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 <gst...@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.garn...@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 <mapl...@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 <gst...@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 <mapl...@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 <gst...@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.garn...@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.shor...@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.fe...@geolabs.fr >>> FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Conference Chair >>> https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ >>> >>> Le 1 juin 2017 à 20:41, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@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.fe...@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.fe...@geolabs.fr >>> FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Conference Chair >>> https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ >>> >>> Le 19 mai 2017 à 17:52, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@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.fe...@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.fe...@geolabs.fr >>> FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Conference Chair >>> https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Marketing mailing list >>> market...@lists.osgeo.org >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >>> -- >>> -- >>> Jody Garnett >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Marketing mailing list >>> market...@lists.osgeo.org >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Marketing mailing list >>> market...@lists.osgeo.org >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >>> >>> -- >>> Cameron Shorter >>> M 61 419 142 254 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Marketing mailing list >>> market...@lists.osgeo.org >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing >>> >>> This e-mail message and any attachments may contain confidential or >>> legally privileged information. 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