[osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

[Sara Dornsife]

Yeah, thanks Bonnie. Stephen just mentioned that to me too. It's a 
bummer, but it is better than nothing. We don't have anything from 
Dennis. From my understanding, he stopped working on it and won't 
deliver if we don't pay him for it.
Sara


Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> Hi Sara,
>
> just remember that we have to be a little careful with CDs built from
> Solaris Express.  Sun can hand those out with hardcopy licenses because
> it's our distribution.  But we can't let other people create them and
> hand them out because it only comes with a right-to-use (RTU) license.
> No distribution rights.
>
> Bonnie
>
>
>
> Sara Dornsife wrote On 04/26/06 13:36,:
>   
>> I like the idea a lot. We don't have the "Band of Brothers" ISO yet
>> though. We do have what Stephen Lau has been handing out which is based
>> on the Solaris Express Community Edition. Would that work?
>>
>> Any ideas on how many we might go through in a given month? We can make
>> the ISO and DVD artwork available on line so that they can be produced
>> anywhere by anyone who would like to.
>>
>> Is this proposal in addition to the other suggestions, or in place of?
>> Laura had suggested a worldwide user group effort. Are you thinking that
>> that isn't a good idea? Any of the others?
>> Sara
>>
>>
>> Erast Benson wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 02:19 -0300, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I think we should do what we do best, give away software, I know what
>>>> I'm about to say is a bit impossible because of the time constraints,
>>>> cost and others. Do we still have that band of brothers DVD? I was
>>>> thinking about giving it away, shipping it even, everywhere, for free,
>>>> yes, ubuntu like to everyone that visits the www.opensolaris.org web
>>>> site. We could even include in the DVD the "happy birthday song" and
>>>> change the cover of the DVD to something more suitable for the ocation   :)
>>>>
>>>> ohh, and we need a birthday banner for the site :P
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> +7 :-)
>>>
>>> That is the best idea to promote OpenSolaris so far I heard on this
>>> forum. It works really really well for promoting Ubuntu and I don't see
>>> why it will not work for us.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>       
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