[Marketing] FOSS4G-Europe 2017: OSGeoLive on USB stick
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed Jun 21 04:22:46 PDT 2017
Re questions about schedule, the OSGeo-Live schedule is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kO6zzmLFfprZGgp5x7Sjwi-EVN6NTGDR4KXvFVtNpR0/edit?hl=en_GB&hl=en_GB#gid=0
You will notice that we try to list upcoming FOSS4G events which will be
using OSGeo-Live, along with a point of contact.
Please do add in any events we are missing.
Cheers, Cameron
On 21/6/17 1:12 am, Guido Stein wrote:
> I have not time frame right now, should have more details next week.
>
> -guido
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:11 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> That is cool, I might recommend including osgeo live as a VM then,
> rather than as a bootable USB stick. It should also be cheaper to
> order with that setup.
>
> What is the timeframe Guido (for example when are the academic
> papers available to you?)
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 20 June 2017 at 08:08, Guido Stein <gstein at appgeo.com
> <mailto:gstein at appgeo.com>> wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
> FOSS4G Boston plans on creating USB sticks for all the
> workshop attendees and potentially for all the conference
> attendees. We want create a OSGeo Live USB, but we also need
> to include academic papers from our conference. We plan on
> paying for these ourselves.
>
> I have expressed interest in helping others by adding our
> order to others in order to bring the cost down, but at this
> point I think we are now needing something special and our
> order is going to be on our own. That said, if anyone can
> recommend a provider for USB sticks I am all ears and
> appreciate the help.
>
> -Guido
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:36 AM Jody Garnett
> <jody.garnett at gmail.com <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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 <mailto:gerald.fenoy at geolabs.fr>
> FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Conference Chair
> https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/
>
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