On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:47:30PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:20:21AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > How many USB 8 gb sticks could we order with that money (the 1750?)? And
> > how instead of giving it away we went to a 'earn the fob by sharing or
> > helping someone else' system?
>
> At some non-Fedora-focussed conferences I've been at, people we clearly very
> excited about the USB stick because OOOH FREE USB STICK. I'm interested in
> your "earn by helping" idea -- how would that work? If we went to bigger,
> more expensive USB media, it *would* be nice to make sure people are not
> taking them just to reformat without caring about Fedora at all.
Maybe we can create machine like OpenSUSE studio - stand, you put *your*
flash drive to the machine, select what product you want to upload to you
flash drive, while uploading, show some nice presentation about Fedora
etc. And it can also burn media :).
It could be cheap now to create such device, just some manual work
would be required to create nice box.
Jaroslav
I had a similar idea. Why not have a box+wifi access point with local copies
for download? Should be pretty quick over local lan for the downloads, plus
people could do that during talks, not just in between talks. Also, regarding
the "challenge" to get a USB key or some other swag, the challenge could reside
on the box with the images (I'm envisioning something like a Fedora python
challenge [0]).
Talking to MarkDude in #fedora-mktg, he thought there could easily be a FAD to
develop something like this. It would by no means replace physical media, but
might be able to extend the visibility of the Fedora booth pretty well.
I have more thoughts on how it could be implemented and leveraged, but will hold
off until the brain trust has some time to decide if it's worth going after.
[0]
http://www.pythonchallenge.com/
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