Massimo Di Stefano wrote: > Hi All > > some ideas about the osgeo's live gis project, i'd like to know your opinion > about : > > - can we fix a date to start the up-to date work needed for the install > scripts to runs on unbuntu 9.10 ? > > - what about adding different architecture e.g. to have install scripts > running on "i386, x86_64, ppc" ? > > - can we contact the local chapter's asking for a "tester", so we can try to > adapt the scripts to run on different localization ? > |-- what do you think to add a directory in the svn tree : "localization" > and subdir for different language/local-chapters ... us, en, fr, it, de, ... ? > > - linux and geoscience .. i'd like the idea to have on a "dedicated" osgeo > live project, not only speciphic "geo" sw, i agree the we are on Osgeo, but > adding other science sw (like plotting tools, statistic and symbolic calculus > sw .. etc ... ) can be a cool start point for an live project dedicated to an > "educational" release (in this case ,"educational-release", i vote to > eliminate the mac and win installer and give more focus (and space) on new > sw, tutorial data and documentation) > > > thanks, > > Massimo. >
My previous comments were about priority not about end goal content. I do think that including things like R, GGOBI, etc is a great add to the disc especially since it integrates with other geospatial software. I would turn down things like Octave that are really unrelated to geospatial though. What I intended to push was just that we focus on getting OSGeo projects onto this next release. That way for future releases we can just update them and shift our focus to selecting the best "other" software to include. For the disc that we hand out the windows/mac installers to me are an important component. With all live discs I've used in the past, not all people are ready to jump to using linux, and having those installers handy for those that want to move from using the live to installation allows them to join the community quickly. I actually helped someone install QGIS/GRASS onto their Mac at the last conference I was at, thanks to the live disc I had. I hesitate to get into the architecture issue now too. We defaulted to i386 in order to ensure that the disc would run on the largest possible number of machines and reduce our complexity in building. Ideally as we move everything to deb packages and build them against multiple architectures this would solve itself and a metapackage would suffice that would be available on all the architectures. I also think we should postpone working to much on this until a future release do to complexity that it adds. One way to think about the concept is that we are putting together the geospatial live disc/vm/packages, which we would gladly contribute to Edubuntu, Posiedon etc for inclusion in their core. But we should limit ourselves to focusing on geospatial in order keep this task manageable, maximize our use of resources(people time), and not be redundant with all the other great working in FOSS out there. Keep in mind this is a base for others to build on, if you have time to take the core here and build 64 bit with the extra software you want your audience to have, that's awesome. But being realistic for the rest of us, we need to keep the scope manageable with the resources we have. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
