Hi Jake,
It is very inspiring to hear stories such as yours, and hear that our
work on OSGeo-Live is being used and is making a difference.
I heard hints from your email that you might be interested in helping
with OSGeo-Live?
If so, there are a number of areas where a volunteer such as yourself
could make a big difference. For instance:
* We are aware that we have variable quality in many of our quickstarts.
It would be good to have someone critically review quickstarts and
suggest improvements, update and/or create screenshots, and/or improve
writing.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Review
* If you are more technically interested, we are really keen to package
all projects into debian files and meta-projects, which would enable
OSGeo-Live projects to more easily be incorporated into Ubuntu based
systems.
On 22/11/2013 2:19 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
Jake,
Thanks for sharing!
I'm forwarding to the Osgeo live mailinglist.
Johan
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jake Joel <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:10 PM
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Live
To: [email protected]
Hello All,
I’m a graduate student in the South Dakota State University Image
Processing Lab, studying Electrical Engineering and Remote Sensing. I
wanted to introduce myself to the group, and say I really appreciate
all of your contributions to the open-source geospatial community. The
numerous apps that are available through the foundation have helped me
greatly in the past few months, and I don’t think I could have done
the analysis I wanted to without your help. Big Thank You!
Secondly, I am very interested in helping the cause and contributing
in any way that I can. I am not quite at the level where I think I
could actually develop any software, but I have convinced my research
lab to start using the OSGeo Live 7.0 distribution in a VM ware, with
the hopes of getting rid of Windows & Matlab altogether. With that, we
have found some strange bugs when trying to update everything to the
latest & greatest; we eventually found it had something to do with
both the zygrib & otb dependencies. One of my colleges seems to have
found a work around, so I thought I would share:
sudo sed -i -e 's_.*_#&_' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zygrib.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo dpkg -i --force-all
/var/cache/apt/archives/otb-bin_3.20.0-0ppa~precise1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-all
/var/cache/apt/archives/libotb3.20_3.20.0-0ppa~precise1_i386.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo reboot now
By issuing these commands, it seems we can update the system. Without
some of these terms, eventually our VM always crashes due to
conflicting dependencies from the PPA repo. We thought we should let
you know, as our first ‘contribution’ to the cause. My apologies that
it really doesn’t fix anything, but it might be a good conversation
starter!
We’ll keep an eye out for places we can help.
Looking forward to participating in the open-source revolution.
:-)
Thanks,
Jake Brinkmann
GRA, Image Processing Laboratory
South Dakota State University
[email protected]
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