activityworkshop,
Thank you for the feedback. It does seem like a shame to hear that that
OSGeo-Live DVDs were not marketed to their full potential, especially
since a large proportion of contributors to OSGeo-Live are German
speaking, and there has been a significant effort put into translating
OSGeo-Live documentation into German.
Astrid, it will be good to see a few people help you make this happen at
future events.
activityworkshop,
regarding the packaging of prune, could you please try out the 5.0
version of osgeolive, and if prune should be represented differently,
then raise an issue and work through a fix with us.
On 19/11/2011 10:47 AM, Astrid Emde wrote:
Hello activityworkshop,
thanks for your feedback about OSGeo-Live on Intergeo 2011. It was
definitely a shame that we did not manage to print the new version 5.0 for
Intergeo 2011. We were looking for volunteers to organize the printing but
we did not find someone in the end.
I hope that next year we will provide the DVD on FOSSGIS conference in
Dessau in march 2012 and also on Intergeo 2012. I will try to organize the
print and promote the DVD like I did in 2010 together with Lars.
Best regards Astrid
On Fri, November 18, 2011 8:07 pm, activityworkshop wrote:
I thought I'd give some feedback after a friend of mine picked up a copy
of OSGeoLive from this year's Intergeo conference in Nuremberg, Germany.
Sorry this feedback is a bit late.
- Firstly, it seems that although the OpenSource camp at the conference
was popular, the OSGeoLive DVD didn't have a high visibility. If I hadn't
asked my friend in advance to pick me up a copy, he'd never have known
that there was such a DVD. This contrasts greatly with the 2010
conference which was where I found out about the DVD in the first place -
in 2010 it was well publicised and even without asking, the attendees were
offered the free DVDs to try out. Somehow this wasn't happening at all at
the 2011 conference, which is a shame. - Even when he knew to ask
specifically for the DVD, the people running the stands didn't know about
it, or how to get it. In the end, he had to revisit the area three times
just to find someone who knew where the box of DVDs was. - He brought back
the DVD for me, but it was version 4.5 (from April 2011), not the latest
5.0 which I guess should have been available in
time for the conference (September 2011). That's not a problem that only
the 4.5 DVDs were available, but I'd expect them to make more of an effort
to give them away. Now I guess they've got a pile of 4.5 DVDs which are
now not going to be used.
So I finally got to try out the DVD, and as I'd helped to put Prune on
the DVD, I was eager to try it out. The DVD works great, but from a purely
personal view I was disappointed to see that Prune wasn't obvious in the
menus. According to the contents pages it belongs to the category
"Navigation and maps", but I couldn't find Prune in that menu
(or any of the other category menus), or in any of the category folders
on the desktop. Only by searching through all the other menus did I
finally find it (in Applications -> Education for some reason). Once I'd
found it, it seems to work fine, but I'd appreciate it if Prune's menu
item could be included in the GIS-related folders rather than the more
general-sounding "Education" folder. I don't know if this was fixed with
5.0, because I haven't had a chance
to try it out yet. I'll try and download it to check.
About the Intergeo itself though, I think the promotion of the DVD could
be greatly improved for next year's conference. So much work has gone into
making the DVD useful, that it seems a shame that the ideal target
audience at the Intergeo isn't getting to hear more about it.
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