Providing Fedora for little bandwidth expense of users

I am sharing my views here with not much prior check on current trends with Fedora cult, so I can be wrong for my thoughts in this post, feel free to comment.

Though Fedora Free Media program is very much in action with its volunteers and sponsors actively helping getting Fedora to masses, Fedora is yet an expensive to use OS for daily basis. In my view need to take a look on Fedora usage cost for end customer.

Free media gets a user free copy of Fedora to install from, but following are some cons in my opinion that can be cut down further:

•  Request and shipping time of Free Media

•  Initial updates of newly installed Fedora system, costs bandwidth what an ordinary user might not like to expense on and should also be a reason to save bandwidth

•  Subsequent updates, costs bandwidth in similar way as of Initial updates

•  more ....?

I think few enhancements are possible to infrastructure and Fedora that can cover above listed cons of use-cases, and quiet much of it is in progress but the overall effort might be required to populate as an agenda rather than feature code names here and there. So here are few things in progress and what more can be done:

•  Delta RPMS (Presto) support in Fedora Infrastructure, in 82% completion as per its status page on wiki

•  Marketing & advocacy agenda for Institutional Private mirrors of Fedora, perhaps with some sort of association of a save-bandwidth organization/group (this should have lot of other concerns and care to have in mind and should be another small blog post I feel, where I also want to suggest how this can also get better cost vs profit results for ISPs with lot of Fedora users in their network)

•  Enhancements within Feodra (installer & config-tools) to allow users to choose to configure "Persistent updates, Local mirror, LiveUSB/CD image creator/re-spins station etc." during installation or post-install. 

•  Enhancements to populate local private repos, mirrors etc to other systems on local network

Bottom line of my suggestions is that vision on all collective problems should have one umbrella agenda, various teams will have to put in their work. More peer feedback and suggestions are required, maybe I have put in some not required thinking in this post :-)