[us-marketing] DVD as swag for upcoming OSCON

Hi,

As folks likely know OSCON is coming up the middle of next month.

Both Simon and Jean will be attending.

The suggestion has been made to supply a disc image (or possibly on a 2
GB USB drive) for distribution at the conference.

Ok - the first thing that came to mind was TIME - not a lot.

First thought was to look to the libreoffice-na disk and see if that
might fit the bill. (Tim has been doing just a great job with that!)

Looking at the possible use of a 2GB USB of course poses a bit of a
problem - I went ahead and pulled all of the files off the
libreoffice-na.us server for the Libo 3.5.4 distribution ONLY and
generated a svelt 5 GB image...not so good for our purpose here.

I would like to propose we create a one-off use disk/USB image for the
OSCON conference.

To get to that I did the following so far:

1) Given that LibreOffice IMO really needs to focus on brand building,
particularly in the MS Windows space I would first drop all the
platforms other then Windows.

2) The current libreoffice-na disk includes additional OSS applications,
again I propose to drop everything not for Windows.

3) Documentation - again I would pare what is on the disk down. If there
is a 3.5 guide ready, then drop the older 3.3/3.x docs. DO NOT include
the odt files, only the pdf files.

Did all that and updated the associated HTML files last night - this
gives me an ISO file of 2.4 GB. 

This morning - 

4) The disk image included more then one portable LibreOffice images
included - I dropped all but the one of them (keeping the multi-language
file)

5) Ran through the other extra items, and again dropped all the files
other then the latest windows release.

- and the current iso image stands at 1.9 GB.(though I think this will
still be to big for the 2GB USB when unpacked...so still needs a little
more weight loss.)

I've also updated the DVD case artwork, the insert and the brochure for
version 3.5.4.

The iso is currently uploading to the lo-portal.us server so folks can
take a look (not the final work) - it should be done in about 3 hours
and I will follow up with a URL as soon as it is.

What I would propose is to go ahead and update this cover and the disk
label to show that it was distributed at OSCON 2012. I snagged some
artwork for doing this, not sure what steps (or rather who to ask) for
permission to do so from a trademark perspective - I'm hoping maybe
Simon could weigh in on that - if it seems like a good thing to do, and
I really think it is, the I could work on the artwork today.

So - this is a quick job of course and it will go better with help from
folks for sure - any thoughts or comments now would be appreciated -
otherwise, let's get this done, shall we.

Thanks much,

//drew






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