Peter,
This is a very kind and generous offer.
But I don't want to hold you to such an offer until you understand the
full cost that moving from a DVD to USB distribution would entail.
OSGeo-Live use has been increasing exponentially over the last 4 years,
and was handed out at ~ 20 events in 2012 (not just the international
FOSS4G).
If sponsor(s) were to subsidise OSGeo-Live USBs, we would need to ensure
that such subsidies were available for all expected print runs for the
next few years. I think this requirement might be a bit more than you
were anticipating when considering this offer below?
That aside, as mentioned in our chat, I still see a need for a mini
version of OSGeo-Live for the next couple of years at least.
On 11/01/13 08:57, Peter Baumann wrote:
So making the offer official :) - rasdaman can gladly sponsor the
price difference between 4 and 8 GB for the 500+ sticks needed for
FOSS4G.
-Peter
On 01/10/2013 10:53 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
Another thing that was brought up was the possibility to use 8GB USB
drives for FOSS4G, which would mean that the mini iso could go up to
4.4G to fit on the DVD and the full iso (with the installers) would
fit on the USB drive.
Can this extra cost be covered somehow?
Thoughts?
On 01/10/2013 11:47 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
Hi Peter and thanks for bringing this topic here.
It would be great to have more data space and perhaps we can save
some space if we track which projects use non common data-sets.
From the IRC discussion there was a thought to include a
hyperspectral dataset so that rasdaman, OTB, OSSIM, EOxServer and
GRASS to use in common. Any thoughts on that? Should we play safe
with free MODIS dataset or is there another suggestion? Would it be
ok if we limit this to ~50MB size or would we need more? I know this
is not enough for a good remote sensing dataset, but we are short on
disk space currently.
I liked the idea of using some web services for demo purposes in
addition to data included in the disk as long as there is a notice
to the user that those are available only with internet connection.
About projects mentioned:
MapGuide is actually not included in the disk due to that large
footprint (caused by mono dependency).
Marble in large because its dependencies for Qt bring in large parts
of the KDE libraries.
We definitely need to hear more from the projects on this!
Best,
Angelos
Hi listers,
as space is running short on the ISO we need to reconsider sizings.
In today's OSGel Live chat I was tasked to initiate this
discussion. Current disk footprint of each application is available
from
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc#gid=13
Top riders currently:
- mapguide: 550mb
- marble: 300 mb (includes disk caching!)
- grass >250mb
One way of saving space is to enlarge it (ie, go to 8 GB) which is
unclear due to some unresolved questions; another one is to deflate
unused datasets, a third one to share data among applications.
Can I ask all those with 3-digit disk hunger to chime into this
discussion.
thanks,
Peter
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