[NYCBSDCon] Hard Media Idea

[Brian Callahan]

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