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

[Sara Dornsife]

Who do I ask? I'm totally willing to go to bat for it. Even if it only 
applies to the community edition.  Right?

And, I may as well ask now: What about the compilers? Also restrictive?
Sara


Stephen Lau wrote:
> Is there anyway to get the redistribution clause relaxed?  It seems 
> counterintuitive to me that we're attempting to build a community here 
> and encouraging people to evangelise OpenSolaris -- and then 
> restricting people from burning and distributing Solaris Express 
> CDs/DVDs.
>
> cheers,
> steve
>
> Sara Dornsife wrote:
>> 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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