[foss4g2014] js.geo, OSGeo LIVE, AGM, ten years, code sprint, booth materials

[TC Haddad]

....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...

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...)

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.

Tanya


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org>
wrote:

> > 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> Darrell
>
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