[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 5.0 released - the Open Source Geospatial DVD

Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas jsanz at osgeo.org
Tue Sep 13 01:46:18 EDT 2011


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El 08/09/11 14:41, Cameron Shorter escribió:
> Thanks all for your positive feedback, but I'd be remiss not to point
> out who really deserves the credit.
> 
> We have in the order of 80 people have contributed at various times to
> packaging and translating applications on OSGeo-Live. But in particular,
> Alex Mandel, Hamish Bowman, Brian Hamlin and Angelos Tzotsos have put in
> an exceptional amount of unglamorous work to get this release out. They
> have turned releases over, trawled through compile logs looking for
> bugs, tested and then re-tested applications, and hovered on IRC chat
> answering questions and supporting other developers get their
> applications working. It is the combined work of all these people,
> working quietly in the background on lots of small tasks, which makes
> the DVD the quality product it has become.
> 
> I think the true value of this DVD is not just that people have the
> chance to easily trial Geospatial Open Source software, but that it
> presents the software in a professional way, demonstrating the attention
> to detail present in our OSGeo-Stack, which gives new users the
> confidence to switch from proprietary software.
> 
> Oh, and Stephen, we do include information about pgrouting here:
> http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/pgrouting_overview.html
> 

Totally agree with Cameron, without the efforts from Alex, Hamish, Brian
an Angelos that couldn't be possible, you rock guys!!

BTW I've felt really proud when this morning I recieved the Live DVD at
the FOSS4G registration desk :-)


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Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
http://es.osgeo.org
http://jorgesanz.net
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