[NYCBSDCon] Hard Media Idea

[George Rosamond]

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.


Very much.

But let's see how this could fit into the first con.

I do like the idea of lightning-like booths/tables at some point, spread
around the place.  Make it interactive, break the barriers, get people
interacting.

How connected should those sessions be to the theme of the event?  I
mean, someone showing how to use crochet for fbsd to build
RPi/BBones/etc.. relevant to "BSD in the Wild"?  Should it?

g