[SFD-discuss] CDs to be dispatched to SFD teams

[Bruce Kingsbury]

> I'd have some misgivings about giving away home-made distro CDs to 
> newbies. The last thing you want is to have someone's first experience 
> of a free OS being a borked install process caused by dodgy media. It's 
> not so essential for something like the OpenCD to be bit-perfect.

home-made CD's are just fine, as long as you don't use the cheapest
possible blanks and burn them at 52x! Get a decent brand disk and burn
them at about 12x (less if you can stand it) because some (usually
older) drives can't boot or read them reliably otherwise.

> Books
> 
>      * Three Novels by Cory Doctorow
>      * Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software 
> by Sam Williams
>      * We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People 
> by Dan Gillmor
>      * Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock 
> Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
>      * Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
>      * Free Software Magazine - Issues 0-6
> 
> Audio
> 
>      * Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock 
> Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig (and friends)
>      * LugRadio - 2 episodes
I'm not sure this is a first impression we want to make :)

>      * The Dangers of Software Patents by Richard Stallman
>      * Copyright vs Community in the age of computer Networks by Richard 
> Stallman
> 
> Video
>  From the Creative Commons Project
> 
>      * Creative Commons - Get Creative
>      * Creative Commons - Remix Culture
>      * Building on the Past
>      * CC Brazil
> 
>  From archive.org
> 
>      * Richard Stallman - Rome - Interview (4-1-2003)
> 
> 
Some great ideas here; I think we need some software promo videos like
the one for Tremulous too..
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tremulous/tremulous-promo-II.avi?download

Anybody know if there are more like this?