Live DVD
Posted by Ian Edwards on August 26, 2013
Hi Steven,
OSGeo Live has emerged today on schedule and is ready to print. I think we should go for the cheaper colour labels (non-water proof), but I've listed the options below. If we go with the cheaper option then I should be able to put this on my credit card. If we choose an expensive version then I'd probably ask Claire to place the order.
http://www.vponline.co.uk/quote.html
Total cost for 800 units - DVD - in clear plastic wallet
* Inkjet colour = £290
* Inject colour with waterproof coating = £520
* Thermal colour = £636
The clear plastic wallets are free. We can order without if we prefer.
Also - they are quoting for duplication (burning) instead of replication (pressing). Because of our order size we can benefit from using the later, which means the discs will last longer. They indicate that this is cheaper for orders over 500+, but I need to confirm the price by phone, certainly it is faster.
I'll also circulate example artwork for the DVD label before submitting an order.
Ian
P.S. Many thanks Jo for the recommendation. It is reassuring to use a company that we've used before and not had any issues with.
OSGeo Live has emerged today on schedule and is ready to print. I think we should go for the cheaper colour labels (non-water proof), but I've listed the options below. If we go with the cheaper option then I should be able to put this on my credit card. If we choose an expensive version then I'd probably ask Claire to place the order.
http://www.vponline.co.uk/quote.html
Total cost for 800 units - DVD - in clear plastic wallet
* Inkjet colour = £290
* Inject colour with waterproof coating = £520
* Thermal colour = £636
The clear plastic wallets are free. We can order without if we prefer.
Also - they are quoting for duplication (burning) instead of replication (pressing). Because of our order size we can benefit from using the later, which means the discs will last longer. They indicate that this is cheaper for orders over 500+, but I need to confirm the price by phone, certainly it is faster.
I'll also circulate example artwork for the DVD label before submitting an order.
Ian
P.S. Many thanks Jo for the recommendation. It is reassuring to use a company that we've used before and not had any issues with.
Comments
Steven Feldman on August 26, 2013:
I agree re printing. Go with most economic version.
Thanks for looking after this
Cheers to all the team from beautiful Galway
Ian Edwards on August 27, 2013:
Attached is the label that I'm intending to use, if they require artwork immediately then I will us this - otherwise feedback can be incorporated.
Barry Rowlingson on August 27, 2013:
FOSS4G!
this is what happens when you mess with logo files!
Barry Rowlingson on August 27, 2013:
Jo Cook on August 27, 2013:
Barry Rowlingson on August 27, 2013:
The truncated arrows are good (although they don't hit the bullseye!).
Ian Edwards on August 27, 2013:
The arrows will get truncated (at the green line I think). I'll have to remove the green template lines before I submit it as bitmap, otherwise they'll print them.
Barry Rowlingson on August 27, 2013:
Jo Cook on August 27, 2013:
Ian Edwards on August 27, 2013:
Jo Cook on August 27, 2013:
Ian Edwards on August 27, 2013:
There's no way I'm sending them a jpeg, so I've started with PDF... I'm hoping to have artwork agreed by the time they receive the disc in the post.
Jo Cook on August 27, 2013:
Yeah, that sounds familiar. I think when I ordered from them, they phoned me up and said that all the links on the page in the osgeo svn had made their computers crash! Having said that, I've had no complaints with the results, or the price or speed of service.
Jo
Matt Walker on August 27, 2013:
How does the 800 units breakdown and in particular have we budgeted for the LiveDVDs being used for workshops?
Matt.
Matt Walker on August 27, 2013:
Ian Edwards on August 27, 2013:
My understanding is that people attending workshops will register early,
and receive their conference pack with OSGeo Live early.
Those who are not attending the conference will presumable just receive the
DVD.
If, instead, we gave DVDs to the presenters to hand out then it's likely
that people will receive multiple copies and we wouldn't have enough.
The 7.0 ISO can be downloaded from either:
http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/7.0/
Or
http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/7.0/
Matt Walker on August 27, 2013:
Steven Feldman on August 28, 2013:
We should have a box near the door so that people who don't want to take the DVD home can recycle them for further use in teaching etc
Ian Edwards on August 28, 2013:
total. I've been in touch with them this evening and there seem to be no
issues.
Matt Walker on August 28, 2013:
Jeremy Morley on September 3, 2013:
Urgent query: have the Live DVDs been ordered yet?
I was wondering whether it's worth getting some subset to use for workshops which are pre-configured for the university network's proxies? It makes them more awkward to use after the conference but possibly makes the relevant workshops easier to run.
Jeremy
Ian Edwards on September 4, 2013:
The master DVD has been with the printers (vponline) for about a week. I
believe that some/all have been created and that they are now in the
process of printing the labels. We ordered 1,000 units in the end.
Is it possible to have a script that updates the proxy settings? Then
people could adjust their settings (and keyboard map: setxkbmap gb) just by
downloading the script:
e.g.
wget http://github.com/../foss4g_update.sh
./foss4g_update.sh
Let me know if I can help with this.
Jeremy Morley on September 4, 2013:
Ian Edwards on September 10, 2013:
I'll report success on the live mailing list
Jo Cook on September 10, 2013:
Jo
Steven Feldman on September 10, 2013:
Ian Edwards on September 10, 2013:
posting.
I'll also have a small van on site all week (Sunday - Sunday) if anything
needs transporting anywhere.