Thanks Cameron and all.
Also for OSGIS 2012, we are running a workshop on 4th September foccused on
the Educational use of OSGeo Live , which aims to review the current state of
how OSGeo and other free geospatial software and datasets are used in
Universities, mainly in educational contexts, and discuss how the software
could be better made advantage of especially by using the OSGeo Live. The
workshop consists of invited talks and presentations selected from this call as
well as of panel discussions, breakout sessions and other methods of
collaboration.
Workshop topics are below:
* OSGeo and other free geospatial software in Universities
* Educational materials that use free geospatial software
* Packaging software and other digital materials for Ubuntu
* Experiences in delivering education using free geospatial software
* Experiences in packaging educational materials for geospatial
* Experiences in using OSGeo Live in Universities
* Experiences in using OSGeo Edu and other initiatives (OLPC, RPi etc) in
Schools
Please submit a short abstract of your presentation (max 300 words) before July
31, 2012 to ari.jo...@aalto.fimailto:ari.jo...@aalto.fi
Details at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx
A further aim of the workshop is to initiate a network of people skilled in the
technology behind the OSGeo Live system and coordinate resources of OSGeo
education and curriculum community for this purpose. We are looking forward to
strong participation from the Educational and OSGeo Live DVD community for this.
Best wishes,
Suchith
From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 July 2012 00:22
To: Angelos Tzotsos
Cc: live-d...@lists.osgeo.org; Suchith Anand; Ari Jolma; Angelos Tzotsos; OSGeo
Discussions
Subject: Re: We think we can release OSGeoLive 6.0 two weeks early (For OSGIS)
- with some help
As per email below,
We'd really like to bring our OSGeo-Live release schedule forward 2 weeks so
that we will have a shiny new OSGeo-Live 6.0 ready for OSGIS and the Asian
Geospatial Forum this September.
To achieve this, we will need to knock over all our critical bugs, and most
major bugs within the next 7 days. Based on our current progress, and if we can
get a little help (especially from projects with bugs), then we should be able
to make this. As per Angelos's comment below, we will make a call on moving
the schedule in one week from today.
Please contact us via email or on irc://freenode.net#osgeolive if you are in a
position to help, especially if you involved with one of the applications with
a major/critical bug.
I propose to be meeting tomorrow, and probably daily afterwards on IRC to check
on status:
irc://freenode.net#osgeolive
Timeslot:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2012month=7day=18hour=20min=30sec=0p1=264p2=240p3=215p4=179p5=224
Wellingtonhttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=264 (New Zealand)
Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 8:30:00 AM
NZSThttp://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/pacific/nzst.html
UTC+12 hours
Sydneyhttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=240 (Australia - New
South Wales)
Thursday, 19 July 2012 at 6:30:00 AM
ESThttp://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/au/est.html
UTC+10 hours
Romehttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=215 (Italy)
Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 10:30:00 PM
CESThttp://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/eu/cest.html
UTC+2 hours
New Yorkhttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179 (U.S.A. - New
York)
Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 4:30:00 PM
EDThttp://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/edt.html
UTC-4 hours
San Franciscohttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=224 (U.S.A. -
California)
Wednesday, 18 July 2012 at 1:30:00 PM
PDThttp://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/pdt.html
UTC-7 hours
And lastly, a big thankyou goes out to the people who have been working in the
background on OSGeoLive over the last few months making it as stable as it is -
especially Angelos who has been leading the build efforts and testing
applications.
On 18/07/2012 8:07 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
Hi,
First of all, it would be great to have version 6.0 out sooner in order to
support OSGIS.
Lets have a look at our status:
Right now we are in pretty good shape considering the openjdk7 transition.
Moving 2 weeks back could mean that we might lose a couple of applications that
perhaps won't be able to catch up with the new schedule.
As per http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10 we have 5 critical tickets and 5
major ones.
Our basic problems to hit RC status are: geonetwork issue, docs not building,
udig with custom JRE, mapfish, osm apps.
During this last week we had a very good run and fixed some issues. If we keep
up this pace we can make this new target.
We will definitely need to bring in help from the above projects to speed
things up.
