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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">All,</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Was planning on doing this anyway, but since Cameron decided to ask the question now, here goes . . .</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">The GeoMoose team used the DVD as released in it's WorkShop at the FOSS4G conference with great success. We used many of the installed components in the workshop directly from the DVD. I'm sure I'll miss listing something here about components used, but encourage others from the GeoMoose list and workshop to chime in on the LiveDVD usage at the conference. The pieces I know we used were:</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> ** GeoMoose </font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> ** MapServer</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> ** GeoServer</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> ** Natural Earth Data</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> ** QGIS</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">The GeoMoose Workshop team all worked with the LiveDVD for the presentation. All of the participants of the Workshop used the LiveDVD as installed on the workshop portable computers in the VMs. We didn't build a custom install for the workshop, but chose to use the LiveDVD as-is. Our workshop materials are based off of the LiveDVD and used the components that were already installed to great effect. All of the examples and exercises were worked through on the LiveDVD VM and the results displayed in the VM. We also described how to save the exercises and examples for re-use in their own setup of the VM back in their offices.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">We did build a couple of USBs with the DVD, but only as backups, and didn't end up using them at the conference.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">We had some networking glitches while working through some online examples, which worked for most of the users, but the LiveDVD worked in an offline mode very well. The LiveDVD worked almost flawlessly for our workshop and I personally want to thank the LiveDVD creators for their work on putting it together. It's a great resource in promoting FOSS4G.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">I encourage others from the conference to chime in here as well. </font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Thanks (A lot!!)</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">I've copied the (NEW) GeoMoose List as well with this message..</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">bobb</font> </p>
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>>> Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </p>
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As we were approaching this year's OSGeo-Live release, we were finding<br>it hard to work out whether the previous release of USBs were considered<br>worthwhile or not.<br><br>So as you get back from FOSS4G, can you please share some of your<br>OSGeo-Live stories. You might want to mention some of the following:<br>* Who has tried the DVD/USB? (Developers? Users? Managers? Others in the<br>office?)<br>* What experiences have you had? Did things work? Anything easy or hard<br>to understand?<br>* Did you try the DVD or USB?<br>* Did you try in a VM, fast/slow desktop/laptop with lots/little RAM?<br><br>--<br>Cameron Shorter<br>Geospatial Solutions Manager<br>Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050<br>Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254<br><br>Think Globally, Fix Locally<br>Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source<br><a href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Live-demo mailing list<br>Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a><br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a><br>
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