Hi Angelos,
Yes this is a great plan (I spoke with BrianH about this idea a few
months ago also).
For those unaware, individuals (often local chapter reps) order USB
drives from local distributors, and there are many many problems at
FOSS4G events with incorrect formatting of drives, wrong OSGeoLive
version, etc etc. Angelos and Brian are proposing that we use one
distributor and they handle creating the drives and ship them for all
events.
+1 !!!!!!
Can you all come up with cost estimates and let us know?
-jeff
On 2015-01-18 3:29 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
Hi Jeff,
After the problem we faced in 2014 creating working OSGeoLive USB drives
for FOSS4G, I propose that we should produce Live USBs massively this
year, and send to 2015 events according to estimated demand.
Thoughts?
Best,
Angelos
On 01/18/2015 09:02 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
Hello community!
It's important that we now come up with a budget for the OSGeo
organization for 2015. This is a great opportunity for committees such
as our Systems Architecture committee, or the Marketing committee, to
request funding to be put aside for spending for specific needs.
Thanks to a nice brief financial report from our Treasurer Mike Smith at
the last Board meeting[1], we know that we have approximately 250,000
USD cash on hand, plus another 100,000 USD to come from Portland FOSS4G
profits shortly.
I have started a template to record our 2015 budget in the wiki[2] and
the OSGeo Board will work with committees to update it;
please if you have a specific need for funding (servers, marketing
materials, anything) speak up here and we would like to put aside the
funds for your needs for 2015.
Thanks everyone,
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-01-15#Minutes
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2015
-jeff
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