¨cds for grabs¨ project

Ni hao!

This is the announcement of ¨cds for grabs¨ project at
http://savannah.gnu.org. 

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/cds4grabs

This is a documentation project in LaTeX. Separate
documents are released for each country. Each country
database will have a list of different states, within
each state there will be a list of cities, and the
cities will contain records on different
areas/counties providing the following details:

- Person's name
- Contact: e-mail or phone number or both
- Set of CDs available and number of CDs in each set

Because the project is implemented in LaTeX, the
end-user can convert .tex to any file format such as
.ps, .html or .pdf.

In the current economic scenario, the communication
system w.r.t. telephone, mobile services, courier
services is very good in a lot of countries. But,
there are also people who still use dial-up. They may
not have the time or resources to download huge ISOs.
But, there may be others who might already have the
GNU/Linux CDs.

There are GLUGs where people exchange CDs through
online websites and mailing lists. But, not every
city/town/village has a GLUG. So, this project aims at
providing the contact info of people who are _willing_
to share/lend/copy/exchange GNU/Linux CDs by utilizing
the backbone communication services (telephones,
mobile services, courier services) of their country.

Thanks to Sylvain Beucler for approving the project at
http://savannah.gnu.org.

https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=4163

This project is an extension of:
http://www.chennailug.org/wiki/CDs_for_Grab

In future, it can be extended to an online database.

I would appreciate your feedback regarding the above. 

Also, if you are interested in becoming a maintainer
for your state/county/city, do get in touch with
me. Please don´t reply to the mailing list.

Sample code implementation for this project can be
downloaded from:

http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/cdsforgrabs-india-0.1.tar.gz

Xiexie,

SK

P.S.: Do spread the word!

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