Judit, I've just ented the German speaking fossgis conference dates into our schedule, and realise that the proposed 3.0 release date is after your conference. If you wish to have a new LiveDVD release for your conference, then we could either: * move the 3.0 release forward (not my preference as I don't think we will get sufficient uptake from packages in time) * put out a minor release for the German speaking FOSS conference, which would probably consist of upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, and possibly introducing German localisation, if a volunteer steps forward.
The key here is the level of interest and hence effort that the German community put forward in order to drive a release through. I hope that you can comment on that. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Judit Mays <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to mention the German speaking FOSSGIS conference [1], > March 2nd-5th 2010. I assume this might be too soon for the next > OSGeo-Disc (version 3.0)? > > I agree with Hamish to first solve the naming problem before a press > release. I also favour Cameron's intention to inform people before > season vacation. > > When I joined this list in mid year, I thought Arramagong was a cool > name for a conference handout in Australia. At that point I didn't know > about the GISVM/LiveDVD project's broader approach, and I am still not > sure about all aspects to it... > > I thought Arramagong was a release name, like Karmic Koala is for Ubuntu > 9.10. And I thought this a perfect idea, to have a release name that > suits the conference hosting country so well as does Arramagong. > > May be this might help to find a naming for the future? Even if it was > just a misunderstanding on my side, it might be a common > misunderstanding? Therefore I would suggest the regular standard name to > be fairly "boring" (technical, matter of factly) and add a touch of > spices with the yearly conference location giving some local touch. > "Gaudi" comes to my mind when thinking of Barcelona, and it would match > the next years conference logo as well. But please come up with > something else all together if you feel inspired... > > By the way, I seem to miss discussions on the projects contents like: > when did you guys talk about and decide that there should be 2 major > releases each year? My impression from the mails on this list was a > drift towards one major release towards FOSS4G and another minor half a > year later. I am wondering where these decisions are made and by whom? I > am just interested in the decision process. > > Don't get me wrong. I am not overly interested to have it this way or > that. There might be ups and downs for both ways. > > Some downs for two major releases from my perspective are: > * it would weaken my splendid idea of a conference-special-spicy-name > for the product ;-) > * some projects might decide to only update their GISVM/LiveDVD-versions > for the annual gathering of tribes (FOSS4G), as the work involved might > be too much if you can't find volunteers willing to go through the > process twice a year. > > Happy to hear your thoughts, > Judit > > [1] the only page I found with at least some English contents: > http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/wiki/2010/Call_for_Papers > > > Cameron Shorter schrieb: > > I've put together a draft schedule at: > > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tMRaCwabv7SiIG3moHEfMrQ&hl=en_GB > > And I'm interested to hear feedback on whether people think this is > > good. Note: I have 6 weeks factored in from Feature Freeze to Final > > Release, to allow for testing. > > > > Alex, I'm interested to know the dates up the upcoming conferences so > > that we can ensure we have the 3.0 DVD ready in time for it. > > > > I also have a draft press release which I think we should send out in a > > couple of days calling on projects to contribute toward the Live DVD. > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_1 > > > > Again, looking for feedback on this too. > > > > -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html
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