USB Live pen creator poster

[Francesco Crippa]

Hi Ambassadors,

as I said some weeks ago, we need something to show "usb pen live creator"
process on fedora events.

Making usb live pen is one of the most useful stuff to do during events (really cheaper
and appreciated gadget). I and Luca Foppiano asked to Samuele Storari (maybe a new Fedora
contributor) to design a poster showing process.

I uploaded his work at this page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LiveUsbCreator

the idea is simple: print that poster and glue it on some "solid" support (maybe
carton box). Then make a hole into poster white space to take out an usb extension cable.

When a python script (developed by Matteo Castellini) recognize new usb device, launch usb
creator automatically, and play an mp3 at the end of process.

So we have the "usb live pen box"... Really easy to use (put usb on the poster
and wait for the "finished" sound). I hope this poster can help visitors to
discover our live pen service in a funny way :-)

I'd like to test this "box" during next event in Italy (Liberamente - Opera
- next Saturday).

What do you think about this idea? I'll try to upload some shots of final result on
flickr as soon as possible. We can spend a couple of minutes to improve this idea during
today emea ambassadors meeting.

Take care
bye

francesco


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[Kushal Das]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 04:57:53 pm Francesco Crippa wrote:
>  Hi Ambassadors,
>
>  as I said some weeks ago, we need something to show "usb pen live creator"
>  process on fedora events.
>
>  Making usb live pen is one of the most useful stuff to do during events
>  (really cheaper and appreciated gadget). I and Luca Foppiano asked to
>  Samuele Storari (maybe a new Fedora contributor) to design a poster showing
>  process.
>
>  I uploaded his work at this page:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LiveUsbCreator 
Isn't that Fedora logo
on the key is violating Logo usage rules ?

Kushal
-- 
Fedora Ambassador, India
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[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:57:45PM +0530, Kushal Das wrote:
>  On Wednesday 16 April 2008 04:57:53 pm Francesco Crippa wrote:
>  > Hi Ambassadors,
>  >
>  > as I said some weeks ago, we need something to show "usb pen live
> creator"
>  > process on fedora events.
>  >
>  > Making usb live pen is one of the most useful stuff to do during events
>  > (really cheaper and appreciated gadget). I and Luca Foppiano asked to
>  > Samuele Storari (maybe a new Fedora contributor) to design a poster showing
>  > process.
>  >
>  > I uploaded his work at this page:
>  > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LiveUsbCreator
>  
>  Isn't that Fedora logo on the key is violating Logo usage rules ? 
Yes, that logo needs to be fixed to match the actual Fedora logo.
That shouldn't be very hard... the board itself looks pretty great.  A
few changes I'd suggest:

* Change the release number to "9" everywhere

* Change the background theme to the new Fedora Waves, hopefully
  making it a bit darker so the poster is easier to read

* The text should read "You provide the pen. The rest is up to us."

Personally I think this is a fantastic effort.  And it's something
that Max and I have both been after -- the ability for someone to walk
up to the boot and walk away with a working Fedora.

One more thing that might be worth extending the script for -- getting
the person to join the Project while they're there, personalizing
their Live USB pen in the process.

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[Max Spevack]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:

>  Personally I think this is a fantastic effort.  And it's
> something 
>  that Max and I have both been after -- the ability for someone to walk 
>  up to the boot and walk away with a working Fedora. 
Well, here's what we will do at LinuxTag:

We'll have a computer in our booth that has several Fedora 9 ISOs on it.

We'll have a nice sign printed -- who wants to volunteer to make one -- 
that advertises "Live USB key station" or something like that.

People walk up with their USB key, and in 3 minutes we turn it into a 
Fedora 9 Live USB.  If it's a 1 GB key, they just get the ISO.  If it's 
a 2 GB key or larger, they get persistence too.

It's as simple as that.

--Max

Live USB @ LinuxTag

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:46:31PM -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
>  On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>
> > Personally I think this is a fantastic effort.  And it's something that 
> > Max and I have both been after -- the ability for someone to walk up to 
> > the boot and walk away with a working Fedora.
>
>  Well, here's what we will do at LinuxTag:
>
>  We'll have a computer in our booth that has several Fedora 9 ISOs on it.
>
>  We'll have a nice sign printed -- who wants to volunteer to make one -- 
>  that advertises "Live USB key station" or something like that.
>
>  People walk up with their USB key, and in 3 minutes we turn it into a 
>  Fedora 9 Live USB.  If it's a 1 GB key, they just get the ISO.  If it's a 2 
>  GB key or larger, they get persistence too.
>
>  It's as simple as that. 
Booya!

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[Joerg Simon]

Am Mittwoch, 16. April 2008 13:27:53 schrieb Francesco Crippa:
>  What do you think about this idea? I'll try to upload some shots
> of final
>  result on flickr as soon as possible. We can spend a couple of minutes to
>  improve this idea during today emea ambassadors meeting. 
That Fedora Live USB´s are cool gadgets is no secret, but what you guys have 
done - i think this is a new, fresh idea and i am excited to see it in action 
on Linuxtag - this can be a great magnet! There are some question how we can 
handle automatic overlay sizes, but this is one of the best Ideas since a 
long time for our work on Fedora Booth ;) Thanks guys to give us such a cool 
thing/idea/usbbox whatever ... 

cu 




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[Luca Foppiano]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:27 +0200, Francesco Crippa wrote:
>  Hi Ambassadors,
>  
>  as I said some weeks ago, we need something to show "usb pen live
>   creator" process on fedora events.
>  
>  Making usb live pen is one of the most useful stuff to do during events
>   (really cheaper and appreciated gadget). I and Luca Foppiano asked to
>   Samuele Storari (maybe a new Fedora contributor) to design a poster
>   showing process.
>  
>  I uploaded his work at this page:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LiveUsbCreator 
is simply awesome ;-)

>  the idea is simple: print that poster and glue it on some
> "solid"
>   support (maybe carton box). Then make a hole into poster white space
>   to take out an usb extension cable.
>  
>  When a python script (developed by Matteo Castellini) recognize new usb
>   device, launch usb creator automatically, and play an mp3 at the end
>   of process.
>  
>  So we have the "usb live pen box"... Really easy to use (put usb on the
>   poster and wait for the "finished" sound). I hope this poster can help
>   visitors to discover our live pen service in a funny way :-)
>  
>  I'd like to test this "box" during next event in Italy (Liberamente -
>   Opera - next Saturday). 
me too ;-)

>  What do you think about this idea? I'll try to upload some shots
> of
>   final result on flickr as soon as possible. We can spend a couple of
>   minutes to improve this idea during today emea ambassadors meeting. 
IMHO is a great killer `ubuntu ship-it marketing` idea ;-)

Luca
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[Jeffrey Tadlock]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Francesco Crippa <fcrippa(a)byte-code.com&gt; wrote:
>   I uploaded his work at this page:
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LiveUsbCreator
>
>   the idea is simple: print that poster and glue it on some "solid" support
> (maybe carton box). Then make a hole into poster white space to take out an usb extension
> cable.
>
>   When a python script (developed by Matteo Castellini) recognize new usb device, launch
> usb creator automatically, and play an > > >mp3 at the end of process.
>
>   So we have the "usb live pen box"... Really easy to use (put usb on the poster
> and wait for the "finished" sound). I hope this poster > can help visitors to
> discover our live pen service in a funny way :-)
>
>   What do you think about this idea? I'll try to upload some shots of final result on
> flickr as soon as possible. We can spend a couple > of minutes to improve this idea
> during today emea ambassadors meeting. 
Great work!  I really like the idea of having the stand-up poster on
the booth table with a USB extension cable and a person being able to
walk-by, plug in their USB key and have a copy of Fedora a few minutes
later.  Very good combination.

I hope you post the updated poster with Paul's changes to the wiki so
the whole community can benefit from the work you folks have done.

I am looking forward to using it at our release party!

Regards,
~Jeffrey

[Luca Foppiano]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 22:11 -0400, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote:

>  Great work!  I really like the idea of having the stand-up poster on
>  the booth table with a USB extension cable and a person being able to
>  walk-by, plug in their USB key and have a copy of Fedora a few minutes
>  later.  Very good combination.
>  
>  I hope you post the updated poster with Paul's changes to the wiki so
>  the whole community can benefit from the work you folks have done.
>  
>  I am looking forward to using it at our release party! 
now here: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LiveUsbCreator

you can find the updated version of both fedora 8 and 9 ;-)

regards 
Luca

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[Mike Chambers]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 15:24 +0200, Luca Foppiano wrote:

>  now here: 
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LiveUsbCreator
>  
>  you can find the updated version of both fedora 8 and 9 ;-) 
On the Fedora 8 one, where the slogan is at the top, maybe it should be
read in two lines and as below?

You provide the pen,
the rest is up to us! (you have it's instead of is)

The rest of it, to include F9 look awesome.  Nice work! :)
 
-- 
Mike Chambers
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[Diego Escobar]

>  now here:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LiveUsbCreator 
I like it so much.
Congratulations!

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Fedora Ambassador for Colombia
Fedora Release 8 (Warewolf): Linux Kernel 2.6.24 + Gnome 2.20

[Jason Fenner]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Francesco Crippa <fcrippa(a)byte-code.com&gt;
wrote:

>  Hi Ambassadors,
>
>  as I said some weeks ago, we need something to show "usb pen live creator"
>  process on fedora events.
>
>  Making usb live pen is one of the most useful stuff to do during events
>  (really cheaper and appreciated gadget). I and Luca Foppiano asked to
>  Samuele Storari (maybe a new Fedora contributor) to design a poster showing
>  process.
>
>  I uploaded his work at this page:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/LiveUsbCreator
>
>  the idea is simple: print that poster and glue it on some "solid" support
>  (maybe carton box). Then make a hole into poster white space to take out an
>  usb extension cable.
>
>  When a python script (developed by Matteo Castellini) recognize new usb
>  device, launch usb creator automatically, and play an mp3 at the end of
>  process.
>
>  So we have the "usb live pen box"... Really easy to use (put usb on the
>  poster and wait for the "finished" sound). I hope this poster can help
>  visitors to discover our live pen service in a funny way :-)
>
>  I'd like to test this "box" during next event in Italy (Liberamente -
>  Opera - next Saturday).
>
>  What do you think about this idea? I'll try to upload some shots of final
>  result on flickr as soon as possible. We can spend a couple of minutes to
>  improve this idea during today emea ambassadors meeting.
>
>  Take care
>  bye
>
>  francesco
>
>
>  --
>  Francesco Crippa
>  http://people.byte-code.com/fcrippa
>  
Very good work.  Thank you for coming up with this idea and the Python
script to automate it.  I wish I had this for the last event I worked
(Notacon 5).
I'll take a look at the script and see if there's anything I can add.

Thanks again.