[Ubuntu-be] IRC meeting 26/05/2011 – Report (USB stick)

[Ward De Ridder]

2011/5/29 wouter Vandenneucker <woutervddn op hotmail.com>

> C. USB sticks:
> - The ML loves the idea
> - We can put our custom ISO on it (volunteers Apply via ML)
> - We shouldn't make a loss on it
> - Needs to be a real Ubuntu-be stick
> - Depending on the price we might take USB 3.0 (Although 2.0 is still
> adviced)
> - We can use dd to create them
> - 4GB is adviced (price is in consideration though)
> - At least 3 volunteers are needed to do this
> - Final Call by Council
> - 20 to 30 stick test-drive project is a good idea (although a bigger order
> is required if we want custom branded sticks)
> - Council is discussing this
>

Hello All,

I also love the USB stick idea, and I've got some ideas about it:
DSL is offering something similar [1], they ask $65 for a 4Gb preloaded
stick, if they can get away with that, we should definately be able to get
away with €20 or something like that for 4Gb.
That stick also contains a QEMU virtual machine [2] that boots if the stick
is started from a windows computer, maybe we can do something like that as
well, if It's really portable and we can get it to work on computers with
limited premissions (school, work, ...) I think this can become a hit.

Maybe we can buy this tux stick if we need only 20-30 of them and want it to
be a linux-gadget:
http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/Pingouin-USB-FlashDrive-2GB-Emtec-PRO-FACTURE-GAR-/170643843636?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_23&hash=item27bb2a6a34
(2gb)
http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/Pingouin-USB-FlashDrive-4GB-Emtec-PRO-FACTURE-GAR-/170643843607?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_23&hash=item27bb2a6a17
(4gb)

or maybe this one, I think this is a little flatter:
http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/Cute-Penguin-USB-flash-pen-drive-memory-stick-4GB-/260788364444?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3cb832a49c
(4gb)

I am quite sure I can fix some discount if we decide to buy 20 or 30 of them
at one time.

If you need aditional volunteers to create and ship the sticks I can do
that.
Also starting form the 22nd of juin my exams are over so I've got time to
figure out how we can change the ISO and how we can do the QEMU thing (if
you like this idea).

I also found this:
http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/Souris-USB-Penguin-ABS-24244-/290493584275?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_71&hash=item43a2c45393
I really love the look of that, but maybe that is a litle off-toppic if
we're talking about USB sticks.


Ward

[1] http://damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html
[2] http://damnsmalllinux.org/usb-qemu.html
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