Bob, Alex:
What still needs to be done is to set up a distribution process.
1. Define a criteria for why a group will / will not be allocated
OSGeo-Live USBs / DVDs, and how many they can be allocated. Eg: a FOSS4G
related event can have number of USBs = 10% of number of attendees,
handed out from a booth. Paid workshops should cover the cost of USBs
for attendees. ...
2. Someone needs to write up a budget, which is then approved by
marketing committee / board.
3. Someone needs to select a printer, and sort out a payment method.
4. Someone needs to volunteer to administer requests. Ie, approve
requests according to criteria, then send request to printer and have
the USBs posted out.
On 3/03/2015 5:36 am, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
All,
I would like to be able to request a 100 or so at a time, whenever we get low <
25-30 ?? Related to the building of the USB's we've found it very convenient to
be able to re-write them between versions, which doesn't negate having that done
already. We always seem to have 10-20 of them from the previous release that we
end up repurposing for the newer version.
For the groups information, we're able to get them for < $5.oo per, locally,
for a 8gig USB, but we do the labeling (one side our logo, one side OSGeo's) and
loading on our own.
Bobb
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Mandel [mailto:tech_...@wildintellect.com]
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 11:49 AM
To: Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul); live-demo@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] USB costs/reimbursment.
On 03/02/2015 09:37 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
All,
We've been attending local conferences steadily over the last couple of years,
and we've been handing out OSGeo Live USBs at all of the conferences.
Usually the attendees at the Live DVD presentation each get one, and select
visitors to our (SharedGeo) booth.
We've been handing out between 50 and 70 USBs per show based on number of
attendees.
Question, we've been footing the bill up till now on these, but the numbers
we're needing to bring along to conferences are starting to rise.
So. I've been seeing other reimbursements for USBs and I think we've been going
at it long enough to ask for some help on costs. We would like to continue to
offer these USBs, and have a good process in place to do the copy ourselves;
we've even set things up to recopy when a new version comes out with any of the
USBs we have on hand at the time soas not to be handing out stale material.
With the recent discssions I've been seeing, there still isn't a cast in stone
method of providing support for the USBs as a promotional item for OSGeo (is
there?).
If the USbs could be paid for, we would be in much better shape, and we would
still go the route of generating the USBs on our own, at least for the next few
forseeable versions of OSGeo-live that will be released.
Has a central vendor process been defined for purchase of the USBs? We buy
them at retail locally, and I would imagine that they could be purchased
cheaper in volume.
Anyway, just letting the community know that we're on the job as far as
promotions go.
Bobb
We have a source for them with data preloaded at under $6 each (including
printed logos). There is discussions to get OSGeo budget approval (Outreach and
Marketing Committee) to make a bulk purchase and then send packages of various
amounts to groups like yours that request them. I'm not sure what else needs to
happen to get the approval to make the orders, Cameron do you know?
Thanks,
Alex
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