Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009 to reach those who cannot attend
I tried to answer this mail .. apologize me if it will be a bit confused and for any my mistake. i'm newbie in live-dvd preparation so maybe is possible i'm ignoring something but i hope you can point me on the right direction to follow. Il giorno 01/ago/09, alle ore 13:28, Cameron Shorter ha scritto: Maning, Massimo, Alex, Ravi, Thank you all for your kinds offers of help with the LiveDVD. This is greatly appreciated, will be very valuable, and will also make space for the overly committed FOSS4G local organising committee to focus on the other aspects of the FOSS4G conference. As I see it, this is what needs to be done: 1. Anyone who is interested, please subscribe to the live-dvd email list, where we can continue the rest of this discussion. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo i'm already subscribed to the list, i read the previouse topic and i agree that the main distro to be used must be a debian/debian-based distro. as live-builder system, i'm tring the remastersys tool i find it really complete and works fine on ubuntu and debian but need to be hacked to works on sidux. (the best solution for me is to have a custom script to produce a live.iso from an installed linux-distro based on sidux, i prefer to chose sidux beacouse it has updated packages (it include the debian- gis repository, and beacouse has an updated kernel and some virtualizzation .. is the only distro that works fine on my HW "macbook pro 15'' 2,2 with ati 1600 video card)) The wiki associated with this project is at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Live_DVD and http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc i tried to describe the procedure i'm using to build some gis SW on sidux installing the svn version on the osgeo wiki page (search for gfoss.it in the search tool) I agree with you that for a live projet we need to use the debian-gis however i prefer to have the last version installed from source. (at least for the main app osgeo project) why? : building from source we'll have all the dev-package installed in the live this implies that a live-dvd user can choose to install the live on its hard-drive (install option is handled by remastersys) and having all the dependencies already installed will simplify the life to an user that want update to the latest version for the source- installed gis app (this will guarantee a long life for the live ptroject and avoid intense dependence from repository) obviously is not my intent to build all from source, but only the main osgeo project like : Gdal, Grass, Ossim, Qgis, ...+? 2. We need someone who can continually keep track of the status of the LiveDVD. Determine what it contains, what package versions are on it, how much space is being used, what should and should not be on it etc. This data should be kept up to date in this wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Live_DVD i done a list of apt-get-able packages related to scientiphic and geographics software, icluding python dependencies for qgis plug-in R package to handle spatial data, other sw more or less related to academic/sciantific world 2b. Revise the LiveDVD schedule, and then track to it. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Schedule 3. The LiveDVD needs to be tested, and make sure that the current, and any future packages all work together without impacting each other. Any issues found need to be tracked in the issue tracker. 4. Someone needs to contact all interested parties for the LiveDVD, and encourage them to provide data or software, or configurations, etc for the LiveDVD. This includes: * Workshop and tutorial authors who may want to hand out a DVD at the conference. * OSGeo projects already on the LiveDVD, or who want to get on the DVD * UbuntuGIS, DebianGIS, GISVM, OSGeo4W packaging projects, which have significant synergies with the LiveDVD * And any other people who want to help out. tring variouse live-dvd build i had some different problems on different distro : ubuntu 9.04 : problem to build ossim (mailed the dev list about my issue) some problems with pyQwt (use python 2.5 while the python used as default is 2.6) debian+ubuntu : kernel minor than 2.6.30 has proble to get a working driver on mac laptop using ati video card. again on generic hardware i need to manually install the video driver to enable a full 3d environment Sidux : the driver installed as default works well on mac laptop and the 3d environment work out of box on different hardware whitout need to install additional drivers but the problem is : using remastersys (script dedicated to debian and ubuntu distro) i need to hack the script to figure out a kernel module problems : remastersys try to find a pakage "squashfs-module" that on sidux is included in the kernel .. so remastersys fail to check the module presence (but it exists) to figure out this problem i commented out the re
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009 to reach those who cannot attend
Maning, Massimo, Alex, Ravi, Thank you all for your kinds offers of help with the LiveDVD. This is greatly appreciated, will be very valuable, and will also make space for the overly committed FOSS4G local organising committee to focus on the other aspects of the FOSS4G conference. As I see it, this is what needs to be done: 1. Anyone who is interested, please subscribe to the live-dvd email list, where we can continue the rest of this discussion. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo The wiki associated with this project is at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Live_DVD and http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc 2. We need someone who can continually keep track of the status of the LiveDVD. Determine what it contains, what package versions are on it, how much space is being used, what should and should not be on it etc. This data should be kept up to date in this wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Live_DVD 2b. Revise the LiveDVD schedule, and then track to it. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Schedule 3. The LiveDVD needs to be tested, and make sure that the current, and any future packages all work together without impacting each other. Any issues found need to be tracked in the issue tracker. 4. Someone needs to contact all interested parties for the LiveDVD, and encourage them to provide data or software, or configurations, etc for the LiveDVD. This includes: * Workshop and tutorial authors who may want to hand out a DVD at the conference. * OSGeo projects already on the LiveDVD, or who want to get on the DVD * UbuntuGIS, DebianGIS, GISVM, OSGeo4W packaging projects, which have significant synergies with the LiveDVD * And any other people who want to help out. 5. Add what ever new packages, linux software, windows installers, etc to the LiveDVD. This is the technical grunt work. Note that the packaging projects like DebianGIS and UbuntuGIS are quite robust, and have been very helpful in getting new people started with packaging, and many of these people are also on the LiveDVD email list. Welcome aboard. I suggest that any volunteers join the live-demo email list, and respond to this email suggesting how you might want to help. Cameron Shorter, FOSS4G chair. Ravi wrote: Hi, volunteer: Happy to note a good discussion. I can help in seeing the draft of workshops/Labs that deal with Vector-GIS and GIS that focuses on Geoscience. Can help in advising where necessary, to tune the material such that those multitudes not attending the event can equally use the material with ease. Cheers Ravi Kumar --- On Fri, 31/7/09, Alex Borrell wrote: From: Alex Borrell Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G2009 to reach those who cannot attend To: "OSGeo Discussions" Cc: "Cameron Shorter" Date: Friday, 31 July, 2009, 8:12 PM On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Massimo Di Stefano wrote: Hi All, I'm working on a live dvd project based on GIS software, i'm avaiable for any help on the dvd creation. let me know. ciao, Massimo. Il giorno 31/lug/09, alle ore 11:11, Cameron Shorter ha scritto: Hi Ravi, Yes, you are so right, we do need to collect as much of the material from the FOSS4G conference as we can. One way we hope to facilitate this has been to give every attendee a LiveDVD which can be populated with all the material from the workshops. This means that if workshop presenters can get their data onto the DVD, then they know all attendees will receive it. So we have budget for the LiveDVD. We have an old version of the LiveDVD (based on FOSS4G 2008). What we need to continue through to completion is to have someone who will coordinate the compiling of the DVD. This is primarily a project management role, keeping track of what is on the DVD and what should be on it, contacting workshop authors, and project leads and helping them get their projects onto the DVD etc. Sound like you? It would be an incredibly valuable contribution to FOSS4G and the greater OSGeo community at large. Jody Garnett wrote: These are all kind thoughts. Would you consider volunteering to help put together the conference live DVD? You can see an example from FOSS4G2008 etc... Jody On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM, wrote: Hi All, FOSS4G every year is a keenly followed event. Many await the publication of material on the website eagerly such that they can follow labs, workshops and presentations of choice. So the present organisers may please request those especially conducting labs/workshops to keep in mind the multitudes who browse them through the internet can have equal benefit. This can be achieved my keeping on the internet for download 1. All the binaries that are required for the exercise 2. All the data that are required for the exercise 3. All the printed material provided for the exercise 4. All the other material provided to the attendees, CD or DVD etc I agree that most of it is done each time, exc
