[vox-outreach] ~160 TheOpenCDs wasted

[Alex Mandel]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> I discovered nearly 160 TheOpenCDs (also acted as Ubuntu live CDs)
> that we received from Canonocial for Software Freedom Day in 2005.
> 
> It was very depressing to have to dispose of them... they're so old that
> they're not worth distributing, at this point.  We need to be really
> vigilant when it comes to not wasting stuff... esp. high-quality production
> stuff that was generously donated to us!!!
> 
> The only mention of SFD that I see in the meeting minutes from back then
> is mention that it's _going_ to happen, at one of the August meetings.
> (No report of how it went in the Sept. minutes.)  So I'm not sure how many
> discs we received -- but I doubt it would've been more than 200 or 250.
> 
> In the future, we really need to keep better track of stuff like that,
> and be sure to bring them to meetings and other events, so that people
> have a chance to grab them before they become 4 years obsolite. :( :(
> 
> -bill!

FYI you can recycle those in town, definitely on campus there are bins,
but also maybe at DWR on 2nd street.

Alex