<div dir="ltr">Hi Cameron<div><br></div><div>I'm strongly of the opinion that people should bring their own laptops...</div><div><br></div><div>If they need a standard environment, then sending a pre-workshop job to install is one option, and virtualisation is another.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that wasting an hour installing software is not ideal, but these days, installing QGIS is easy, and if someone needs GeoServer or something heavier, then they should be ready to run something heavier, or the workshop coordinator should provide a cloud environment...</div><div><br></div><div>Anyhow, my $0.02!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 at 14:05 Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am I right in understanding that workshop participants will be expected <br>
to bring their own laptop? Consistent feedback in Lessons Learned from <br>
past FOSS4G workshops is that getting a classroom full of <br>
"bring-your-own-laptops" is both error prone and time consuming, often <br>
taking the first hour of the workshop.<br>
<br>
Advice usually comes back to "it is best to have all the computers <br>
pre-installed with software required". This puts a hefty burden on <br>
workshop organisors and presenters to source computers and set them all <br>
up with software.<br>
<br>
Something that many of the conferences have started doing is installing <br>
the OSGeo-Live on all workshop computers. OSGeo-Live is a Lubuntu linux <br>
distribution which comes pre-installed with ~ 50 of the best OSGeo <br>
applications, along with sample data. It can either be booted from a <br>
USB, or installed into a Virtual Machine. I'd suggest that we should be <br>
considering this for our workshops too, and encouraging workshop <br>
presenters to make use of OSGeo-Live.<br>
<br>
We should also encourage all participants to install OSGeo-Live onto the <br>
laptop before coming to the conference, and we should have a stack of <br>
spare OSGeo-Live USBs floating around for those people who haven't got <br>
themselves setup.<br>
<br>
(I should declare here my personal vested interest in OSGeo-Live, as I'm <br>
one of the founders of the project - it started as part of the FOSS4G <br>
2009 conference in Sydney).<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Cameron Shorter<br>
Technology Demystifier<br>
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant<br>
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</blockquote></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Alex Leith<div>0419 189 050</div></div></div>