Re: GNOME 3 DVDs

[Bryen M Yunashko <a11yrocks bryen com>]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 19:32 +0200, Patrick Fey wrote:
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> Bryen,
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> Am 07.04.2011 19:22, schrieb Bryen M Yunashko:
> > As I recall, the Ship-it Program sent individual CDs to requesters.
> > That's not the same issue as what Diego is raising, where shipments in
> > bulk get flagged by customs because they're seen as shipping commercial
> > goods for resale.
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> Canonical also sent out large batches of CDs on request. While I was at
> Hamburg university, Canonical would send us large shipments of 64bit CDs
> of their new release every October to hand out at our o-week. I have no
> idea how Canonical got these through customs, though.
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> Cheers!
>
> :-) Patrick
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Okay so I stand corrected on the assumption of how the Ship-it Program
worked.  :-)   But as openSUSE is donating the DVDs and has experience
in shipping worldwide, I think it would be useful to first ask the donor
how they did/do it and to work out some logistics like Jos suggested in
this thread by splitting up locations where to ship to and reduce
customs overhead there.

Bryen