[NYCBSDCon] Hard Media Idea

[Isaac (.ike) Levy]

On September 11, 2013 11:00:55 PM EDT, Brian Callahan 
<bcallah at devio.us> wrote:

> On 9/11/2013 2:51 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote:
>>
>> Word,
>>
>> On September 11, 2013 02:34:52 PM EDT, Brian Callahan <bcallah at devio.us>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/11/2013 2:23 PM, Isaac (.ike) Levy wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On September 11, 2013 01:42:40 PM EDT, Brian Callahan <bcallah at devio.us>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I would still like having people walk away with ready to go images
>>>>> with tons of services and dev tools. I know that we can't guarantee
>>>>> they'll be used but we never know who the next big user/promoter/dev
>>>>> is.
>>>>
>>>> Heck yeah.  Tangible, living, schwag.
>>>>
>>>> I even think optical media is appropriate, if we can get people to
>>>> donate it?  (e.g. OpenBSD is still hard media, FreeBSD Mall does disks,
>>>> [not sure what Net is doing these days, dragonfly is likely a noop for
>>>> media.)  PfSense?
>>>>
>>>
>>> OpenBSD in some spaces is USB/SD install - loongson and the ARM
>>> platforms come to mind. But sure we could spin CDs (or sell official
>>> from OpenBSD or FreeBSD Mall).
>>
>> How about then we focus on just USB sticks and SD cards?
>>
>> If the official CD folks can interact and get media on-site, I think
>> that's great- free or booth or whatever.
>>
>>>
>>>> Along with the oldschool instant gratification, I think hard media has
>>>> an even greater resonance, with all this year's net/crypto hyjinks.
>>>>
>>>>> We could even get a bunch of cards for people who don't bring their own
>>>>> and sell them basically at card cost (plus maybe $1) and add whatever
>>>>> money we make on it back into the profits.
>>>>
>>>> Yes. I think this is awesome.  Micro-SD is perfect, the ones with SD
>>>> adapter sleves are common...  4Gb or whatever is common/'small' should
>>>> do, no?
>>>>
>>
>> Cool.  Now to find bulk pricing?  Hrm...
>>
>
> Bulk-ish... but otoh, I don't know how many we'd need/want.
> http://dx.com/p/tf-micro-sd-memory-card-w-sd-adapter-4gb-126302
>

SLAMMIN- dx is perfect for this.

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