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

2015-11-11 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Hi Suchith, Thanks for following up on this issue. I propose we organize a joint OSGeo-Live, SAC meeting on IRC. How about: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2015=11=13=21=0=0=26=179=240=137=37 Best, Angelos On 11/10/2015 01:20 PM, Suchith Anand wrote: Hi Angelos,

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

2015-11-11 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Angelos, Thanks for this. We will meet in IRC at the time you suggested to discuss with all interested from OSGeo-Live and SAC. Talk details then. Best wishes, Suchith From: Angelos Tzotsos [gcpp.kal...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015

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

2015-11-11 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Forgot to mention meeting place: #osgeo channel on Freenode. On 11/11/2015 10:02 PM, Suchith Anand wrote: Hi Angelos, Thanks for this. We will meet in IRC at the time you suggested to discuss with all interested from OSGeo-Live and SAC. Talk details then. Best wishes, Suchith

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

2015-11-10 Thread Suchith Anand
btw on a rough estimate i would think there are atleast over 50 hands on workshops each year in various FOSS4G conferences (global, regional, local) plus 100s of geoeducation workshops/ training events globally happening in various universities/training etc which will find this useful. So it

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

2015-11-10 Thread Suchith Anand
Hi Angelos, May i suggest that you goahead and explore the option 1 that you suggested. As you are knowledgeable and have the expertise on this, please lead this and contact SAC to explore ideas/options to move these ideas forward. Thank you again for coming forward and volunteering your time

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

2015-10-19 Thread 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

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

2015-10-18 Thread Suchith Anand
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,

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

2015-10-18 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
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

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

2015-10-14 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
All, We’ve had success locally/regionally with preparing thumb drives with OSGeo-Live. I’m not sure about running everything over the internet in a training scenario, but there may be some good reasons to put some of the services into a dedicated location for online use. The idea of having a

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

2015-10-14 Thread Giuseppe Amatulli
Hi, under the http://www.spatial-ecology.net/ initiative we use the the OSGeo-Llive for courses and intensive training in Geo Computation. In this line we have been used also Amazon Web Service to teach remote connection and scripting routines in the cloud. For this I was customize a Ubuntu

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

2015-10-14 Thread Andy Anderson
On Oct 14, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Peter Baumann wrote: > - the USB drive is getting too small for the stuff to be shown. And we cannot > use bigger sticks as MacOS doesn't eat them (that's what I have been told). If the sticks are formatted as Mac HFS+ drives, there should be

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

2015-10-14 Thread Peter Baumann
(sorry, msg bounced) Hi all, On 2015-10-14 10:44, Suchith Anand wrote: > Sure. I am ccing both the Education community and OSGeo live communities in > this, so we get more ideas/inputs to make this possible. > > To give some background, we now have OSGeo Live being used not only for > running