[Marketing] FOSS4G-Europe 2017: OSGeoLive on USB stick

[Jody Garnett]

Quick question Gerald - is there an OSGeo booth at the foss4g europe event
to hand out USB sticks from? Or a osgeo-europe booth, or a local chapter
booth, or ...

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Jody Garnett

On 1 June 2017 at 11:41, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah that is like 1/2 our marketing budget for the year; and we are going
> to have a lot of expenses ordering new booth stuff.
>
> Is there a chance the conference registration fee can cover USB stick
> purchase?
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 1 June 2017 at 04:37, Fenoy Gerald <gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr> wrote:
>
>> Dear Jody,
>> thanks a lot for your answer.
>>
>> I have contacted a french company that provide usb stick printing. Their
>> proposal is like this: for 300 USB sticks it will cost almost 2000 € when
>> for 400 the cost will go to 2600€.
>>
>> Nevertheless, I am now wondering. Indeed, from what I can remember,
>> during the FOSS4G in Bonn there was an OSGeo Booth that was providing the
>> OSGeoLiveDVD USB sticks. This may be the best option. Indeed, in case OSGeo
>> is coming to the FOSS4G-Europe with OSGeoLive USB sticks, it means that we
>> may be able to manage the usb print on our own budget as it may cost less
>> (as the usb stick size will decrease and the file to put on the usb stick
>> will be easier to setup, there is no double partition anymore and so on,
>> still I think that lower than 8go usb stick won’t be a real use to anybody).
>>
>> I think that it would be just perfect if OSGeo can have a booth at the
>> FOSS4G-Europe 2017 for distributing the OSGeoLive USB stick.
>>
>> Gérald Fenoy
>> gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr
>> FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Conference Chair
>> https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/
>>
>> > Le 19 mai 2017 à 17:52, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> a écrit :
>> >
>> > Gérald:
>> >
>> > To proceed we would need to get a better idea of costs involved. I know
>> you have a hard cap on attendees of 400 - how many sticks would you be
>> printing and do you have a quote we can work from?
>> >
>> > Are we sharing this cost with the LOC? OSGeo live is bootable so it
>> cannot really be used to easily give people a copy of the event program
>> (unless you make a partition I guess).
>> >
>> > I would like to considers USB sticks as part of our expense in
>> attending the event - while they are a good tool they are only one of the
>> tools available.
>> > --
>> > Jody
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 3:10 AM Fenoy Gerald <gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear marketing committee,
>> > I would like to know if it is possible for the FOSS4G-Europe 2017 LOC
>> to ask the OSGeo marketing committee for some fund to handle the USB stick
>> production to give to every attendees.
>> >
>> > The USB stick should contains OSGeoLive and the program associated with
>> the event. The USB Sticks will then be used during the workshops, mainly
>> for those that ask attendees to come with their own computer but it may
>> also be used in other workshops also.
>> >
>> > I hope to hear back from you.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> >
>> > Gérald Fenoy
>> > gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr
>> > FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Conference Chair
>> > https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/
>> >
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