Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-10-18 Thread Marco Lechner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tyler, sorry, I can't help you according to Intel-MACs. We only used the Notebooks provided by our university computing center. So we only had to deal with three different hardware-types. Our first idea was to use Live-DVDs and create one broad

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-10-17 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 9-Oct-08, at 12:04 AM, Marco Lechner wrote: At the german language conference FOSSGIS in April we used live- images to provide all the workshop-notebooks using PXE-boot with individual liveimages booting at the beginning of a workshop. Marco, Slightly off-topic, but I'm curious if (and

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-10-09 Thread Marco Lechner
Hi LiveDVD-Builder, I'm very happy that the concept of live-images also hit FOSS4G-conference. FOSSGIS e.V. (formerly known as GAV e.V.), who will (hopefully) be the institutional form of local chapter DACH soon, startet using live-images about 2 years ago. At the german language conference

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-10-09 Thread Cameron Shorter
Marco, I'm very excited to hear about what seems to be a very successful use of your LiveCD efforts. For FOSS4G2009, we have been discussing whether we should use the LiveDVD as the basis for workshops. (The other high contender will be osgeo4win, based on windows, as many workshop attendees

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-17 Thread Tim Bowden
September 2008 02:40 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD Tim Bowden wrote: Is the liveCD issue worth a BOF in Cape Town? I'm happy to coordinate if there is sufficient interest. Proly irc hookup for those not there. Thoughts

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-11 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
Cameron, would be a great start. from our part we need to know if Luca (doktoreas) is available, he's the liveCd Man. btw, Bruce, encouraging comments, thank you if Luca has time it would be great to keep you two in touch and fix the problem. this is what we were looking for ciao Lorenzo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-11 Thread François Van Der Biest
Hi all, Camptocamp recently made a liveCD too, with MapGuide OS inside, which is based on Ubuntu Hardy. See for instance Gwenael's post about making it available to all via the OSGeo website [1] I think we would be ready to give a helping hand to the community effort of gathering interesting

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-10 Thread Alex Mandel
Mark Leslie wrote: Alex Mandel wrote: Mark Leslie wrote: Greetings, We at LISAsoft are in the process of setting up a Live CD. While the ultimate goal is a 'comprehensive' version by FOSS4G2009, we're starting with a fairly short java-centric stack of software in order to get the

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-10 Thread Gavin Fleming
at the conference? Gavin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Becchi Sent: 10 September 2008 02:40 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD Tim Bowden wrote: Is the liveCD issue worth a BOF in Cape Town? I'm happy

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-10 Thread Cameron Shorter
I'm very excited to hear Markus and Lorenzo correct me and tell me that GeoFOSS packaging is live and well. And yes, we would be delighted to work with you, building upon your work rather than starting again from scratch. The success of a packaging project will come from a strong community.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-10 Thread Paulo Marcondes
2008/9/10 Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have been planning to create a simple live CD (based upon Debian or Ubuntu) for the Java stack - something that we think we could achieve. just a ping: Knoppix had a quite nice compaction, fitting one dvd worth of data into one CD. slow boot,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-10 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Cameron, all, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Cameron Shorter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very excited to hear Markus and Lorenzo correct me and tell me that GeoFOSS packaging is live and well. And yes, we would be delighted to work with you, building upon your work rather than

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-09 Thread Alex Mandel
Mark Leslie wrote: Greetings, We at LISAsoft are in the process of setting up a Live CD. While the ultimate goal is a 'comprehensive' version by FOSS4G2009, we're starting with a fairly short java-centric stack of software in order to get the details worked out and get something out the door

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD

2008-09-09 Thread Mark Leslie
Alex Mandel wrote: Mark Leslie wrote: Greetings, We at LISAsoft are in the process of setting up a Live CD. While the ultimate goal is a 'comprehensive' version by FOSS4G2009, we're starting with a fairly short java-centric stack of software in order to get the details worked out and