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

[Guido Stein]

I believe that there is budget for the sticks in Boston, but I think that
is tied to the workshop folks only currently.

That all said, if you could price this out, I will figure out how to help.

-Guido

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 5:03 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

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