[OSGeo-Discuss] Webinar on Capacity Development - "Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" - on April 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

2017-04-18 Thread Suchith Anand 
Reminder of tommorow's Webinar on "Publishing open data from an organisational 
point of view"


http://www.godan.info/events/webinar-publishing-open-data-organisational-point-view


All are welcome.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Anand Suchith
Sent: 13 April 2017 10:59 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX); geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GODAN Action: Webinar on Capacity Development - 
"Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" - on April 20, 2017 
at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

Hi Patrick,


Important points and i dont know the answers on exact data needs for different 
aspects but i am sure by using the collective wisdom of all we will be able to 
find meaningful solutions to Zero Hunger . For example, i am inspired by the 
work that Trilogis (Italy) did for the NASA Europa Challenge in 2014 [1] where 
they developed an innovative application [2] is to help FAO  providing support 
to national locust operators in Africa and Middle East. Desert locusts are a 
huge problem for the population and due to their ability to change their 
behaviours and habits  have big effect for those depending on  agriculture in 
the affected areas. I understand that this application that they developed  is 
now being used by FAO field staff  which is an excellent practical outcome. 
Reducing food wastage is an important aspect (from pests to distribution). 
Though the problem is huge ,every drop in the ocean counts


This was the inspiration behind launching the "GODAN Local Farming challenge 
2017 – Bringing geoinnovation  for solving Zero Hunger" . I hope students and 
SMEs will take up the challenge to create innovative ideas that will help 
tackle the solutions of local farming in growing cities, using some aspect of 
the OpenCitySmart Design and uses NASA’s open source virtual globe technology, 
WebWorldWind. Ideas may include ways for optimally linking local farming 
communities directly with potential customers, tools for visualising 
spatio-temporal aspects of local farming, tools for helping reducing wastage 
(for example linking with local food banks), and any number of solutions for 
helping our goal of Zero Hunger.


So i request students and GIS SMEs worldwide to contribute to bringing 
geoinnovation  for solving Zero Hunger by starting to participate in the Europa 
Local farming Challenge 2017 [3] and make use of open data (from weather data 
to satellite data).

Best wishes,

Suchith




[1] http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/projects2014


[2] http://www.trilogis.it/eLocust3D/


[3] http://www.godan.info/news/godan-nasa-europa-student-challenge-announcement


From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
Sent: 13 April 2017 9:48 PM
To: Anand Suchith; geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] GODAN Action: Webinar on Capacity Development - 
"Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" - on April 20, 2017 
at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

Suchith,

An age old problem, a terrifying imbalance between haves and have-nots with 
children ending up paying the dearest price. Our ^moral^ imperative whether 
Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Jew is the same golden rule around the world, 
yet reality has corrupted circumstance to be the exact opposite, the 
banana-grabbing chimp-mentality promotes profit over parity. So apparently we 
do not take ourselves very seriously.

Diminishing agricultural resources, especially given the global shift in our 
hydrologic system, particularly in areas already on the edge of subsistence, 
leads to increasing conflict. When there is less to fight over, the fight 
intensifies, further exacerbating the proverbial 'circle of life.'

GODAN sure has it right idea, Global Open Data is the essential key for 
enhancing Agriculture and Nutrition. I listened to the presentation, but there 
still seems some initial targets yet to be defined.

I am not sure if these are the right questions, but we need to ask specifically 
for what data we want:
Have we identified the data types needed?
Possible sources from the current satellite resources?
(i.e., vegetation, then of course weather: current, medium and long range 
projections)
Web apps to leverage that data based on highly localized areas to directly 
serve individual farmers.
Data storage for upload of small local data, let the farmers contribute (via 
cell phone).
Maybe a GODAN Forum where farmers could ask each other questions about 
practices, pests or other.

-Patrick

From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith 
Anand
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] GODAN Action: Webinar on Capacity Development - 
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at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

Dear Colleagues,

Currently,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Cameron Shorter 

Hi James, others,

Yes, please do share any tips, tricks and tools you have worked out re 
USB creation (and other tips) in our wiki. A starting point for 
collecting USB ideas is here:


https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB

And if you have ideas which are "production ready", we should include 
them in our main OSGeo-Live Quickstart:

https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/usb_quickstart.html

Thanks,
Cameron

On 19/4/17 1:02 am, James Klassen wrote:
Not sure if it is useful to others but I wrote a program [1] to help 
me when Bob wants a bunch of OSGeo-Live thumb drives created.  It 
isn't by any means perfect or 100% foolproof but it sure makes the job 
quicker for me.


It takes an image and waits for USBs of the same size to be inserted, 
then copys the difference between the image and the drive (this is 
quicker as reads are much faster than writes on the thumb drives I 
have seen).  It handles multiple thumb drives at a time, so after 
starting it, it is just down to changing out drives for new ones as 
they finish copying.


I make the image running OSGeo Live in KVM and let it build a virtual 
USB at the size of the drives I have on hand.  It can help to have the 
image on a tmpfs to avoid the source being a bottleneck.


[1] https://github.com/klassenjs/copy_usb 




On Apr 18, 2017 9:49 AM, "Suchith Anand" 
> wrote:


OSGeo Live is one of the excellent success stories of OSGeo and it
is important as a community we need to pool our ideas/resources
for not only keeping building upon this but expanding for the
future. Hence i put this in the wider lists to stimulate ideas.
For example at the recent RDA meetings in Barcelona , i started
pushing for getting sponsors to fund dedicate staff time for OSGeo
Live educational materials for UN and other training/capacity
development needs  [1] and i will keep pushing this through all my
contacts .


The ideas put by Brian are excellent for the industry/SME
ecosystem of OSGeo to start exploring and expanding. For example
Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo. Time for online version of QGIS
has come (it will be better than Arcgisonline or other properitery
ones). QGISOnline will be a true open platform .

Suchith


[1]
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-March/012009.html




From: Live-demo > on behalf of Bas
Couwenberg >
Sent: 18 April 2017 3:19 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions; live-demo
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any
SMEs providing this ?

On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
> Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat, an idea to
consider
> on this . . . what about . . .
>
> having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in place for
> providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different devices and
> (portable) services.  For example,
>
>
>   *   Generating the Thumb Drives
>  *   These should be generated as needed, based on our usage
> locally for different events.  When we don’t end up using some
of them
> at a particular event, we end up re-writing them with the newer
> version of OSGeo-Live for the next event.  Not really an
economically
> sound model.
>   *   Setting up something like a Raspberry Pi with OSGeo-Live.
> Possibly for resale, certainly as a download for other to install.
>   *   Setting up a Cloud (OSGE Certified?!) version of OSGe-Live
>   *   As has been mentioned before, an application picker for
> installation of software would go a long ways.
>  *   There’s a bit of effort required for this one I’ll
grant you,
> but it would certainly go along was toward promoting OSGeo.
>   *   Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo.
>   *   Setting up a Docker . . .
>
> Well you get the idea,  if your going to pay for something, may as
> well go for broke.  You end up with a one stop shop and possibly a
> container of sorts for other projects to add in their own dedicated
> versions of the same sort of devices/services.

Are you volunteering to implement any of the above?

These are good suggestions, but without people to do the work it will
never materialize.

OSGeo-Live is understaffed as it is, see also:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-April/012031.html



Kind Regards,

Bas
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[OSGeo-Discuss] R: [Geo4All] OpenLitterMap now online

2017-04-18 Thread Maria Antonia Brovelli 
Wow! Excellent! I'll share with my students, colleagues and friends!
Maria



Inviato dal mio dispositivo Samsung


 Messaggio originale 
Da: "Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)" 
Data: 18/04/17 19:34 (GMT+01:00)
A: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org, discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [Geo4All] OpenLitterMap now online

This is brilliant work! And so dearly needed!

-Original Message-
From: Seán Lynch 
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 8:01 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (NASA)
Subject: OpenLitterMap now online

Dear Patrick,

You might remember we spoke at the FOSS4G event in Como some time ago.

I thought I'd let you now that 
www.OpenLitterMap.com is now online.

Happy mapping,
Kind regards-
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OpenLitterMap now online

2017-04-18 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA 
I agree!

Sergio Acosta y Lara
Departamento de Geomática
Dirección Nacional de Topografía
Ministerio de Transporte y Obras Públicas
URUGUAY
(598)29157933 ints. 20329/20330
http://geoportal.mtop.gub.uy/


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(ARC-PX) 
Enviado: martes, 18 de abril de 2017 14:33
Para: geofor...@lists.osgeo.org; discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Asunto: [Geo4All] OpenLitterMap now online

This is brilliant work! And so dearly needed!

-Original Message-
From: Seán Lynch 
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 8:01 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (NASA)
Subject: OpenLitterMap now online

Dear Patrick,

You might remember we spoke at the FOSS4G event in Como some time ago.

I thought I'd let you now that www.OpenLitterMap.com is now online.

Happy mapping,
Kind regards-
Seán
--
M.Sc. Coastal & Marine Environments (NUIG, 2015)
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[OSGeo-Discuss] OpenLitterMap now online

2017-04-18 Thread Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) 
This is brilliant work! And so dearly needed!

-Original Message-
From: Seán Lynch 
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 8:01 AM
To: Hogan, Patrick (NASA)
Subject: OpenLitterMap now online

Dear Patrick,

You might remember we spoke at the FOSS4G event in Como some time ago.

I thought I'd let you now that www.OpenLitterMap.com is now online.

Happy mapping,
Kind regards-
Seán
-- 
M.Sc. Coastal & Marine Environments (NUIG, 2015)
M.Sc. GIS & Remote Sensing (UCC, 2014)
B.A. Geography & Economics (UCC, 2011)
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reducing scope of OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release

2017-04-18 Thread Suchith Anand 
From a education/training  perspective i think lowering the release frequency 
of OSGeo Live to a yearly base will be helpful esp. if we are  planning to 
build educational materials to link OSGeo Live for the future. I am ccing 
GeoforAll lists as well as there might be other views/opinions.

Best wishes,

Suchith


From: Discuss  on behalf of Gert-Jan van der 
Weijden (OSGeo.nl) 
Sent: 18 April 2017 4:39 PM
To: Astrid Emde (OSGeo); Discuss
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reducing scope of OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release

Hi OSGeo-Live team and others,


1. Frequency
In order to reduce the workload one might consider to lower the release
frequency to a yearly base.
(In which case I'd also suggest to name the version after their year of
release: "OSGeo Live 2017" etc..)
For my purposes it doesn't add much value to have a new version every 6
months.


2. In/exclude projects
Given the fact that OSGeo Live serves as an introduction, I think the
libraries are far less important to include.



Kind regards,

Gert-Jan





Astrid Emde (OSGeo) schreef op 17-04-2017 23:40:
> Reducing scope of OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release
>
> 18 April 2017
>
> For our next OSGeo-Live release, 11.0, we propose to reduce the number
> of packages included, and only support a 64 bit distribution, (32 bit
> will be built but not tested or officially supported).
>
> Factors leading to this suggestion include:
> 1. Some projects have dwindling communities and momentum.
> 2. Increased OSGeo-Live scope has increased our core maintenance and
> testing.
> 3. Reduced engagement from projects (partly due to less core time
> spent reaching out to projects)
> 4. Missing our first release milestone in 9 years.
>
> From our options of reduce quality, become more efficient, increase
> volunteer engagement, find a sponsor to support core activities, and
> reduce scope, reducing scope is our most viable and acceptable option.
> Other ideas are welcomed.
>
> Questions we will ask in assessing which projects to keep include:
> 1. Is there an ACTIVE OSGeo-Live liaison person/people for the
> project? Prior list is copied to "Contact" column at:
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q5BaEgQtgw4O1bXyeWMlM8XtAOhUgcjZ7Y2O0FZc2H0/edit?hl=en_GB#gid=2014800150
> 2. Has the Project Overview and Quickstart been reviewed and are they
> current and complete?
> 3. Do OpenHub metrics reflect an active and healthy community:
> https://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html
> 4. Is the project being updated on OSGeo-Live with each release?
>
>
> Key Milestones
> ---
>  5-Jun-2017   OSGeo-Live Feature Freeze (final application versions
> installed)
> 19-Jun-2017   OSGeo-Live delivered to UAT (final application versions
> installed - Beta stage)
> 24-Jul-2017   OSGeo-Live Final ISO
> 14-Aug-2017 FOSS4G 2017 Boston
>
> full schedule:
> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE=en_GB
>
> About OSGeo-Live
> 
> OSGeo-Live (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu (http://lubuntu.net)
> based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a
> Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a
> wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing
> anything.
>
>
> Greetings from th OSGeo-Live Team!
>
> --
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Reducing scope of OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release

2017-04-18 Thread Gert-Jan van der Weijden (OSGeo.nl) 

Hi OSGeo-Live team and others,


1. Frequency
In order to reduce the workload one might consider to lower the release 
frequency to a yearly base.
(In which case I'd also suggest to name the version after their year of 
release: "OSGeo Live 2017" etc..)
For my purposes it doesn't add much value to have a new version every 6 
months.



2. In/exclude projects
Given the fact that OSGeo Live serves as an introduction, I think the 
libraries are far less important to include.




Kind regards,

Gert-Jan





Astrid Emde (OSGeo) schreef op 17-04-2017 23:40:

Reducing scope of OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release

18 April 2017

For our next OSGeo-Live release, 11.0, we propose to reduce the number
of packages included, and only support a 64 bit distribution, (32 bit
will be built but not tested or officially supported).

Factors leading to this suggestion include:
1. Some projects have dwindling communities and momentum.
2. Increased OSGeo-Live scope has increased our core maintenance and 
testing.

3. Reduced engagement from projects (partly due to less core time
spent reaching out to projects)
4. Missing our first release milestone in 9 years.

From our options of reduce quality, become more efficient, increase
volunteer engagement, find a sponsor to support core activities, and
reduce scope, reducing scope is our most viable and acceptable option.
Other ideas are welcomed.

Questions we will ask in assessing which projects to keep include:
1. Is there an ACTIVE OSGeo-Live liaison person/people for the
project? Prior list is copied to "Contact" column at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q5BaEgQtgw4O1bXyeWMlM8XtAOhUgcjZ7Y2O0FZc2H0/edit?hl=en_GB#gid=2014800150
2. Has the Project Overview and Quickstart been reviewed and are they
current and complete?
3. Do OpenHub metrics reflect an active and healthy community:
https://live.osgeo.org/en/metrics.html
4. Is the project being updated on OSGeo-Live with each release?


Key Milestones
---
 5-Jun-2017	OSGeo-Live Feature Freeze (final application versions 
installed)

19-Jun-2017 OSGeo-Live delivered to UAT (final application versions
installed - Beta stage)
24-Jul-2017 OSGeo-Live Final ISO
14-Aug-2017 FOSS4G 2017 Boston

full schedule:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE=en_GB

About OSGeo-Live

OSGeo-Live (http://live.osgeo.org) is a Lubuntu (http://lubuntu.net)
based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a
Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a
wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing
anything.


Greetings from th OSGeo-Live Team!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] QGIS Loads Black Screen For PostGIS Out-Db Raster Data

2017-04-18 Thread Osahon Oduware 
Hi All,

I have an out-db raster on PostGIS which I tried to load in QGIS (v
2.14.12-Essen) utilizing the DB Manager to establish a connection. I could
view the raster table, but when I try to "Add to canvas" it displays a
black (blank) image instead of the raster image.

I would be glad if someone could help me to resolve this.
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread James Klassen 
Not sure if it is useful to others but I wrote a program [1] to help me
when Bob wants a bunch of OSGeo-Live thumb drives created.  It isn't by any
means perfect or 100% foolproof but it sure makes the job quicker for me.

It takes an image and waits for USBs of the same size to be inserted, then
copys the difference between the image and the drive (this is quicker as
reads are much faster than writes on the thumb drives I have seen).  It
handles multiple thumb drives at a time, so after starting it, it is just
down to changing out drives for new ones as they finish copying.

I make the image running OSGeo Live in KVM and let it build a virtual USB
at the size of the drives I have on hand.  It can help to have the image on
a tmpfs to avoid the source being a bottleneck.

[1] https://github.com/klassenjs/copy_usb


On Apr 18, 2017 9:49 AM, "Suchith Anand" 
wrote:

> OSGeo Live is one of the excellent success stories of OSGeo and it is
> important as a community we need to pool our ideas/resources for not only
> keeping building upon this but expanding for the future. Hence i put this
> in the wider lists to stimulate ideas. For example at the recent RDA
> meetings in Barcelona , i started pushing for getting sponsors to fund
> dedicate staff time for OSGeo Live educational materials for UN and other
> training/capacity development needs  [1] and i will keep pushing this
> through all my contacts .
>
> The ideas put by Brian are excellent for the industry/SME ecosystem of
> OSGeo to start exploring and expanding. For example Cloud service(s)
> version of OSGeo. Time for online version of QGIS has come (it will be
> better than Arcgisonline or other properitery ones). QGISOnline will be a
> true open platform .
>
> Suchith
>
>
> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-March/012009.html
>
> 
> From: Live-demo  on behalf of Bas
> Couwenberg 
> Sent: 18 April 2017 3:19 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions; live-demo
> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs
> providing this ?
>
> On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
> > Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat, an idea to consider
> > on this . . . what about . . .
> >
> > having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in place for
> > providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different devices and
> > (portable) services.  For example,
> >
> >
> >   *   Generating the Thumb Drives
> >  *   These should be generated as needed, based on our usage
> > locally for different events.  When we don’t end up using some of them
> > at a particular event, we end up re-writing them with the newer
> > version of OSGeo-Live for the next event.  Not really an economically
> > sound model.
> >   *   Setting up something like a Raspberry Pi with OSGeo-Live.
> > Possibly for resale, certainly as a download for other to install.
> >   *   Setting up a Cloud (OSGE Certified?!) version of OSGe-Live
> >   *   As has been mentioned before, an application picker for
> > installation of software would go a long ways.
> >  *   There’s a bit of effort required for this one I’ll grant you,
> > but it would certainly go along was toward promoting OSGeo.
> >   *   Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo.
> >   *   Setting up a Docker . . .
> >
> > Well you get the idea,  if your going to pay for something, may as
> > well go for broke.  You end up with a one stop shop and possibly a
> > container of sorts for other projects to add in their own dedicated
> > versions of the same sort of devices/services.
>
> Are you volunteering to implement any of the above?
>
> These are good suggestions, but without people to do the work it will
> never materialize.
>
> OSGeo-Live is understaffed as it is, see also:
>
>   http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-April/012031.html
>
> Kind Regards,
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Suchith Anand 
OSGeo Live is one of the excellent success stories of OSGeo and it is important 
as a community we need to pool our ideas/resources for not only keeping 
building upon this but expanding for the future. Hence i put this in the wider 
lists to stimulate ideas. For example at the recent RDA meetings in Barcelona , 
i started pushing for getting sponsors to fund dedicate staff time for OSGeo 
Live educational materials for UN and other training/capacity development needs 
 [1] and i will keep pushing this through all my contacts .

The ideas put by Brian are excellent for the industry/SME ecosystem of OSGeo to 
start exploring and expanding. For example Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo. 
Time for online version of QGIS has come (it will be better than Arcgisonline 
or other properitery ones). QGISOnline will be a true open platform .

Suchith



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From: Live-demo  on behalf of Bas Couwenberg 

Sent: 18 April 2017 3:19 PM
To: OSGeo Discussions; live-demo
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing 
this ?

On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
> Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat, an idea to consider
> on this . . . what about . . .
>
> having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in place for
> providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different devices and
> (portable) services.  For example,
>
>
>   *   Generating the Thumb Drives
>  *   These should be generated as needed, based on our usage
> locally for different events.  When we don’t end up using some of them
> at a particular event, we end up re-writing them with the newer
> version of OSGeo-Live for the next event.  Not really an economically
> sound model.
>   *   Setting up something like a Raspberry Pi with OSGeo-Live.
> Possibly for resale, certainly as a download for other to install.
>   *   Setting up a Cloud (OSGE Certified?!) version of OSGe-Live
>   *   As has been mentioned before, an application picker for
> installation of software would go a long ways.
>  *   There’s a bit of effort required for this one I’ll grant you,
> but it would certainly go along was toward promoting OSGeo.
>   *   Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo.
>   *   Setting up a Docker . . .
>
> Well you get the idea,  if your going to pay for something, may as
> well go for broke.  You end up with a one stop shop and possibly a
> container of sorts for other projects to add in their own dedicated
> versions of the same sort of devices/services.

Are you volunteering to implement any of the above?

These are good suggestions, but without people to do the work it will
never materialize.

OSGeo-Live is understaffed as it is, see also:


  http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-April/012031.html

Kind Regards,

Bas
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Heads up: First OSGeo Reception at EGU General Assembly in Vienna / OSGeo-Townhall

2017-04-18 Thread Peter Löwe 
[Apologies for cross-posting !]

Dear all,

the annual European Geoscience Union (EGU) General Assembly starts on April 24 
in Vienna.

As in the previous years, there will be a dedicated Townhall event organised by 
OSGeo on Thursday, April 27. This event is a reach out effort, to allow OSGeo 
advocates and scientists to mingle, discuss and network. (Details here: 
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/session/25684 Flyer: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/images/9/93/TM9_Poster_EGU2017-DinA3.pdf)

NEW: In addition, this year we will also have a dedicated OSGeo reception, 
right before the Townhall event (Thursday April 27, 18:00 hours, room 1.85). 
The reception is geared towards scientists which are already involved in OSGeo, 
allowing them to network and discuss recent OSGeo developments and in-depth 
topics in a closer circle. 

Since this is a new format, it would be great if everybody who's considering to 
attend could indicate hers/his interest via Doodle 
(http://doodle.com/poll/ngxzv7hkfnug9q7g). Input for the agenda/discussion 
points would be also very much appreciated (-> OSGeo Wiki: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2017#Reception_Topics )

Please share this information with interested colleagues. 


Best regards,
Peter



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) 
Bas,

We’ve been making Thumb drives for a few years now and DVDs before that.  We’ve 
been making the Thumb Drives by hand on our own, which is a bit of time and 
effort to complete.  We’ve been handling this for our own promotional purposes 
of OSGeo, etc and have only been building less than 75 at a time.

We’ve also installed some of the OSGeo-Live apps on a Raspberry Pi to good 
effect, but we haven’t tried a whole Live install on a PI yet, but all 
indications are that it would (mostly) work.  The Short answer is, we’ve figure 
out the mechanics of this, but the writing of the actual hardware would require 
some funding to complete as a repeatable process.

bobb



On Apr 18, 2017, at 9:19 AM, Bas Couwenberg 
> wrote:

On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat, an idea to consider
on this . . . what about . . .
having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in place for
providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different devices and
(portable) services.  For example,
 *   Generating the Thumb Drives
*   These should be generated as needed, based on our usage
locally for different events.  When we don’t end up using some of them
at a particular event, we end up re-writing them with the newer
version of OSGeo-Live for the next event.  Not really an economically
sound model.
 *   Setting up something like a Raspberry Pi with OSGeo-Live.
Possibly for resale, certainly as a download for other to install.
 *   Setting up a Cloud (OSGE Certified?!) version of OSGe-Live
 *   As has been mentioned before, an application picker for
installation of software would go a long ways.
*   There’s a bit of effort required for this one I’ll grant you,
but it would certainly go along was toward promoting OSGeo.
 *   Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo.
 *   Setting up a Docker . . .
Well you get the idea,  if your going to pay for something, may as
well go for broke.  You end up with a one stop shop and possibly a
container of sorts for other projects to add in their own dedicated
versions of the same sort of devices/services.

Are you volunteering to implement any of the above?

These are good suggestions, but without people to do the work it will never 
materialize.

OSGeo-Live is understaffed as it is, see also:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-April/012031.html

Kind Regards,

Bas
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Bas Couwenberg 

On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:

Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat, an idea to consider
on this . . . what about . . .

having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in place for
providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different devices and
(portable) services.  For example,


  *   Generating the Thumb Drives
 *   These should be generated as needed, based on our usage
locally for different events.  When we don’t end up using some of them
at a particular event, we end up re-writing them with the newer
version of OSGeo-Live for the next event.  Not really an economically
sound model.
  *   Setting up something like a Raspberry Pi with OSGeo-Live.
Possibly for resale, certainly as a download for other to install.
  *   Setting up a Cloud (OSGE Certified?!) version of OSGe-Live
  *   As has been mentioned before, an application picker for
installation of software would go a long ways.
 *   There’s a bit of effort required for this one I’ll grant you,
but it would certainly go along was toward promoting OSGeo.
  *   Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo.
  *   Setting up a Docker . . .

Well you get the idea,  if your going to pay for something, may as
well go for broke.  You end up with a one stop shop and possibly a
container of sorts for other projects to add in their own dedicated
versions of the same sort of devices/services.


Are you volunteering to implement any of the above?

These are good suggestions, but without people to do the work it will 
never materialize.


OSGeo-Live is understaffed as it is, see also:

 http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-April/012031.html

Kind Regards,

Bas
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

2017-04-18 Thread Suchith Anand 
I would like to also support the idea that it is convenient to have someone 
(ideally many) to do the "mass production" of the OSGeo Live USBs esp for  
training and education programs globally . Are there any SMEs doing this? If 
not, this is a great opportunity for the SMEs in the OSGeo ecosystem to move in 
and expand.


Best wishes,


Suchith



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