On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:47:30PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > 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. I recall such a device being present at LinuxTag about 5 years ago. However, I also seem to recall it, and the booth, being overwhelmed by people wanting to take advantage of it. In some sense that's a good problem to have (would we?); in another larger sense, lots of dissatisfied people. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
