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Re OSGeo Live USB/DVDs.<br>
* 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).<br>
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* 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.<br>
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* A 4 Gig USB is sufficient (just) to fit all of OSGeo-Live linux
applications.<br>
* An 8 Gig includes windows installers as well, and has extra room
to store extra files created in workshops.<br>
* As such an 8 Gig USB would be better if there is budget for it.<br>
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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.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/07/2014 12:23 am, David William
Bitner wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Sounds like you're a great candidate to opt-in and
pick one up from the basket then :-)</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Jeff
McKenna <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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> I disagree here. I think having OSGeo Live USB's/DVDs
available (read:<br>
> opt-in) is great, but I think it is incredibly
wasteful (money as well as<br>
> a<br>
> product that is not environmentally benign) to put
one in every delegate<br>
> packet. I have tons of these USB sticks that just
clutter up my drawers<br>
> and<br>
> are ones I never tend to use because they are almost
always low capacity<br>
> and incredibly slow drives.<br>
><br>
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Ah yes but how many FOSS4G ones do you have? That is my
point. To me,<br>
with the FOSS4G t-shirts, they are the things that are
useful and cool for<br>
years to come. I just got a FOSS4G-Europe OSGeo-Live USB
key, has the<br>
cool conference logo on it, and it is priceless to me.<br>
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I guess we can agree to disagree :)<br>
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-jeff<br>
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