[FOSS4G-Oceania] Swag and howtos about OSGeoLive USB

Sat Sep 1 23:39:21 PDT 2018

Hello all,

Am 01.09.2018 23:50 schrieb Cameron Shorter:
> 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.

I ordered 16GB sticks with USB 3.0 at flashbay. There are quite good.
https://www.flashbay.de/usb-sticks
I have experience with twitter and kinetic - they are both fine.

The production with dd was ok but we spend a long time on it.
So maybe in your case it would make sense to ask the usb-provider to add 
the data directly on the stick.

How many sticks do you want to produce?

Please tell the workshop presenter to link their workshop material here:
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install

> 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).

There is this Wiki page already:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Quickstart_USB

Shall we move it to trac-wiki?

Maybe you should use the final 12.0 iso and add you data.

> Ben, Brian, Alex, Angelos, you have also provided good advice on this
> in the past and might be able to chip in.

Astrid

> 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> 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>
>> 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> on
>> behalf of Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>
>> DATE: Monday, 27 August 2018 at 2:14 pm
>> TO: Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com>
>> CC: "foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org"
>> <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 [1]. 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> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 2:23 PM Alex Leith <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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