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<p>We are starting to build the 4.5 <a href="http://live.osgeo.org"
class="external text" title="http://live.osgeo.org"
rel="nofollow">OSGeo-Live</a> DVD and want to hear from all
included projects, translators, packagers, users, testers or
others who wish to help improve OSGeo-Live. OSGeo-Live 4.5 will be
released mid March 2011, ready for a number of big GeoSpatial
conferences soon after.
</p>
<p>Focus on this next release will be on improved Quality and
Translating documentation.
</p>
<a name="Packaged_projects_-_which_version.3F"
id="Packaged_projects_-_which_version.3F"></a>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">Packaged projects - which version?</span></h2>
<p>Could each project please tell us which version is intended to be
included. Status is maintained <a
href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB#gid=8"
class="external text"
title="https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB#gid=8"
rel="nofollow">here</a>. Understanding what will, or will not
change helps us coordinate reviewers and testers. We will be
building from the Xubuntu 10.04 base, which is the same as last
release.
</p>
<p>If you have a established, stable project which you would like
included on OSGeo-Live, then please talk to us about it.
</p>
<a name="Use_Natural_Earth_dataset_for_examples"
id="Use_Natural_Earth_dataset_for_examples"></a>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">Use Natural Earth dataset for
examples</span></h2>
<p>In order to ensure consistency and reduce disk space used, we ask
that, where appropriate, examples use the common Natural Earth
dataset, as explained <a
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets"
class="external text"
title="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets"
rel="nofollow">here</a>.
</p>
<a name="Translations" id="Translations"></a>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">Translations</span></h2>
<p>We expect to have main pages, Project Overviews and possibly OGC
Standard Overviews translated into multiple languages for this
next release. People have already translated much of the
documentation into German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Greek.
</p>
<p>Could all projects please update your English Project Overviews
as soon as you can to give translators enough time to translate.
</p>
<p>Please contact us if you are able to help with translation, or
would like to translate a new language. The process is described <a
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Translate"
class="external text"
title="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Translate"
rel="nofollow">here</a>.
</p>
<a name="Quick_Starts" id="Quick_Starts"></a>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">Quick Starts</span></h2>
<p>Half the packaged projects had Quick Starts written for the last
release (4.0) and we'd like to see Quick Starts for all projects
for the next release. One of our users has volunteered to review
Quick Starts for usability and help projects capture screen grabs.
This is a big job and we'd like to hear from anyone else who'd can
help out.
</p>
<p>Again, could projects please update Quick Starts early to allow
time for review and screen grabs.
</p>
<a name="User_Testing" id="User_Testing"></a>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">User Testing</span></h2>
<p>With ~ 50 applications to be packaged on the next OSGeo-Live, our
core OSGeo-Live team have not had time to run all the Quickstart
applications. We would really like some help. If you have very
little experience with OSGeo software, then all the better, as you
would be like a typical first time user of OSGeo-Live.
</p>
<p>Running this user testing is one of the best ways to become
familiar with the breath of OSGeo Software available.
If interested, please join the OSGeo List, and start running Quick
Starts as soon as they have been completed by projects.
</p>
<a name="OGC_Standard_Overviews" id="OGC_Standard_Overviews"></a>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">OGC Standard Overviews</span></h2>
<p>The OGC have already written <a
href="http://live.osgeo.org/standards/standards.html"
class="external text"
title="http://live.osgeo.org/standards/standards.html"
rel="nofollow">one page overviews</a> for half the OGC standards
and have committed to writing up the remaining standards for then
next release. We will be calling on the standards community to
help review these standards to ensure they are accurate, clear and
understandable.
</p>
<a name="Key_Milestones" id="Key_Milestones"></a>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">Key Milestones</span></h2>
<dl>
<dd> 24 Jan 2011 Application Overviews ready for Review
</dd>
<dd> 31 Jan 2011 Application Feature Freeze
</dd>
<dd> 21 Feb 2011 Deliver to User Acceptance Test
</dd>
<dd> 14 Mar 2011 Final sent to printers
</dd>
</dl>
<p><a
href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB"
class="external text"
title="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB"
rel="nofollow">... full schedule</a>
</p>
<a name="About_OSGeo-Live" id="About_OSGeo-Live"></a>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">About OSGeo-Live</span></h2>
<p>OSGeo-live is an <a href="http://xubuntu.org" class="external
text" title="http://xubuntu.org" rel="nofollow">XUbuntu</a>
based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available
via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and soon to be released USB. You
can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial
software without installing anything.
</p>
<a name="Contact_Us.3F" id="Contact_Us.3F"></a>
<h2> <span class="mw-headline">Contact Us?</span></h2>
<p>Website: <a href="http://live.osgeo.org" class="external free"
title="http://live.osgeo.org" rel="nofollow">http://live.osgeo.org</a>
</p>
<p>Mailing List: <a
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo"
class="external free"
title="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo"
rel="nofollow">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a>
</p>
<p>or contact Cameron Shorter directly at: cameronD O
TshorterATlisasoftD O Tcom.
</p>
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Source: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_11">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_11</a><br>
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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Director
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
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