Re: [DebianGIS] [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G LiveCD
I'm pulling a copy now to test it, I guess I'll just go through and make
sure everything on the list launches or is running.
Hopefully this won't have the login bug I was running into with the
previous version.
I should have some results in 9 hours.
Alex
Mark Leslie wrote:
> We have now posted an image of the dvd to
> http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/FOSS4G-2008-LiveDVD-Alpha1.iso. My
> attempts and rangling some interesting data came to nothing due to the
> short timeline, but Stefan has added the applications listed. It
> sounds like camp-to-camp won't have time to put into the image this
> week. Is anyone else ready to step up and do their thing?
>
> --
> Mark
>
> 2008/9/15 Mark Leslie <mrk.leslie@gmail.com>:
>> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> We had a very productive IRC discussion today and have a plan to merge
>>> existing Live CD efforts into one for a FOSS4G 2008 release (in 2 weeks).
>>>
>>> Details are being collated here:
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
>>>
>>> Logs of the discussion here:
>>> http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2008-09-11.log
>>>
>>> Future discussion will happen on the debian gis email list:
>>>
>>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-general
>>>
>>>
>>> Debian GIS list,
>>> I hope you don't mind us gate crashing your list.
>>> I'm hoping our LiveCD discussion (based on xubuntu) will be helpful
>>> for members of this list too.
>>>
>> Greetings,
>> Our plan at the moment is quite simple. We're installing the java stack
>> onto the Ominiverde live cd image, and doing whatever configuration and
>> default project setup that we can do by COB Tuesday
>> <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=16&year=2008&hour=17&min=0&sec=0&p1=240>,
>> though it may take some time after that to upload to the server. At
>> this point, we're basically passing the reigns to the next person that
>> wants to add some apps, either fvanderbiest or jsanz.
>>
>> My understanding of the current configuration and what we expect to add
>> is attached. I don't have sizes for the data we're adding for three
>> reasons, I'm still downloading it, I need to crop it to Africa's bbox,
>> and I'm not sure if we'll have time to get it loaded in any useful
>> manner. If it gets in, I expect it to be well under 1GB, for a total
>> size of somewhere under 2.2GB. We haven't bothered looking at getting
>> the image size to fit a CD, since the Ominiverde image is already too
>> big. Ideally we would want both a CD and a DVD, but there really isn't
>> time.
>>
>> Since our timeline is tight any feedback, while always welcome, need
>> come quickly. Who would like to step up to take ownership of the image
>> next, what will you add and how much time will you need?
>>
>> --
>> Mark Leslie
>> Geospatial Software Architect
>> LISAsoft
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>>
>> Ominiverdi: (1.1GB total)
>> -----------
>>
>> Applications:
>> GRASS 6.3.0
>> QGIS 0.11.0
>> PostgreSQL 8.3.1
>> PostGIS 1.3.1
>> GDAL 1.5.0
>> Proj 4.5.0
>> R 2.4.1
>> PgAdmin 1.6.3
>> Windows installers
>>
>> Data:
>> QGIS Alaskan Dataset
>> Spearfish
>> North Carolina GRASS Dataset
>>
>> LISAsoft:
>> ---------
>>
>> Applications:
>> GeoServer (40MB)
>> gvSig (78MB)
>> uDig (100MB)
>> Java 1.6 (100MB)
>>
>> Data: (< 1GB)
>> OSM Africa
>> Global Topography
>> SRTM30 Plus
>>
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