[Live-demo] Do we want OSGeo-Live on a USB or DVD at FOSS4G?

[Jody Garnett]

 As someone who used both in 2010 - the experience of the USB was much much better (actually worth demonstrating). I also note that more and more laptops are not coming with a DVD drive. 

-- 
Jody Garnett


On Tuesday, 9 August 2011 at 9:29 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> Peter,
> Could you please organise to us with an indication of what distribution 
> formats will be available to us at FOSS4G.
>  From feedback we have been getting, I'm guessing that if there is 
> sufficient budget, it would be good to have a mix of USB and DVDs. We 
> might only provide USBs to VIPs (as per foss4g 2010. From memory, around 
> 150 8Meg USBs were printed).
> 
> On 09/08/11 19:45, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> > I would prefer a USB drive:
> > 1) my netbook does not have a dvd device
> > 2) it is *much* faster. I could get something done on a usb device.
> >  From a dvd, that is much harder. Usuability and speed go hand in hand.
> > If I want to test an application and it takes too long to boot, I'm
> > already busy doing something different.
> > 3) Unfortunately no experience building a usb version of the live dvd
> > (I use a virtual machine).
> > 
> > Johan
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Cameron Shorter
> > <cameron.shorter at gmail.com (mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com)> wrote:
> > > OSGeo-Live will be handed out to all delegates at FOSS4G 2011 in Denver, and
> > > what I'd like to know is whether we should distribute on a DVD or USB.
> > > 
> > > In Barcelona, we were unsure whether the USB version would work on most
> > > computers, so we gave USB's to presenters only, who we thought would likely
> > > be forgiving if it didn't work) and we gave DVDs to everyone else.
> > > 
> > > So my question to the community is:
> > > If you were given an OSGeo-Live DVD at FOSS4G 2010, were you able to boot
> > > from it on your computer (and whatever other computers you may have at
> > > home)?
> > > 
> > > If you have experience building a bootable USB, I'd also like to hear from
> > > you.
> > > Probably best to reply to myself and/or live-demo at lists.osgeo.org (mailto:live-demo at lists.osgeo.org) and avoid
> > > swamping the discuss list with traffic.
> > > 
> > > On 03/08/11 06:26, Peter Batty wrote:
> > > > Do you have a preference between DVD and USB? My laptop doesn't do DVDs so
> > > > I guess I have an inclination for at least having some USBs in the mix.
> > > > Don't know how costs compare though, will research further.
> > > 
> > > --
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> -- 
> Cameron Shorter
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