[FOSS4G-Oceania] [OSGeoLive] Swag and howtos about OSGeoLive USB

Tue Sep 4 10:46:02 PDT 2018

There were quite a few produced for FOSS4G in Dar, are there any leftovers?
I saw a bag full still on the last day, I think...

On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 14:53 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback Nicolas and Astrid.
>
> Extra question from Martin below.
>
> I'm looping in answers from 2 lists as I suspect these answers were not
> seen by all who are interested.
> On 3/9/18 4:55 pm, Martin Tomko wrote:
>
> Any chance the usbs can be usb C compatible?  Many people do no longer
> have usb 2 or 3 ports.
>
>
> On 3/9/18 3:02 pm, Nicolas Roelandt wrote:
>
> Hi all !
>
> Cameron, that's great news !
>
> Astrid, did you encounted defects during the dd process ? If yes, how many
> ?
>
> Yes, final wiki is Trac wiki. so all new information shoud be written
> there.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
> Le dim. 2 sept. 2018 à 08:39, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
> a écrit :
>
>> 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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