Suchith, Geoforall community,
What I think OSGeo-Live and Geoforall is missing, and would really
benefit from, is having a self motivated individual (or 2) from the
Geoforall community step forward and offer to coordinate USE of OSGeo-Live.
OSGeo-Live already has very competent technical people who create the
OSGeo-Live distribution. There are also numerous individuals pulling
together workshops and courses which reference OSGeo-Live. What is
missing is someone to put in the time to rally all the OSGeo-Live users
together. Someone to reach out to workshop teams and coordinate
aggregating workshop material into a common repository (or similar). One
way to start this would be for someone to start with one workshop and
then draw in others. Alternatively, start by reviewing and improving
quickstarts.
It is a non-trivial task, but would be hugely valuable to both Geoforall
and OSGeo-Live if someone was to step up and commit to it long term.
If you are reading this, and think you, or someone you know, might be up
to the task, then do speak up.
Warm regards, Cameron
On 12/07/2016 3:25 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
Also a simple idea to get more volunteers for the documentation,
translation is that each lab send a personalised message to thier
students introducing OSGeo live and welcoming volunteers for
documentation extention, translators etc.
Cameron - if you can send a draft mail for this (highlighting key
projects that need this urgently) and we will get all our lab
coordinators to send this out through thier university/department
networks. Thanks.
Suchith
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*From:* GeoForAll [[email protected]] on behalf of
Suchith Anand [[email protected]]
*Sent:* 12 July 2016 6:12 AM
*To:* Cameron Shorter; Marc VLOEMANS
*Cc:* [email protected]; live-demo
*Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] Geo4All branding on OSGeo-Live?
Hi Cameron,
Thanks for the info. This is a good idea to involve Geo4All labs in
the testing aspects. We have a good network of real multi disciplinary
users who are experts in thier respective fields as well as at
different levels (from professors to students), so an ideal mix to
test and provide feedbacks.
Good idea to include a brief description of OSGeo to the OSGeo-Live
home page. If you could mention Geo4All and provide a link it will be
great .
Geo4All community - Please provide your feedbacks, inputs on this
suggestion. May be this is also the time to get one of the labs
volunteer for "Software of the month" section that we are planning for
the Geo4All monthly newsletter highlighting one of 50+ OSGeolive
projects each month. Any labs willing to volunteer for this, please
let me or Nikos know. It will be greatly appreciated.
All ideas welcome.
Best wishes,
Suchith
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*From:* Cameron Shorter [[email protected]]
*Sent:* 12 July 2016 2:40 AM
*To:* Suchith Anand; Marc VLOEMANS
*Cc:* live-demo; [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Geo4All branding on OSGeo-Live?
Hi Suchith,
It is great to see such uptake of OSGeo-Live from the Geo4All
community, and you are right, there is potential for cross advertising
between projects.
We discussed this and your request in our OSGeo-Live weekly meeting today.
One of our weaknesses in the OSGeo-Live team is our ability to
continuously keep the project maintained, current, and TESTED. Testing
is something that the Geo4All community could help us with, because as
users you are the experts we need feedback from users to confirm
projects work as expected.
To date, OSGeo-Live has added logos to our webpages for organisations
and communities who have contributed something tangible (and usually
sustained) toward OSGeo-Live development. If the Geo4All could
coordinate something similar, (maybe in the form of sustained testing
resources, or extensions to documentation), then it would be
appropriate to add a Geo4All logo to OSGeo-Live.
That said, we do think it would make sense to include a brief (one or
two sentence) description of OSGeo to the OSGeo-Live home page. This
might include a mention of Geo4All.
Warm regards, Cameron
On 11/07/2016 3:48 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
Hi Marc, all,
Our colleagues at Geo4All (the official OSGeo's Education outreach)
are actively promoting OSGeoLiveDVDs to esp. those who are new to
learn and then switch over to OSGeo. Our focus is reaching out to new
communities and it will be really helpful if you can arrange OSGeo
Live DVDs to be handed out at the FOSS4G and other events . If you
can have Geo4All logo added to the LiveDVDs it will be very helpful.
Could someone help us with adding the Geo4All logo and url to the
OSGeoLive DVDs. Many thanks.
Best wishes,
Suchith
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