set?  Any other
>>>>comments?  ~Anne
>>>
>>>
>>>It looks like none of the dists are likely to be less than two disks from
>>>here on.  When Debian 3.0 releases, it will be on 6 CD's with 2 required for
>>>a 'basic' install.
>>>
>>>So the question becomes what do we charge for something other than a 3 disk
>>>set? Price them at $3.50 a disk and round to the next dollar?  Like
>>>$3.50->$4, $7, $10.50->$11, $14, $17.50->$18, $21, etc?  Or $4, $7, $10,
>>>$14, $18, $20?  This is something we need to think about. The sets don't
>>>cost us much in materials, but the time involved in preparing them has to be
>>>worth something.
>>>
>>>--dwh
>>>
>>>---
>>>Dale W Hodge - dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Vice Chairman & Secretary - info@xxxxxxxxx
>>>Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
>>>---
>>>
>>>
>>>
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