<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div>....aaand not to be difficult, but I'll take the opposite view and relate that in the past when I've burned stacks of OSGeo Live DVDs for outreach at other events / large workshops, I have always been stuck with leftovers, all of which have been 100% useless to me within a few months. So though cheaper up front, these are the really useless product in the long term (mobiles and coasters notwithstanding). Plus, many new laptops don't even have DVD drives so...<br>
<br></div>On the flip side, as a person who works in a miserly govt. agency and obviously doesn't get out as much as Darrell and David :), I think getting a USB drive at a conference is probably among the top 2 shwag items in terms of how much I actually continue to use it after the fact. Bottom of the list of shwag items? the usually unbelievably terrible conference bag, (if there is a way to avoid that...)<br>
<br></div><div>I agree USBs are expensive. Maybe there is compromise: 8GB USB 3.0 for workshop attendees (included in their fee) and in an opt-in 4GB USB 2.0 basket at the OSGeo booth for others. All this would only work if we have the budget for it.<br>
<br></div>Tanya <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darrell@garnix.org" target="_blank">darrell@garnix.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>> 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.<br>
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</div>For the record, I agree with David here, hence my comment on low return on investment. I also have a pile of unused USB keys. The first time I got one at a conference (whopping 16MB, IIRC) I thought it was awesome. By the tenth, I was over it – they were inevitably smaller and slower than the one I carry with me all the time (32GB USB 3.0).<br>
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FWIW, a quick perusal suggests 8GB USB sticks with full color logo are about $7.50 each. DVDs in basic paper sleeve with 4-color printing on the disc are about $1.70 ($2.00 for dual layer) each – both in quantities of around 300, slightly less as you get larger.<br>
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