[OSGeoLive] [FOSS4G-Oceania] Swag and howtos about OSGeoLive USB

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 03:52:52 PDT 2018


Thanks for the feedback Nicolas and Astrid.

Extra question from Martin below.

I'm looping in answers from 2 lists as I suspect these answers were not 
seen by all who are interested.

On 3/9/18 4:55 pm, Martin Tomko wrote:
> Any chance the usbs can be usb C compatible?  Many people do no longer 
> have usb 2 or 3 ports.

On 3/9/18 3:02 pm, Nicolas Roelandt wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> Cameron, that's great news !
>
> Astrid, did you encounted defects during the dd process ? If yes, how 
> many ?
>
> Yes, final wiki is Trac wiki. so all new information shoud be written 
> there.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
> Le dim. 2 sept. 2018 à 08:39, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) 
> <astrid_emde at osgeo.org <mailto:astrid_emde at osgeo.org>> a écrit :
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     Am 01.09.2018 23:50 schrieb Cameron Shorter:
>     > OSGeoLive folks,
>     >
>     > An OSGeoLive USB is high on the swag wish list for the upcoming
>     > FOSS4G-Oceania conference. We have a question below about whether we
>     > can fit extra data on the USB (I suspect a 8 Gig or 32 Gig USB). I
>     > know it has been done in the past, but am also aware that creating
>     > bootable USBs quite an art.
>
>     I ordered 16GB sticks with USB 3.0 at flashbay. There are quite good.
>     https://www.flashbay.de/usb-sticks
>     I have experience with twitter and kinetic - they are both fine.
>
>     The production with dd was ok but we spend a long time on it.
>     So maybe in your case it would make sense to ask the usb-provider
>     to add
>     the data directly on the stick.
>
>     How many sticks do you want to produce?
>
>     Please tell the workshop presenter to link their workshop material
>     here:
>     https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install
>
>     > Astrid, I think you have recently created USBs? Do you have any
>     advice
>     > to pass on (ideally collected in a wiki so we can share with
>     others).
>
>     There is this Wiki page already:
>     https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeoLive_Quickstart_USB
>
>     Shall we move it to trac-wiki?
>
>     Maybe you should use the final 12.0 iso and add you data.
>
>     > Ben, Brian, Alex, Angelos, you have also provided good advice on
>     this
>     > in the past and might be able to chip in.
>
>     Astrid
>
>     > Cheers, Cameron
>     >
>     > On 1/09/2018 10:27 AM, John Bryant wrote:
>     >
>     >> Re: USB stick, thanks Greg. There's an action item from a couple of
>     >> meetings ago for you to follow up on that idea, with some idea of
>     >> cost & effort involved, can you chase these details up and let us
>     >> know what you find out?
>     >>
>     >> If we can get an agency to pay for it, sounds great to me. We might
>     >> need to discuss though, there has been some resistance in this
>     group
>     >> against sponsorship of specific initiatives, because of potential
>     >> unfairness to sponsors we already have on board, who haven't
>     had the
>     >> opportunity to do so. But I don't think this is irreconcilable -
>     >> just need to have a proposal on the table I think, for proper
>     >> context for that discussion.
>     >>
>     >> Question - can you technically put both the OSGeoLive and
>     additional
>     >> content on one USB?
>     >>
>     >> Thanks
>     >> John
>     >>
>     >> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 00:28, Cameron Shorter
>     >> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>
>     wrote:
>     >>
>     >> +1 for USB stick with OSGeoLive + data. (Disclaimer, I have a soft
>     >> spot for OSGeoLive as I'm one of the people behind the project).
>     >>
>     >> On 29/08/2018 12:04 AM, Greg Lauer wrote:
>     >>
>     >> We talked briefly at last meeting about USB stick? My thoughst we
>     >> could put OSGeo-Live VM on there plus a open data form each
>     state. A
>     >> few years ago I got a USB stick from someone in Victoria who had
>     >> bundled all the VIC open data into a SQLite database (geopackge
>     now)
>     >> and created a QGIS project. Maybe replicate that for each state?
>     >>
>     >> There is some cost (and time) involved but think we could get an
>     >> agency to sponsor?
>     >>
>     >> Thoughts?
>     >>
>     >> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 2:19 PM Martin Tomko
>     <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au <mailto:tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>>
>     >> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> +1, great ideas.
>     >>
>     >> The #pyconau thread had some interesting stuff going on now, incl
>     >> someone who redesigned their swag.
>     >>
>     >> M.
>     >>
>     >> FROM: FOSS4G-Oceania <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on
>     >> behalf of Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu
>     <mailto:sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>>
>     >> DATE: Monday, 27 August 2018 at 2:14 pm
>     >> TO: Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com <mailto:dwsilk at gmail.com>>
>     >> CC: "foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>"
>     >> <foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org>>
>     >> SUBJECT: Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Swag
>     >>
>     >> Colouring book, could be great fun!! :) (esp if Oceania or
>     Melbourne
>     >> specific)
>     >>
>     >> I love these wearable map from splashmap [1]. and could be really
>     >> fun swag for a geo conference - we'd have to still design it
>     >> obviously... but probably this is not possible as too pricey
>     >> (although we could explore costs for batch cost). But not sure
>     would
>     >> anyone actually use it ... actually if it was Melbourne specific I
>     >> think they would, people could draw on it...and we can mark the
>     >> relevant buildings - we might need to provide a wash-off-able
>     >> (logo'd perhaps) pen too! We could continue this with fun social
>     >> media posts of people using their maps around the city!
>     >>
>     >> A tea towel is at least useful! and could be very cool if we have a
>     >> really great design.... Could we run a tea-towel design
>     competition?
>     >> i.e. Using open data and open software design a map for our
>     >> "FOSS4G-Oceania" merchandise (merc as this could go even beyond tea
>     >> towels to posters or flyers if we wanted). I think this could
>     be fun
>     >> and could create some buzz in the community before the conference
>     >> ... I imagine we could get some great entries even from outside the
>     >> immediate community. And then it goes to public vote, or we (I) can
>     >> probably get some people together as a panel of data vis
>     >> /cartography / design experts to critic and shortlist them
>     first? we
>     >> could hae even different designs and people get them at random - we
>     >> might see some swaps...
>     >>
>     >> Bookmarks could be nice, although I rarely use them myself.
>     Whilst I
>     >> like the idea of giving books to go with them but it seems
>     expensive
>     >> and difficult to give people books relevant to them and I think we
>     >> will end up with lots being left behind partly as they weigh
>     luggage
>     >> down! It still might be nice to have some relevant books available
>     >> to win if we have money available - maybe a collection of different
>     >> ones and the draw happens in the few days before the conference...
>     >> Everyone with a ticket gets the chance to win and then they
>     choose a
>     >> book relevant to them when they get there (first come first
>     serve on
>     >> choice). (If people don't want a book then we get to re-draw for
>     >> prize winners).
>     >>
>     >> On Sun, 26 Aug 2018 at 16:55, Daniel Silk <dwsilk at gmail.com
>     <mailto:dwsilk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 2:23 PM Alex Leith
>     <alexgleith at gmail.com <mailto:alexgleith at gmail.com>>
>     >> wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> I’m still super keen on tea towels! Maybe I’m a bit of an old
>     >> man, but I could always use of tea towels and having one that
>     >> reminds me of our conference would be great!
>     >>
>     >> If someone can design a nice tea towel using OpenStreetMap data and
>     >> the conference logo, I think it would make a good speaker gift.
>     >>
>     >> It's a bit jarring to me as an item that we put the Platinum
>     >> sponsors logos on though.
>     >>
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