I thought that Steve had reported a health number of downloads of the ISO.
But, yes, we need to remind people and look at getting some CDs done - at
least for the SMM and ADASS.
..David
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From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Malcolm J. Currie
Sent: 02 September 2004 16:17
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Subject: Re: STARJAVA on dev.starlink.ac.uk
> > ??? I thought that was the spring 2004 release? The CD came out a couple
> > of months ago.
>
> It did? Then why does nobody seem to have it installed? I don't actually
> rememeber a CD going out. Did we release ISO only?
It is somewhat confusing as the links on our home and Store pages talk
about the CD-ROM, but when you reach
http://www.starlink.ac.uk/Download/, it's only the ISO.
Not sure what Steve has done here, but the lack of a physical delivery
to former Starlink sites would mean that some site managers and even
their pestering users are unaware of what's happening. The new
arrangements are presented in the Bulletin, which should be mailed in
the latter part of next week. The previous Bulletin wasn't as widely
distributed as Dave and I thought because they had to request it rather
than we just send an appropriate number. We should consider sending out
CDs to them, or if that's deemed too demanding, a(nother) bold
announcement in the site manager's e-mail list or directly. I
personally think that given the software-development work involved, not
to spend a little effort pushing the CDs under UK site managers' noses
is pennypinching, and many undermine user perceptions at during a
critical review. Yes I appreciate the divergence of operating systems,
but something has to be done proactively to get our latest software in
wide usage. We're still saving lots of effort and money on the
worldwide distribution.
No doubt we'll be asked for CDs at ADASS. Are we going to burn
some CDs? If not we'll need a poster for ADASS with a big fount,
listing the URLs from where the software is obtainable.
Malcolm
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