Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi James, others, Yes, please do share any tips, tricks and tools you have worked out re USB creation (and other tips) in our wiki. A starting point for collecting USB ideas is here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB And if you have ideas which are "production rea

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread James Klassen
Not sure if it is useful to others but I wrote a program [1] to help me when Bob wants a bunch of OSGeo-Live thumb drives created. It isn't by any means perfect or 100% foolproof but it sure makes the job quicker for me. It takes an image and waits for USBs of the same size to be inserted, then c

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Suchith Anand
OSGeo Live is one of the excellent success stories of OSGeo and it is important as a community we need to pool our ideas/resources for not only keeping building upon this but expanding for the future. Hence i put this in the wider lists to stimulate ideas. For example at the recent RDA meetings

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
Bas, We’ve been making Thumb drives for a few years now and DVDs before that. We’ve been making the Thumb Drives by hand on our own, which is a bit of time and effort to complete. We’ve been handling this for our own promotional purposes of OSGeo, etc and have only been building less than 75

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Bas Couwenberg
On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote: Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat, an idea to consider on this . . . what about . . . having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in place for providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different devices and (portable) service

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
All, Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat, an idea to consider on this . . . what about . . . having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in place for providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different devices and (portable) services. For example, * Generating the Thumb