[Opencd-devel] distribution CD

[Eric P. <ep...@ya...>]

I'm a little hesitant about talking about this so early in the process.
 I'm looking into making the CDs and distributing them to people who
want it but don't want to download them.  

So far I thought that I would charge 5 bucks for them with free
shipping in US and Canada and maybe Mexico.  Bulk purchases could be
cheaper.  I could ship to places outside the US and Canada while
charging for shipping just enough to make sure there is a profit on
each CD.  Sales tax would be charged for Washington, California, and
Nebraska.  Credit card processing would have the sales tax stuff but if
I setup a PayPal account we could get by without the sales tax.  I have
a company in mind that will help me accept Credit card payments without
a monthly fee, they just charge 10% of the total sales without shipping
or tax.  I am leery about using PayPal.  I was thinking that all profit
could go to the developers or the FSF.

I'm open to suggestions and willing to all the cd Burning myself.

Eric


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> Hello,
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> OK. So now we have an abundance of volunteers and resources. We're
> going to have to get organised. As I see it, we need to split into a
> few groups. These groups will need to work together, but
> seperately... if you see what I mean.
> 
> 
>   ** Designers **
> 
>   About 2 people who have some experience and talent with graphic
>   design need to sit down and design us logos, a colour scheme and
>   an overall "look and feel". 
> 
>   These designs should be used on the CD itself (in the autorun
>   menu, for instance) and on our end-user website, TheOpenCD.com.
> 
> 
>   ** Webmasters **
> 
>   While Henrik and I can probably manage running TheOpenCD.org (which
>   is planned to be the development headquarters), we'll need a team
>   of people to run TheOpenCD.com. You will probably want some
> experience
>   with SQL, PHP or Perl.
> 
>   The website will probably need to provide a seamless transition to
>   OpenSourceWare.net, which is to become an area for tutorials and
>   links to open source projects.
> 
> 
>   ** Developers **
> 
>   Last but not least, we'll need a few people to put together the
> actual
>   CD. These people will need a certain amount of experience in
> graphical
>   Win32 programming. If people interested in joining this team could
> email
>   me, I could get an idea of what development tools you were all most
>   comfortable using and pick a language for the project - C, C++, VB,
> etc.
> 
> 
> So, as I was saying before. We now have an abundance of resources. In
> particular, we have 2 fully-featured bulletin boards (theopencd.org
> and opensourceware.net) and the sourceforge mailing list (which has
> its archives on the web!)
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> This, I think, is too much. It is far too decentralised. I would
> suggest that everyone joins the mailing list, because email is
> probably the most convenient of these. That way we can start putting
> the websites to good use.
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