A QR Code pointing to http://www.sagenb.org/ at the both could be a way to get people to try sage on their phone or tablet. Using sage online is a nice option for people who don't want to install software.
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Emil Widmann <emil.widm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, December 6, 2012 2:05:52 AM UTC+8, kcrisman wrote: >>>> >>>> As for equipment, there's been talk recently about a bootable USB thumb >>>> drive with Sage on it. Having various ways to hand out Sage to people who >>>> bring their laptops by would be great. >>>> >>> >>> The possibility to create working bootable USB sticks from the Sage Live >>> CD is there at least since 3 years. If you have a computer running sage live >>> CD on it then you can install it to the peoples sticks (GUI interface) - >>> would also be possible directly at the exhibition. In most cases people can >>> keep there data on the stick, because the distro just needs 600 MB free in >>> its own folder (not a dedicated partition). >>> >> >> I think they meant the possibility of *bringing* such sticks :-) but yes, >> this is great. In fact, I have a USB just sitting around here, maybe I >> should put Sage on it... >> >> Note that http://usbsuperstore.com/usb-silk has a picture of a >> custom-branded USB with Sage on it - except probably some other Sage ;-) >> Unfortunately, all the wholesalers I saw (there are a LOT) want you to type >> in information for a quote, they don't just have a quote for (say) a 2GB >> nothing special drive. It would be interesting to have a company preload >> Emil's image for 5.4.1 on USBs with the Sage logo and URL on it, I don't >> know if that would be worth the expense, though... since Sage *is* free >> anyway... > > > It is of course nice to distribute premade sticks. But the other way you can > show how easy it is to get sage running. Normaly the installation on the > stick should be done in 2 minutes. Rebooting the laptop, maybe fiddling a > bit with the bios boot settings etc... sage should run in 5-10 minutes. Of > course there are those new machines with this secure boot thingy ... > Anyhow it should be a good exersice for people to create a working USB > install, and then they can redistribute it this way at home. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
