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Idea #19189: LOCOs are unable to hand out professional CDs at release parties.

Written by maxolasersquad the 13 Apr 09 at 15:32. Category: Marketing. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
Release parties are a great time to get CDs out to the public, however most release parties are held too soon for ShipIt to burn the CDs and ship out to the LOCOs.
Tags: CD LOCO ShipIt

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Solution #1: Ship blank Ubuntu CDs to LOCOs a few weeks before product launch.
Written by maxolasersquad the 13 Apr 09 at 15:32.
It would be great if we could request some CDs be shipped out with the top preprinted, but the bottom side left blank, for us to burn on release day.
Even more cool is if the top could be personalized to have our LOCO name, website, and contact information so when we hand the CDs out, people know where they can go for help. This would also differentiate the LOCO burned CDs from those released by ShipIt.
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Solution #2: Budget for faster shipping at release time
Written by cheesehead the 13 Apr 09 at 16:31.
Canonical should have the CDs ready in time for release parties and should budget for express freight to get the CDs to release parties in time. It is a legitimate business expense, and tax-deductible for the company.
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Solution #3: LoCo Leaders
Written by andruk the 13 Apr 09 at 23:56.
Distribute the CDs to the leaders of the LoCos before the release date, and tell the leaders not to distribute them until the release date. That way we don't have release parties before the release date, but we can have release parties on the day of release (presuming the leaders of the LoCos are involved in them).
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Solution #4: Ship the RC release as soon as it is avaliable
Written by zephyrcat the 20 Apr 09 at 03:12.
The release candidate always close to exactly the same as the final version, so it would save LoCos a lot of time if the RC could be sent out on professionally-printed discs.

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crashsystems wrote on the 13 Apr 09 at 18:07
Regarding solution #2, most release parties happen ether on the day of a release, or within a few days. I agree that it would be great if Shipit could get CDs out faster, but even if the CDs were magically created within 10 seconds of a release, the best they could do is get them to their destinations about 48 hours latter (and this would be quite expensive). Faster shipping would be great, but is not a solution to this problem.

maxolasersquad wrote on the 13 Apr 09 at 18:16
I agree crash. It would be very expensive and would not get to their destinations in time for many of the release parties.

Darwin Survivor wrote on the 14 Apr 09 at 02:56
#3 would not work due to the simple fact that the product is not in it's final state until release date, thus the reason for calling it a "release date"!

cheesehead (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 14 Apr 09 at 13:39
Solution #1's ability to tell the difference between ShipIt and user-burned is important. Glad it's in that solution.

leael wrote on the 17 Apr 09 at 00:26
This seems to be related to Idea #19204: Add CD labels.

sanketmedhi wrote on the 18 Apr 09 at 12:34
If we can make the burning cycle faster, I don't see a reason why CDs cannot reach faster. It shouldn't take more than 2-3 weeks for a package to reach anywhere in the world, tells my USPS experience.


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