Re: [Ambassadors] Custom printed USB flash drives for schwag/sale

[Karlie Robinson <karlie_robinson webpath net>]

Why not just do stickers? 
Print up a bunch of, version independent ones and use them whenever you 
want. 

Something like http://www.dometag.com/

Then if you really want to get fancy, a Kingston Data traveler is 
designed to accept a customizing label.  In fact when you buy one, the 
side with the metal label hardly stays in it's little recess.  It's 
suppose to come out. 

~Karlie

David Nalley wrote:
> Hi Matt!
>
> I think RH had a number printed up for the last RH summit or FUDCon.
> That being said - it looks like we'd be talking 10-12 dollars for a
> 1GB USB drive replete with logo based on my 5 minutes with Google if
> we ordered several hundred.
> But please attend the meeting and bring this up.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Nalley
>
> 2008/7/29 Matt McKenzie <linuxknight fedoraproject org>:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> > NA Ambassador here, just finished with OReilly OSCON last week, had a great
> > turnout (from what I saw anyway).
> >
> > I spoke a bit with Jack Aboutboul during the OSCON about revisiting the
> > topic of custom printed USB flash drives for schwag, and also possibly to
> > offer for sale.
> > He said that it has been tried before (I noticed later he has one), but it
> > turned out to be somewhat expensive, and the drives were too small to be
> > useful for our purposes, such as only 256M or 512M (bootable livecd based
> > Fedora system needs 700M at least).  Now USB drives are getting bigger and
> > cheaper for the size, so a 1GB or 2GB drive should be more reasonable price
> > I would think.
> >
> > I have done a little preliminary scouting, but since I don't know what kind
> > of quantities we want I can't really get quotes, and Jack didn't mention
> > what company was used before.
> >
> > He said to bring the topic up on the mailing list for discussion, so here I
> > am, and here it is.
> >
> > It looks like there is a NA meeting tonight, I'll do my best to make it and
> > bring it up there too.
> >
> >
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