[Leaplist] Hamcation CD's and DVD's

[John Simpson]

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On 2009-01-09, at 1416, Phil Barnett wrote:
>
> Once you take the CD out of the wrapper, how do you identify it.
>
> We need to look professional. If we are going to do paper envelopes,  
> we need
> printed CD/DVD labels.
>
> This is not about doing it on the cheap. It's about looking good.

agreed.

i remember one year we had blanks which already had a plain white  
surface on them, and an inkjet printer with an insert to actually  
print the artwork on the CDs... but it sounds like those aren't the  
blanks you bought.

which means if we're going to use paper envelopes, we need somebody to:

- - buy enough sheets of CD labels to make 300 CDs, or a few more in  
case of problems (i'm pretty sure the board has already approved money  
for this, if not i think it's fair to say we will reimburse whoever  
buys 'em, just make sure you don't go crazy with it... also don't buy  
anything until the board picks somebody to actually DO the buying.)

- - somebody to design the artwork for the CDs.

- - somebody to physically print the labels, about 105 of each.

at the same time, we also need to figure out who's going to burn what.  
if the answer is anything other than "phil burns everything", then  
whoever's going to burn CDs needs to make arrangements with phil to  
pick up the blanks he's already purchased, or to get their own blanks  
and trade them for phil's blanks at the next installfest (which is the  
weekend before the hamcation.)

i have two CD burners sitting on the desk next to me, and i have an un- 
opened stack of 100 CD-Rs, so unless somebody else claims it first,  
i'll make 100 linux minut CDs. we need volunteers to burn the others.

somebody also needs to positively identify which "ham puppy linux"  
we'll have at the show, and the URL where we can download the ISO, so  
those people know where to get the ISO. i plan to download it and burn  
one for myself, and i'd like to actually have it installed on my  
machine "off to the side" where i'll have my radio hooked up to the  
computer and an antenna, and showing off how the digital software works.

at the next installfest, anybody who has a CD label "stamper" should  
bring it with them. that's when we'll take the burned CDs and the  
printed labels, introduce the two to each other, and feed them into  
paper sleeves.

and during the week after that, anybody who plans on working the table  
(i'll be there again) can take one of the "ham linux" CDs and spend  
some time playing with it at home, so they'll be familiar with it at  
the table.

one other point- has somebody spoken to the hamcation organizers about  
the logistics of putting an antenna up, either on the roof, or at  
least somewhere high enough to be useful? does somebody have an  
antenna we can use (i have a 5BTV in my parents' shed, but it hasn't  
been used in several years and i don't know if it's still in good  
shape or not) or do we plan to borrow parts from the guy at the next  
table and put it together on the spot? if so, do we have a way to  
contact him and make sure he's cool with loaning us the parts again  
this year?

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