[foss4g2014] js.geo, OSGeo LIVE, AGM, ten years, code sprint, booth materials

[Cameron Shorter]

Re OSGeo Live USB/DVDs.
* OSGeo-Live DVDs are very slow, but otherwise do work well. They are 
good for someone to see OSGeo software for the first time, or for a 
delegate going back to their workplace to showoff what they learned at 
the conference (as the osgeo-live presentation is included too).

* A USB, or Virtual Machine is both useful and fast enough. Both have 
been used in workshops and we have received good reports from the 
instructors.

* A 4 Gig USB is sufficient (just) to fit all of OSGeo-Live linux 
applications.
* An 8 Gig includes windows installers as well, and has extra room to 
store extra files created in workshops.
* As such an 8 Gig USB would be better if there is budget for it.

As David suggests, not everyone will want a USB, although I expect from 
a FOSS4G conference there will be a high proportion of the attendees 
wanting one. (At a wild guess, I'd say over 50%). Giving USBs away from 
an OSGeo booth would be a good way to distribute, and also a way to 
attract people to the booth. So I do like that idea.

On 30/07/2014 12:23 am, David William Bitner wrote:
> Sounds like you're a great candidate to opt-in and pick one up from 
> the basket then :-)
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Jeff McKenna 
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>
>     >>
>     >>
>     > I disagree here. I think having OSGeo Live USB's/DVDs available
>     (read:
>     > opt-in) is great, but I think it is incredibly wasteful (money
>     as well as
>     > a
>     > product that is not environmentally benign) to put one in every
>     delegate
>     > packet. I have tons of these USB sticks that just clutter up my
>     drawers
>     > and
>     > are ones I never tend to use because they are almost always low
>     capacity
>     > and incredibly slow drives.
>     >
>
>     Ah yes but how many FOSS4G ones do you have?  That is my point.
>      To me,
>     with the FOSS4G t-shirts, they are the things that are useful and
>     cool for
>     years to come.  I just got a FOSS4G-Europe OSGeo-Live USB key, has the
>     cool conference logo on it, and it is priceless to me.
>
>     I guess we can agree to disagree :)
>
>     -jeff
>
>
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