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, what do you think is
the best way now forward ? Can you please summarise all discussions so far and
reply to the public lists.Thanks.
Suchith
If we are to be successful at setting up an OSGeo-Live sustainable cloud
service, I suggest we consider:
1. Would a cloud service be used? By who?
I'd suggest that people who want a cloud service speak up, say how you
would use an OSGeo-Live cloud service. We are looking here to determine
if there is a sustaining community who will step up to keep the project
maintained with each OSGeo-Live release.
2. What are the steps technically required to set up the cloud service?
Hopefully someone will step up to do the research on what is required,
and will set up a Proof-of-Concept.
3. What will hosting a cloud service cost? Would it be a pay-as-you-use
model? Would we be asking the OSGeo Foundation to sponsor? Would we be
asking workshop providers to pay for the service?
I suspect that we could ask the OSGeo Foundation for base funding to
prove a Proof of Concept (by paying for a cloud service for 1 year or
so), but ask workshop providers and other users to pay for the service
in moving forward.
This is something that can be decided once costs are understood.
4. But the bottom line is that the best chance of success will occur if
someone stands up and champions its development. Do we have someone
interested to do the hard work of making it happen? (Speak up if
interested). It certainly would be a valuable contribution to the OSGeo
community.
Warm regards, Cameron
On 14/10/2015 7:59 pm, Peter Baumann wrote:
> 1.Do you think it is important to have a cloud service that runs the
OSGeo-Live VM
not necessarily a cloud, as the whole OSGeo Live is not prepared.
But definitely hosting it on a VM (for easy cloning + move) is an asset - any
demo just needs to show a URL then.
>
> 2.What are the steps that we need to take to make this possible
find a caretaker with a machine.
Jacobs University can do that, for example, in tight collaboration with Angelos
on technical level.
-Peter
On 15/10/2015 2:53 am, Giuseppe Amatulli wrote:
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 Instance very similar to the OSGeo-Llive.
Nonetheless, would be grate to have the OSGeo-Llive directly hosted
in AWS to allow teach but also to provide to the course participants
something that they can use after the course.
The AWS Educate <https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/> provide
grants for education so maybe an official cooperation OSGeo&AWS can be
a solution to host for free a OSGeo-Llive Instance
Best Regards
Giuseppe
On 10/13/2015 05:57 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>
>Myself, Maria and Peter are now at ESA event and had a chance to catch up on
ideas for future to expand education globally.
>
>
>I also remembered that few months back, we had an initial discussion on the
importance of having a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM to help running
workshops at conferences, training events etc. Venka made this idea in one of the
Geo4All AB discussions on workshops at FOSS4G Bonn that i copy below
>
>
>"Instead of buying 80-100 computers, it could be a worth considering to pay for a
cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM. Maybe one of our sponsoring companies could be
approached to deploy such OSGeo Software as a Service solution.Such service could be made
available to any event/institution wishing to run their own workshops anywhere place on
earth with a good internet connection and thin client. For subsequent events or users could
be charged to cover cost of cloud hosting and paying for some developers to maintain the
system.If the experiment is successful, we can think of replicating it in our globally
through our local chapters."
>
>
>Me, Maria and Peter in our discussions today, thought it is good time to start
doing something about this and have this for scaling up our education and training
needs globally. So it will be good to get ideas from key people, so i request you
all to give your thoughts/ideas.
>
>
>1.Do you think it is important to have a cloud service that runs the
OSGeo-Live VM.
>
>2.What are the steps that we need to take to make this possible
>
>Looking forward to your inputs.
>
>Suchith
>
>
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