Re: Live CDs for upcoming shows

On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:00 PM, David Fetter wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 02:38:46PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> O.k. folks, it is that time of year again. Normally we press
>> anywhere from 500-1000 live cds for the upcoming years events.
>> However, I am starting to wonder if it is worth it.
>
> -1
>
> If we're going to hand out images, it'd be a *lot* better if they're
> suitable for the ubiquitous USB keys everybody seems to have these
> days.  That way, we're not lugging tons of the things around in the
> hope that 5% of the people who pick one up ever boot it, and the
> people who get the images are guaranteed to care because they're
> willing to wait a few minutes while the image transfers to their key.


Also perhaps useful: don't have them on display.

Give them away to interested people.  You know, after you've been
talking to them for X minutes and they seem like great candidates
for such swag.

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Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/