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Live GIS Disc Press Release 81

= OSGeoLive enters OSGeo Incubation =
6 November 2017 - The OSGeo Foundation and OSGeoLive Team are pleased to announce that the OSGeoLive project has officially entered the OSGeo Foundation's incubation process. By completing this incubation process, the OSGeoLive team intend to officially demonstrate the level of rigour, quality and sustainability of the project.
As noted by Angelos Tzotsos, chair of the OSGeoLive Project Steering Committee, "With the OSGeoLive project coming up to being 9 years old, we felt it was time to audit our processes against best practice, and demonstrate our commitment to quality".
Jody Garnett, incubation mentor, welcomes the challenge: "Incubation is a chance to review how the project works, emphasizing being geospatial, open source, and fair. Incubation can be done very quickly, and I am hopeful that the OSGeoLive project can set a new standard.".
The team is living up to their enthusiastic reputation and has already started on the incubation checklist.
== About OSGeoLive Initiative ==
OSGeoLive is an outreach initiative helping make the latest open source geospatial software easily available for evaluation, education and promotion. As an outreach initiative OSGeoLive is one of the most successful community activities of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation boasting a wide range of contributors from around the world, collaborating with our foundation projects, and building connections with the wider geospatial open source community.
The team produces a bootable USB or Virtual Machine offers a "first contact" experience for trying out open source geospatial. 
== About the Incubation Committee ==
The OSGeo Incubator Committee is responsible welcome new projects to the Open Source GeoSpatial Foundation and promoting fair, inclusive, open source development.
The Incubation process teams up a project team with a mentor from our community to review how the project functions, how open source works, and how it can be made better for everyone.
Category: Live-demo
Live GIS Disc Press Release 9

=USB testing required if we are to hand out OSGeo-Live on a USB at FOSS4G=
14 August 2010
The FOSS4G Organising Committee have budget to distribute OSGeo-Live either on a DVD or USB.
Ideally we would have liked to distribute on a USB to all delegates however out of the 5 or so computers tested, we've had reports of at least 2 computers which can't boot from the USB. So we will distribute OSGeo-Live to all delegates on the well tested DVD version.
However, if we can get test results from enough people by the end of this coming weekend, Sunday 15 August, an OSGeo-Live USB will be created and given to VIPs.
Here is the deal:
If we get:
; 7+ test results, from a variety of different computers, showing a reasonable number of computers will work with a USB:
: we will hand out OSGeo-Live USBs to the (more forgiving) FOSS4G presenters. Standard delegates will be given a Live-DVD.
PS, the RC9 (hopefully final) version of OSGeo Live can be downloaded from:
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/4.0-rc9/
==How to test a USB==
* Download and burn the USB as per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB
* Describe your test results here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing#USB_testing
* Optionally also tell us your experience on IRC or email:
: irc://freenode.net#osgeolive
: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
Category: Live-demo
Live GIS Disc Quick Start

Looking to download a copy or read the help for the OSGeo Live DVD/USB/VM go to http://live.osgeo.org
The page below and the list of other wiki pages are aimed at the developers of the project.
See also:
* Live GIS Disc Quick Start for Virtual Machines
* Live GIS Disc Quick Start for USB
* Back to the Live GIS Disc main page
* The Live GIS Disc FAQ
=Running OSGeo-Live from a DVD=
;System Requirements
* RAM: 512 Meg, preferably 1 Gig.
* CPU: 1 GHz i686 or compatible (Intel/AMD)
* Hard Disk:
: None required if running directly from the DVD
: At least 5 Gig if you wish to install the operating system.
* Mouse: a 3-button mouse is useful, especially for Mac trackpad users.
; Download
: Download .iso from http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd
; Create DVD
: Burn the ISO onto a DVD (or boot in a Virtual Machine
; Run
* Put the DVD into your computer's CD drive, then reboot your computer.
* If your computer is set to boot from CD (as is often the case) you should boot up into an Xubuntu system, with Geospatial applications installed. Otherwise you'll have to adjust the BIOS boot settings or press the boot menu button just after powering-up.
* If you find yourself at a pretty login page simply press return or wait for the countdown to timeout.
* Try the many applications from the "GeoSpatial" menu.
= Installing and running in a Virtual Machine =
The exact instructions depend on the VM software you will use:
* VirtualBox
* KVM-Qemu
* VMWare
The basic idea is that you create an empty VM disk space (10-20gb is typical), mount the downloaded ISO image as a DVD (or CD) drive, then boot and install to the VM disk from the Live DVD. Once it is installed you can boot directly into the VM without having the DVD image attached.
= Click2Try: run from browser =
(this information now out-of-date?)
The old 2.0 Virtual Machine can be viewed from http://click2try.com from within a web browser with Java plugin enabled.
# Open http://www.click2try.com/catalog/Web-Development/Geospatial/Arramagong-GISVM/details
# Click the big Try this application now button.
# Review the connection test results and fix, if necessary.
# Either wait for the application to launch or click the Launch App button.
* Login with user=user, password=user
* You should see the icons for the Geospatial applications on the desktop. You can start and try any application.
* To save data, you'll need to apply for a free click2try account at http://www.click2try.com/component/user/?task=register.
Category: Live-demo
Live GIS Disc Quick Start for Virtual Machines

= Run OSGeo-Live ISO in VirtualBox =
Here we describe how to install an ISO into the Open Source, VirtualBox Virtual Machine. There are many other alternatives which are similar.
; System Requirements
* RAM: 1 Gig, preferably 2Gig if you plan to run other applications as well
* Spare Hard Disk Space:
** 5 Gig if running from ISO
** 12 Gig if downloading just the Virtual Machine
** 17 Gig if installing locally from an ISO
* Download and install Virtual Box. On linux do the following:
 apt-get install virtualbox-ose
* 
== Install a Virtual Machine ==
Download a Virtual Machine player. VMWare Player is recommended as the image has been built and tested using VMWare, however VMWare is a pain to install due to all the personal details you need to enter). If you are on linux, it is much easier to install VirtualBox, and the applications work almost as well, a few window resize glitches and the like.
 apt-get install virtualbox-ose
VMWare Server can be used to serve images out using a web browser. It requires 2 Gig of RAM. VMWare Server is not currently recommended as version 2 of VMWare Server and Ubuntu 9.4 or Ubuntu 9.10 has proven to be very flaky.
== ISO in VMWare Player (recommended) ==
* Run VMWare Player
* Select "Create New Virtual Machine"
* Select "Installer Disk Image from ISO"
* Select Linux/Ubuntu
* Hard Disk = any size (0 is fine)
== Install VM in Virtual Box ==
* On recent versions of Virtual Box (tested on Sun Virtual Box 3.0.2) you can add to the virtual disks catalog the vmdk image without any conversion so the only thing you have to do is create a new VM and assign the disk to it.
** Make a New virtual machine.
** When asked about the hard drive choose to use and existing image, in the subsequent dialogs add the vmdk you downloaded and choose it.
** Choose your RAM, video memory and other options.
** The image should now boot like any other Virtual Box image.
If the above doesn't work try to convert the vmdk to a vbox image
* As the Live GIS Disc is a VMWare virtual machine, you should convert it to the Virtual Box format. There are detailed instruction at the Ubuntu wiki to convert it on a linux box.
== Install VM in VMWare Player ==
Add details about how to set up the image ...
See http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/vmware_quickstart.html (outdated!)
Tested in 2013, OSGeo live 7.0 VM:
* Start VMware Player
* Create a new virtual machine (no need to install an operating system, since we already have the VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk) file
* Select at Operating System "Ubuntu" for the Virtual Machine
* Once created with an empty virtual hard drive, go to the settings of this new VM
** remove the existing empty virtual hard drive
** add a new hard drive which you point to the existing VMDK file "osgeo-live-vm-7.0.vmdk"
Ready! Play the OSGeo live 7.0 VM in VMPlayer...
Category: Live-demo
Live GIS Disk FOSS4G 2010

=Abstract=
* Authors: Cameron Shorter, Jody Garnett
This presentation will provide a lightening overview of all the applications on the OSGeo Live DVD.
The OSGeo Live DVD contains over 35 of the best Open Source GeoSpatial applications, bundled on an Xubuntu system. It is an excellent tool for demonstrating GeoSpatial Open Source, using with tutorials and workshops, or providing to potenial new users.
The presentation will be very useful for OSGeo evangillists looking for material to present at other conferences, or attendees wishing to report back to workmates when returning to work.
At FOSS4G 2009, attendees not familiar with the OSGeo stack noted that it would have been useful to attend an overview of the FOSS stack at the conference start to help select which presentations to attend. Hence, we suggest this presentation is presented early in the conference.
Category: Live-demo
Live GIS Disk OSGIS 2011

June 2011, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
* http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
=Abstract=
Title: OSGeo Live DVD - Lightening Overview
This presentation provides a lightening overview of 50 of the best Geospatial Open Source applications, which are included on the OSGeo-Live DVD.
OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Xubuntu, that allows people to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets, project overviews and quick-starts for all applications. Everything is set up, ready to go: just reboot into it, glance at the help pages on the desktop, and go. The existing hard drive and operating system is not modified in any way, everything happens in temporary system memory. 
This presentation will provide attendees with a broad understanding of the full breadth of quality Open Source Geospatial software available. It will also be very useful for OSGeo evangillists looking for material to present at other conferences, or attendees wishing to report back to co-workers when returning to work. As an example, the OSGeo Live DVD has been extensively used for tutorials and workshops in the 2009 and 2010 editions of the FOSS4G conference. A version 4.5 of the DVD should be available for use in the major 2011 open source geospatial events, such as the OSGIS 2011 conference.
Home page: http://live.osgeo.org
Authors: Thierry Badard (presenter) and Cameron Shorter.
Thierry Badard is professor in geo-informatics at Laval University, Quebec, Canada and co-founder and CTO of Spatialytics (http://www.spatialytics.com).
Cameron Shorter is Geospatial Solutions Manager at Lisasoft (http://lisasoft.com, Australia) and the OSGeo Live DVD project leader.
Category: Live-demo
Live GIS GSoC 2016

= OSGeo-Live Google Summer of Code ideas 2015 =
OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. It provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets and documentation.
=Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks=
==OSGeo-Live Dashboard==
This GSoC 2016 Idea will focus on the development of interactive web application (dashboards) where the user will learn how to build interactive web-based widgets to execute common task in geospatial data processing. The series of "interactive dashboards" will make use of the data already available on the OSGeo-Live as well as web-based resources, making wide use of the OGC standard protocol to access the dataset. The working environment will be based on the jupyter-notebook which enable fast prototyping of both analytical methods as well as GUI components.
Such dashboard will teach how to “bind” together, code and GUI using basic example workflow. It can be considered a cross-project idea where geospatial tools (installed on OSGeo-Live) and data (already on OSGeo-Live) are used to build interactive web-application to visualize and interact with the data-source and with data-products. The results will be a set of reusable-code to build interactive web applications.
== Student ==
* 
== Willing to Mentor ==
* Massimo Di Stefano (@epifanio GitHub id)
* Cameron Shorter (@camerons GitHub id)
Category: Live-demo
Live GIS Management

The OSGeo-Live Project Steering Committee (PSC) is the official managing body of OSGeo-Live and is responsible for setting overall project direction. The committee is drawn from the OSGeo-Live community and is based on merit and interest.
==Decisions==
Decisions are based on voting using the following:
* +1 : For
* +0: Mildly for, but mostly indifferent
* 0: Indifferent
* -0: Mildly against, but mostly indifferent
* -1 : Strongly against. This is expected to be accompanied by a reason.
For most decisions, a motion is raised within one of the OSGeo-Live open forums (IRC, email list, etc) and those present vote and decide. Should a decision:
* Be strategic or impact many within OSGeo-Live, 
* Or if there be contention in deciding, and after discussion at least one member is still strongly against the motion, by continuing to vote -1, 
Then the motion should be referred to the PSC. 
For motions presented to the PSC, a motion is considered passed when there are more PSC +1 votes than -1 votes, and either all PSC members have voted, or 4 days have passed. In the case of a tie, the PSC chair shall have 1.5 votes.
==PSC Members==
* Angelos_Tzotsos (Chair)
* Brian M Hamlin
* Cameron Shorter
* Alex Mandel
* Johan Van de Wauw
* Bas Couwenberg
* Massimo De Stefano
* Astrid Emde
* Ben Caradoc-Davies
* Nicolas Roelandt
* Vicky Vergara
Our thanks to previous PSC members:
* Hamish Bowman
Selection of new PSC members is determined by PSC vote. PSC members may retire any time. If a PSC member becomes inactive for many months they may be invited to retire, and if unresponsive they may be removed by the existing PSC.
==Expectations of PSC members==
* Regularly contribute to OSGeo-Live or related activities
* Help with whatever dirty work is required to keep the project moving forward
* Monitor OSGeo-Live conversations, either in weekly IRC meetings, or on the email list, and contribute constructively where appropriate
* Vote promptly (within days) to motions being raised
Credit: This management process draws heavily from other OSGeo project PMC processes.
Live GIS Poster

=== Source Material ===
https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/trunk/en/poster/
=== About the poster ===
The poster has originally been presented at EGU Leonardo Conference. It is now available for OSGeo Advocates to present at FOSS4G and related conferences.
=== Version ===
The poster is currently based on the OSGeo-Live v.6.0. Feel free to update it to the most recent version.
=== How is the poster updated? ===
You are free to modify it. If you don't have access right to upload your changes, please contact me (Madi) or the OSGeo-Live mailing list.
=== What tools should be used to update the document? ===
It has been made using LibreOffice. (2013-06-19: Using OpenOffice 3.2.1 seems to have problems. It caused gimp water marks to be shown in a messy way).
=== How to add another project? How to edit the poster? ===
Please make sure formatting etc remains consistent.
If you open both the presentation and the poster at the same time with Impress, you can copy and paste the images. The squared icons representing the software don't need to be changed in size from the presentation to the poster.
=== Recommendations for printing the poster ===
Original size is A0.
=== What does poster printing typically cost? ===
It really depends on the paper quality.
=== Does the marketing committee sponsor printing of the poster? ===
(Question needs to be asked of the marketing committee).
=== What is the license on the poster? ===
CC-By
Live GIS Testimonials

See also Live GIS History.
== SIGTE - University of Girona (2014 Testimonial) ==
As a global assessment, we must admit that we are pretty happy about the overall behaviour of the OSGeo-Live. We have been using it in most of the Spanish FOSS4G workshops, covering a broad range of issues and themes such as GIS Desktop Workshops (QGIS, gvSIG, GRASS, PostGIS and pgRouting, ... even JASPA), Programming workshops (Integration of geospatial free technologies, Introduction to python for geospatial applications, programming new applications for Sextante, ...), Web Applications Workshops (Introduction to MapProxy, Developing Web Applications with AngularJS and Leaflet, OpenLayers and GeoServer, ...), and other specific workshops such as the integration of OSM data + imposm + TileMill, ...
We generally don't need to install extra packages and libraries but, if need it, we can do it without arising too many problems. So, in general terms, there are no remarkable problems installing new pieces of software.
Sometimes the tricky issue is that the host pc has low RAM memory, so we can't assign more than 2Gb, to the virtual machine. But, I suppose that this has nothing to do with the OSGeo-Live.
We have intensively used the OSGeo-Live to conduct the whole Summer School each July, with a pretty good performance. Sometimes, we had some troubles with few machines (slow performance, some crashes, etc...) but without a clear and concrete reason. Just happens. :)
However, during this edition we encountered a problem with OpenJump and PostGIS. Each time we tried to configure a new connection to a PostGIS database, OpenJump started to freeze...
Regarding to the datasets, we have been using Natural Earth data and OSM data included on the distro, as well as some external datasets. Nothing to mention in here. Good performance in every sense.
Last but not least, within the UNIGIS MSc framework, we really encourage students to make use of the OSGeo-Live DVD for their assignments and practical work. UNIGIS is a online MSc so sometimes, it's a little bit difficult to help students to properly install and make use of the OSGeo-Live virtual disk. This could take some time but nothing specially relevant. The big issue, for those who are not familiar with a new OS, is to not enter in a state of panic the first time they see a linux environment in front of their eyes... alone :) In a face-to-face courses, this is more easy to handle than in an online course but with a little bit of patience and positive attitude, this is not a barrier.
In summary, using OSGeo-Live virtual disk has a double positive result: discovering and working with foss4g, as well as discovering a new OS.
Thanks to all the OSGeo-Live crew for their work and passion. Good job!
All the best,
Lluís Vicens
SIGTE - University of Girona
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Category: Education 
Category: Live-demo
Live GIS Translation Glossary

This table provides a list of OSGeo-Live documentation related terms. The glossary shall help to harmonize translation work of OSGeo-Live docs.
ENGLISH 	FRENCH 	GERMAN	ITALIAN 	SPANISH	GREEK	POLISH	CHINESE (Simplified)	JAPAN	CATA
Best Practices 	Bonnes pratiques 	 	Linee Guida 	 	 	 	最佳实践/建议操作 	 	
Core Features 	Fonctionnalités principales 	 	Caratteristiche Principali 	 	 	 	核心功能 	 	
Details 	Détails 	 	Dettagli 	 	 	 	详细信息 	 	
Feature 	Fonctionnalité 	 	Oggetto (geografico) / Feature	 	 	 	 	 	
Geospatial 	Géospatial 	 	Geospaziale 	 	 	 	 	 	
Overlay 	Superposition 	 	Sovrapposizione 	 	 	 	 	 	
Processing 	Traitement 	 	Elaborazione 	 	 	 	 	 	
Quickstart 	Démarrage rapide 	 	Guida rapida 	 	 	 	快速入门 	 	
Quickstart documentation	Documentation de démarrage rapide	 	Documentazione introduttiva 	 	 	 	快速入门教程 	 	
Plz add... 	 	 	 	 	 	 	　 	 	
* I suggest using a Google Spreadsheet or something similar instead of the table above. Long wiki tables are difficult to edit manually. - Tanner Lin 08:57, 5 August 2012 (PDT)
== Further glossaries ==
* GRASS GIS
Category: Translation
LizardTech Report 2007

LizardTech has been a supporter and a sponsor of OSGeo since its
inception, and in 2007 we were pleased to see OSGeo continue to evolve
and grow and mature. From its beginnings, OSGeo has been about building
a community, not just a repository of software.
This past year, we've seen the birth of a number of OSGeo chapters,
based around communities of regional interest or common language. The
Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (CUGOS) formed here in Seattle
back in February, meeting every month here at LizardTech's offices in
Seattle -- it's nice to have a chance to meet other open source geo
folks face-to-face for a change, instead of just trading emails and IRC
messages.
We were also very fortunate this year to meet the global OSGeo community
at the FOSS4G conference in Victoria. LizardTech sent five engineers up
for the week, and all came home with a much better appreciation of the
broad set of libraries and applications we can build on, as well as the
people who work on them.
For many years, LizardTech has relied on open source software as one of
our strategies for more effective development of robust software. We're
proud to associate ourselves with OSGeo, and look forward to another
year of collaboration and growth.
--Michael P. Gerlek, LizardTech
Category: Reports 2007
LizardTech Report 2009

LizardTech has been a sponsor of OSGeo since its inception and we continue to be a proud supporter of the organization and its initiatives.
LizardTech helped out OSGeo in several ways in 2009.
* We continue to host the meetings of CUGOS (The Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source), the Seattle-based chapter of OSGeo. Every month, ten to twenty people from industry and academia attend our meetings.
* LizardTech's own mpg concluded his series of columns for GeoConnexions magazine. Twenty-five articles of over 1000 words each were written by OSGeo members and friends over the past few years.
* LizardTech was a sponsor for the Toronto Code Sprint and sent two of its engineers to the event. We look forward to sponsoring and attending the 2010 event in New York.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, LizardTech contracted with OSGeo developers to fix bugs or add features in OSGeo's projects. Our products rely heavily on open source libraries under the hood, and we continue to find open source to be a cost-effective approach to managing areas outside our core competencies.
We look forward to another year of collaboration and growth. 
Michael P. Gerlek
Director of Engineering
LizardTech
Category: Reports 2009