Re: GNOME 3 DVDs

[Andreas Jaeger <aj novell com>]

On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 13:39:31 Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj novell com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 07, 2011 07:46:29 PM Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 19:32 +0200, Patrick Fey wrote:
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> > > > Bryen,
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > > 
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > I got the following from our US shipment team:
> > 
> > The main statement is (No Commercial Value, Not For Resale). We put the
> > value of all CD's / DVD's at $0.50 each. We also put in a Harmonized Code
> > for all items. Also all items must have a Licensing Code.
> > For the openSUSE 11.4 dvd's we use TSU-5D002.
> 
> Is there an update for the availability of the CD/DVDs?

The DVDs have been shipped from Germany last Thursday to 5 different locations 
- in France, Germany, US, India and China,

Andreas

> Shall we get a page on live.gnome.org to signup for them?
> 
> Simos

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