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

[Jody Garnett]

If we did a large "printing run" in north america for foss4g and foss4g
europe I could bring a batch to foss4g europe.

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Jody Garnett

On 1 June 2017 at 13:58, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looping in the OSGeo-Live list.
>
> In particular, I suspect Brian Hamlin will have some valuable advice on
> creating OSGeo-Live USBs as he has gone through this process a few times.
>
> Brian might even be able to recommend a company to create the USBs for you.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
>
>
> On 2/6/17 4:39 am, Fenoy Gerald wrote:
>
>> Jody,
>> we shall be able to afford the empty USB Stick.
>>
>> Gérald Fenoy
>> gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr
>> FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Conference Chair
>> https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/
>>
>> Le 1 juin 2017 à 20:41, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>> 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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