Good news about the budget, We should probably coordinate on the live.osgeo.org email list, perhaps virtualbox and a vm would be easier than a partition.
-- Jody Garnett On 20 June 2017 at 08:18, Fenoy Gerald <gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr> wrote: > Dear Jody, > we had only budget for producing the key but no budget for putting > material on it, let say 2000€. Note that the USB sticks has been ordered > already. So the budget has gone. > > Hopefully, we have found some benevolent for partitioning and putting the > material on the USB sticks. > > The idea is to have both the conference material and the OSGeoLive > environment provided to the attendees on USB sticks. I hope we can make it. > > I hope to be clear and have answered your question > > Gérald Fenoy > gerald.fe...@geolabs.fr > FOSS4G-Europe 2017 Conference Chair > https://europe.foss4g.org/2017/ > > > Le 20 juin 2017 à 16:35, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > 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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