Re: [Live-demo] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Toni,

For universities and education globally , there is definitely big need/demand 
for OSGeo-Live cloud service for easily organising the practical/tutorial 
sessions  . This is only going to increase rapidly as more universities start 
teaching using OSGeo software. Also for those running MOOC programs in 
Geospatial Science, this will be great benefit (esp. for scalability).  Also it 
will be useful  for those running OSGeo workshops/training at events (not just 
FOSS4G events)  etc can make use of this service.

>From Angelos and Peter's mail , there are some good developments and interest 
>that we can follow up. But i would think there might be many others who will 
>be also interested to join efforts. So it is good time to anyone interested to 
>come forward and contribute to joint efforts.

Best wishes,

Suchith



From: Antoni Pérez Navarro [aper...@uoc.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 9:06 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that runs 
the OSGeo-Live VM

Sorry for being so late to the discussion.

Since we are a distance university, for us is very important a cloud service. 
Although OsGeoLive can be downloaded by students, sometimes we preferred to 
prepare the machine by ourselves in order all the students have exactly the 
same.
We tested virtual machines distributed, but they were too heavy for some 
students (we have students in very remote zones). Then we created an Amazon 
virtual machine with some applications of OsGEO Live, but it was worse, since 
it was too slow.

Unfortunately, now our postgraduate is closed and will not be able to test 
these new tools with students.

Toni


Antoni Pérez Navarro
Estudis d'Informàtica, Multimèdia i Telecomunicació
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

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--- Missatge original de Suchith Anand  per a 
live-demo ,"ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org" 
,OSGeo Discussions  
enviat el 18.10.2015 15:41

Thanks Cameron, Angelos, Giuseppe , Peter and everyone who contributed to these 
discussions. I am ccing this to discuss list so that the wider community and 
users who want a cloud service can let their  views known and  how they would 
use and benefit from an OSGeo-Live cloud service.

That way, we will get better idea if  there is need/demand and a sustaining 
community who will step up to keep the project maintained with each OSGeo-Live 
release.

All - please look though the ideas/inputs below that Cameron summarised for 
OSGeo-Live sustainable cloud service based discussions we had so far in 
education and live lists. If you are able to contribute to this , please let us 
all know. Thanks.

Suchith

From: ica-osgeo-labs [ica-osgeo-labs-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of 
Angelos Tzotsos [gcpp.kal...@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 12:01 PM
To: live-demo; ica-osgeo-l...@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that runs 
the OSGeo-Live VM

I realize that my previous e-mail was not received by the list so I summarize:

1. OSGeo-Live is already cloud-ready on Synnefo stack
http://www.synnefo.org/
So basically we could deploy synnefo + geneti on OSGeo infrastructure and have 
a Free Software solution.
Alternatively we could deploy an OpenStack instance.
https://www.openstack.org/software/
We should ask SAC if the above options are feasible.

2. In case we want to deploy OSGeo-Live on AWS, it seems straightforward:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/VMImportPrerequisites.html
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/

Any other options in mind?

Best,
Angelos


On 10/18/2015 01:32 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Bringing a few different email threads back to one, and answering Suchith's 
"next steps" question:

On 16/10/2015 12:43 am, Suchith Anand wrote:
Cameron - from your experiences with OSGeo live community, 

[Live-demo] How to exploit graphic card acceleration running osgeo-live in a virtual machine (for Ossimplanet)

[Margherita Di Leo]

Hi,

I am running OSGeo-Live in a virtual machine. Has it occurred to you that
Ossimplanet has very poor graphic performance because cannot use
acceleration of the graphic card? How to solve this issue? The machine runs
a NVIDIA Quadro K600, in order to exploit it, I installed the drivers from
the NVIDIA web site [1] but does not seem a good idea. Actually the general
appearance of the desktop is OK, but Ossimplanet seems to get stuck - I can
visualize the external frame, I can choose an image from the dropdown menu,
but i cannot see the globe (I see the desktop in transparency through it).
Anyone has gone through similar issues?

Thank you in advance

[1] http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-310.40-driver

-- 
Margherita
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