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

Tue Jun 20 10:31:23 PDT 2017

Good news about the budget,

We should probably coordinate on the live.osgeo.org email list, perhaps
virtualbox and a vm would be easier than a partition.

--
Jody Garnett

On 20 June 2017 at 08:18, Fenoy Gerald <gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr> wrote:

> 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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