Re: tlug: Re: Roasting TLUG CD-ROMS

[Craig Oda <craig@example.com>]

Hi,

At 170 yen a piece, 100 pieces would be 17,000 yen.  We have about
24,000 yen in funds, so this is a feasible project for TLUG.
We need to allocate some money to buy refreshments for the next
meeting and maybe a free lunch for the speaker if we get a 
major speaker.  However, even with those expenses, we can
still do the TLUG CD-ROM project.  If we allocate about 20
CD-ROMs for marketing, I can ask Computing Japan if they
can run a contest for free Linux CD distributions.  If they
agree, TLUG can get some free advertisement (probably
about a 5 cm long column)  and help spread Linux around Japan.    

Assuming that each CD takes 17 minutes to roast, 1,700 minutes
will be required.  Assuming that we allocate 15 seconds per
CD to change and set up the physical media, that adds another
25 minutes. 1725 minutes is 29 hours.  Assuming that there is
a 10 minute allocation each hour for breaks and general
logistic coordination of a volunteer project, we're looking at
another 5 hours.  So, that's about 34 hours for 100 CDs.
If the project were distributed among five roasters it would
take 6.8 hours per roaster.

Alternately, if we looked at it by required volunteer time,
if each person volunteered 2 hours, we would require 17
volunteers.  

Thus, it would appear that the coordination of volunteer
work is the bottleneck and not the financing required.

By this calculation, 10 CDs per meeting would require
3.4 hours of volunteer time for the meeting. 

Just some initial thoughts.  


Regards,
Craig


On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, joem wrote:

> > Since Joe Marchak volunteered to demonstrate Xcd-Roast at the
> > next meeting, I was wondering how much it would cost to create
> > and distribute TLUG CD-ROMS?
> > Initial ideas would be to copy Red Hat 5.0, JRPM, PJE, Debian 1.3.1,
> > Debian JP, Debian Hamm, and Debian-JP Hamm.   
> 
> This is a good idea.  To create a disk we only need about 1.5Gb of hard
> disk space for the source and image, and a blank CDR.  I've been getting
> the CDR's bulk for about 185 yen each.  If we buy 100 we can get them for
> about 170 yen a piece.  We could make up 10 or 20 disks of the latest
> software and TLUG homepage&archives before each meeting and distribute
> them as "disks of the month". 
> 
> XCDRoast is fast.  With a 4x writer it takes 17 minutes for a full
> write.  

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