[FOSS4G-Oceania] Swag and howtos about OSGeoLive USB
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 14:50:29 PDT 2018
OSGeoLive folks,
An OSGeoLive USB is high on the swag wish list for the upcoming
FOSS4G-Oceania conference. We have a question below about whether we can
fit extra data on the USB (I suspect a 8 Gig or 32 Gig USB). I know it
has been done in the past, but am also aware that creating bootable USBs
quite an art.
Astrid, I think you have recently created USBs? Do you have any advice
to pass on (ideally collected in a wiki so we can share with others).
Ben, Brian, Alex, Angelos, you have also provided good advice on this in
the past and might be able to chip in.
Cheers, Cameron
On 1/09/2018 10:27 AM, John Bryant wrote:
> Re: USB stick, thanks Greg. There's an action item from a couple of
> meetings ago for you to follow up on that idea, with some idea of cost
> & effort involved, can you chase these details up and let us know what
> you find out?
>
> If we can get an agency to pay for it, sounds great to me. We might
> need to discuss though, there has been some resistance in this group
> against sponsorship of specific initiatives, because of potential
> unfairness to sponsors we already have on board, who haven't had the
> opportunity to do so. But I don't think this is irreconcilable - just
> need to have a proposal on the table I think, for proper context for
> that discussion.
>
> Question - can you technically put both the OSGeoLive and additional
> content on one USB?
>
> Thanks
> John
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 00:28, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> +1 for USB stick with OSGeoLive + data. (Disclaimer, I have a soft
> spot for OSGeoLive as I'm one of the people behind the project).
>
>
> On 29/08/2018 12:04 AM, Greg Lauer wrote:
>> We talked briefly at last meeting about USB stick? My thoughst we
>> could put OSGeo-Live VM on there plus a open data form each
>> state. A few years ago I got a USB stick from someone in Victoria
>> who had bundled all the VIC open data into a SQLite database
>> (geopackge now) and created a QGIS project. Maybe replicate that
>> for each state?
>>
>> There is some cost (and time) involved but think we could get an
>> agency to sponsor?
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 2:19 PM Martin Tomko
>> <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au <mailto:tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>> wrote:
>>
>> +1, great ideas.
>>
>> The #pyconau thread had some interesting stuff going on now,
>> incl someone who redesigned their swag.
>>
>> M.
>>
>> *From: *FOSS4G-Oceania
>> <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mailto:foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of
>> Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu
>> <mailto:sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>>
>> *Date: *Monday, 27 August 2018 at 2:14 pm
>> *To: *Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com <mailto:dwsilk at gmail.com>>
>> *Cc: *"foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mailto:foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>"
>> <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
>> <mailto:foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>>
>> *Subject: *Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Swag
>>
>> Colouring book, could be great fun!! :) (esp if Oceania or
>> Melbourne specific)
>>
>> I love these wearable map from splashmap
>> <http://www.splash-maps.com>. and could be really fun swag
>> for a geo conference - we'd have to still design it
>> obviously... but probably this is not possible as too pricey
>> (although we could explore costs for batch cost). But not
>> sure would anyone actually use it ... actually if it was
>> Melbourne specific I think they would, people could draw on
>> it...and we can mark the relevant buildings - we might need
>> to provide a wash-off-able (logo'd perhaps) pen too! We could
>> continue this with fun social media posts of people using
>> their maps around the city!
>>
>> A tea towel is at least useful! and could be very cool if we
>> have a really great design.... Could we run a tea-towel
>> design competition? i.e. Using open data and open software
>> design a map for our "FOSS4G-Oceania" merchandise (merc as
>> this could go even beyond tea towels to posters or flyers if
>> we wanted). I think this could be fun and could create some
>> buzz in the community before the conference ... I imagine we
>> could get some great entries even from outside the immediate
>> community. And then it goes to public vote, or we (I) can
>> probably get some people together as a panel of data vis
>> /cartography / design experts to critic and shortlist them
>> first? we could hae even different designs and people get
>> them at random - we might see some swaps...
>>
>> Bookmarks could be nice, although I rarely use them myself.
>> Whilst I like the idea of giving books to go with them but it
>> seems expensive and difficult to give people books relevant
>> to them and I think we will end up with lots being left
>> behind partly as they weigh luggage down! It still might be
>> nice to have some relevant books available to win if we have
>> money available - maybe a collection of different ones and
>> the draw happens in the few days before the conference...
>> Everyone with a ticket gets the chance to win and then they
>> choose a book relevant to them when they get there (first
>> come first serve on choice). (If people don't want a book
>> then we get to re-draw for prize winners).
>>
>> On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 16:55, Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com
>> <mailto:dwsilk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 2:23 PM Alex Leith
>> <alexgleith at gmail.com <mailto:alexgleith at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I’m still super keen on tea towels! Maybe I’m a bit of
>> an old man, but I could always use of tea towels and
>> having one that reminds me of our conference would be great!
>>
>> If someone can design a nice tea towel using
>> OpenStreetMap data and the conference logo, I think it
>> would make a good speaker gift.
>>
>> It's a bit jarring to me as an item that we put the
>> Platinum sponsors logos on though.
>>
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