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

Tue Jun 20 08:18:44 PDT 2017

Dear Jody,
we had only budget for producing the key but no budget for putting material on it, let say 2000€. Note that the USB sticks has been ordered already. So the budget has gone.

Hopefully, we have found some benevolent for partitioning and putting the material on the USB sticks. 

The idea is to have both the conference material and the OSGeoLive environment provided to the attendees on USB sticks. I hope we can make it.

I hope to be clear and have answered your question

Gérald Fenoy
gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr
FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Conference Chair
https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/

> Le 20 juin 2017 à 16:35, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Brian and Guido:
> 
> Chatting with Marc about marketing budget and trying to see what events we can ask the marketing committee to support.
> 
> When you say "we will be printing some kind of USB storage with branding" is that:
> a) The OSGeo Live project (does it have budget for printing).
> b) The marketing committee printing (should we balance need for new booth with USB printing)
> 
> Guido has expressed interest in having USB sticks at FOSS4G Boston. Gérald has expressed interest in having sticks at FOSS4G Europe. I am not sure if either of these two events has budget to work with or not?
> 
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
> On 6 June 2017 at 14:56, Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
> Hi Guido -  we just discussed this at the weekly project meeting on Freenode #osgeolive. We will be printing some kind of USB storage with branding.. the details will be decided,
> roughly by the end of June. thanks for your organizing work
>  
>   best regards from Berkeley, Califorina
>    --Brian M Hamlin
> 
>  
>  
> On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 18:39:06 0000, Guido Stein <gstein at appgeo.com> wrote:
> 
> So, does this mean anyone is makig a USB run or not?
> 
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 8:18 PM Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
> 
> So - USB Sticks
>  
>   TL;DR   
> I am hesitant to recommend building Boot USBs at this time.. It will take at least one test printing before committing to a run, if
> and when we do.  
> We can print USBs, probably a majority of people who receive them will be able to boot a laptop,
> others will need to use an ISO in Virtual Box or similar. FYI
> -
>   The USB Sticks format is not the same animal as the DVD was.. We made many DVDs and handed them out, over several versions.. the
> process was reliable,
> the options clear and the pricing competitive,,  We screen printed the
> DVDs, bought commodity covers,
> and the product could be built in a timely way by one of several vendors..  
>   The USB Sticks are not the same..   We have not made many runs of them..  
>   Technically, I am finding that there are at least two challenges.. One is the UEFI-Boot and signed kernel,
> and that would be the same for a DVD format.. but the Second is .. that
> many hardware platforms now seem
> to be treating USB boot as a vector for attack.. The user may have to
> choose at the BOOT BIOS level
> to allow the booting, and even then it is not clear to me that all the
> details on boot are being made public. Low-cost windows laptops and also very expensive server motherboards
> seem to both be behaving this way.  
>   The Live has implemented a proces that should allow the UEFI-Boot
> with a signed kernel to work.. but it is hard
> to get right.. the DVD in later versions suffered from this also..  
>  
>  
> On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:31:42 0000, Guido Stein <gstein at appgeo.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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