Indeed, the cost of USB sticks is way higher to be worth thinking of replacing CDs/DVDs with those. We've also thought of getting a USB maker sponsor but at the end (even if we had found one) it would have been a lot better for our actions to get the equivalent cost and invest it in our activities rather than 300 to 500 hundred USB sticks (which still wouldn't allow teams to redistribute them regardless).

In fact earlier on the list we were discussing on making a USB burning machine to allow people to come with their own sticks and get the software they want, be it a GNU/Linux distribution or a Windows FOSS disc. We feel that DVDs are a bit medium of the past, new laptops seldom have a drive by default, and everyone seems to walk around with USB sticks. Maybe in your case of setups CDs/DVDs still work best though. Or are we wrong to think every one has a stick with him/her?

Thanks for the feedback as this is really useful.

Fred



On 10/11/2013 10:29 PM, murphnj wrote:
Oh, and one other thing, as well as giving out copies of various Linux
distros, I think that it is crucial to have something for Windows and
Mac users.  We had burned copies of Valo-CD since TheOpenDisc was more
than a year out of date.

Valo seems to be going USB-drive only, however.  We can manage to burn
several dozen copies of CD (or DVDs) to give away, but I don't see it
being feasible to buy USB sticks for all potential walk-up interested
parties.

Hopefully we can continue to have those giveaways for people, it seems
to be one of our strongest tools.


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