Scott,
I'm CCing the osgeo-live email list as others will likely have comments
and suggestions about including XCSoar on OSGeoLive. http://www.xcsoar.org/
On 23/09/2010 8:51 AM, Scott Penrose wrote:
Good morning Cameron
On 21/09/2010, at 10:04 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Scott,
I'm one of the people behind the OSGeo Live DVD
http://live.osgeo.org, where we package high quality Open Source
GeoSpatial applications.
My father, a glider pilot, suggested that XCSoar is another high
quality geospatial which we should consider including.
Does this interest you?
Yes very much. I went to FOSS4G in Sydney last year and the osgeo live
DVD was an excellent resource.
Great.
Currently XCSoar is running on Pocket PC and runs via WINE on Linux
and a native linux version (with X support) and a native Linux/Android
version is almost ready to trial.
Our next release will be ~ April next year.
What we will be looking for is a stable version from you, which will
install onto Ubuntu.
How can I help provide you what is necessary ?
What is required is documented in detail here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project
Have a read, they get back to me if you have questions.
For Pocket PC, Windows and WINE versions, I imagine a directory along
the lines of:
- Readme
- Manual PDF
- Installations EXE for each platform
- Data for various example locations (do we have enough space to
provide a few of these?)
To date we have had installers for windows versions in previous
releases, but it is likely we won't have room for this in the next
release. Also, the windows installers are secondary to the linux version
(which can be run from the DVD).
Documentation requirements are listed here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Documentation
(You can see what it looks like here:
http://live.osgeo.org/overview/overview.html )
Thanks
Scott
OSGeoLive is handed out at GeoSpatial conferences around the world,
and is a very effective marketing tool.
To get involved
* we'd expect you to develop an install bash script which can be run
on ubuntu linux.
* write a one page marketing page
* write a quickstart
* test the installed application
More details here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project
On 21/09/10 08:03, Dave Shorter wrote:
Hi Cam,
We discussed the XCSoar software development which is an open source
software project.
You may wish to contact them and include them in your circle of open
source geeks.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcsoar/
The two names I know who are working actively on this in Australia
are John Wharington and Scott Penrose who I think both live in
Victoria. John Wharington I understand did a lot of this work as
part of his Doctorate in aeronautical engineering.
The finished product is used by a large number of highly competitive
racing pilots – the finished product is highly professional and bug
free. A version of it has been developed specifically for a Swiss
instrument maker as the basic software used in their gliding
instrumentation – navigation, speed-to-fly, rate of climb/sink,
final glide calculation etc etc. I have this instrumentation in my
glider.
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An installed instrument panel with the Altair in a portrait orientation
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Dave Shorter
11 Lighthouse Crescent
Emerald Beach, NSW 2456
email [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Ph 02 6656 1979, Mob 0429 429 539
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