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.
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).
Ben, Brian, Alex, Angelos, you have also provided good advice on this in
the past and might be able to chip in.
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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
+1, great ideas.
The #pyconau thread had some interesting stuff going on now,
incl someone who redesigned their swag.
M.
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*Subject: *Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Swag
Colouring book, could be great fun!! :) (esp if Oceania or
Melbourne specific)
I love these wearable map from splashmap
<http://www.splash-maps.com>. 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 <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 2:23 PM Alex Leith
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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