[sword-devel] Re: [bt-devel] Burning CD images

[geoffrey W Hastings]

I have a friend at work that has a T1 connection and a CD burner. Is
there a site with the whole CD set up to download in a full burnable
package.  I would like to make some copies for our Bible college teachers
and students to try (about 20 students is all we have)  as well as my
Junior high Sunday school class. Or would it be better to order 1 CD and
just duplicate it. I am guessing that it would save time off your
schedule for people to burn their own copies for their circles of
influence than ordering 10, 20, etc... 
Otherwise if I am wrong and you would prefer to have orders I will be
happy to just order 10 or 20 at a time. 
I have  in the past ordered about 250 Online Bibles for friends coworkers
etc... over a period of a few years. And figure it will end up being the
same for the SWORD. 
Every one I know of would be running on Windows.
I don't know if there is any major changes being scheduled that would
make it better to wait or if I should just get it now.

Geoff Hastings

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 12:14:52 -0700 "Troy A. Griffitts"
<scribe@crosswire.org> writes:
> > As Troy has agreed in the issue of burning decentralized CD's I'd
> > suggest we collect a list of volunteers from the various countries 
> that
> > are willing and have the ressources to burn the CD's. We would 
> then post
> > this list to our and crosswire's site so people can inform 
> themselves
> > whom to contact. Daniel and Joachim already voluntered. I would 
> jump in
> > if the demand rises too high for Germany.
> > I don't know how to do it with bank account info (where to send 
> the
> > money to). What do you think: should this be posted to the site (I
> > dislike this :) or only send to ppl that request a CD from you by 
> mail?
> > 
> > What price do you suggest?
> > 
> > Hope to hear from many of you :)
> 
> I would suggest posting a 'minumum' amount covering your expenses a
> little extra for your equipment usage-- probably $5.00 in the US, 
> and
> explain that anything over and beyond will contribute toward 
> resources
> for those that can't afford.  Just my suggestion, though.  From my
> experience, you will get about 60% giving the bare minimun, 35% 
> offering
> just a little above, and then some sending as much as $20.00 
> dollars.
> 
> I have a P.O. Box set up for the CD's.  This is very inexpensive in 
> the
> States (around $40/yr).
> 
> I have $'s to stamp CD's in quantities.  Count 1000, works out to 
> about
> 73c / CD, +8c for labeling, +8c for art and inset, +12c for case.
> 
> $1.01 / CD.  This is really cool.  I will be willing to do this once 
> we
> get a CD that we feel is good enough for the time it will take to
> distribute 1000 CDs.  I had planned to do this a few months back but 
> the
> linux setup took longer than I expected.  I feel we are close now,
> though.
> 
> Also, I would like to look into the price for cardboard sleaves for 
> the
> CD instead of plastic cases.  The cost of printing these should be
> considerably cheaper than .12 + .8 / CD, plus we may be able to just
> slap a label on them and mail them bypassing the $1.00  packaging 
> costs
> and much less postage / CD.
> 
> Thoughts?

Geoff  Hastings
geoffreyhastings@juno.com

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