F21 media

[Paul W. Frields]

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.

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