[Live-demo] Do we want OSGeo-Live on a USB or DVD at FOSS4G?

[Cameron Shorter]

Peter,
Could you please organise to us with an indication of what distribution 
formats will be available to us at FOSS4G.
 From feedback we have been getting, I'm guessing that if there is 
sufficient budget, it would be good to have a mix of USB and DVDs. We 
might only provide USBs to VIPs (as per foss4g 2010. From memory, around 
150 8Meg USBs were printed).

On 09/08/11 19:45, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> I would prefer a USB drive:
> 1) my netbook does not have a dvd device
> 2) it is *much* faster. I could get something done on a usb device.
>  From a dvd, that is much harder. Usuability and speed go hand in hand.
> If I want to test an application and it takes too long to boot, I'm
> already busy doing something different.
> 3) Unfortunately no experience building a usb version of the live dvd
> (I use a virtual machine).
>
> Johan
>
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> OSGeo-Live will be handed out to all delegates at FOSS4G 2011 in Denver, and
>> what I'd like to know is whether we should distribute on a DVD or USB.
>>
>> In Barcelona, we were unsure whether the USB version would work on most
>> computers, so we gave USB's to presenters only, who we thought would likely
>> be forgiving if it didn't work) and we gave DVDs to everyone else.
>>
>> So my question to the community is:
>> If you were given an OSGeo-Live DVD at FOSS4G 2010, were you able to boot
>> from it on your computer (and whatever other computers you may have at
>> home)?
>>
>> If you have experience building a bootable USB, I'd also like to hear from
>> you.
>> Probably best to reply to myself and/or live-demo at lists.osgeo.org and avoid
>> swamping the discuss list with traffic.
>>
>> On 03/08/11 06:26, Peter Batty wrote:
>>> Do you have a preference between DVD and USB? My laptop doesn't do DVDs so
>>> I guess I have an inclination for at least having some USBs in the mix.
>>> Don't know how costs compare though, will research further.
>>
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