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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">In this OSGeo-Live 8.0 development cycle we have seen major
upgrades: moving to the light weight Lubuntu distribution, moving
to a new Long Time Support release (LTS), and moving even more
applications to make use of Debian packaging. It should be our
best distribution yet. But this has impacted our schedule, as the
Ubuntu LTS has only become stable within the last week (14.04.1
release), and we need help in order to deliver OSGeo-Live to<span
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no-repeat;">FOSS4G-PDX</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with
our usual high level of quality and reliability.</p>
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255);">In particular, we need help:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Testing to verify everything
works in this new system and fixing bugs. Download alpha1<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/8.0alpha4/osgeo-live-mini-8.0alpha4-i386.iso"
class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); padding-right: 13px;
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50% no-repeat;">here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[0].</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Updating version number in your
Project Overview (if changed), and possibly mention a new
feature or two. Doc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Documentation"
class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); padding-right: 13px;
background:
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50% no-repeat;">howtos</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[4].</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Re-running the Quickstart and
ensure each step is still valid, and screenshots match the
implementation.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Updating status of the Project
Overview and Quickstart to "8.0draft" in our status sheet. [1]</li>
</ol>
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white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">Due to our tight timelines, we might need to hide
applications which we can't get stablised, tested, or docs updated
in time. Please check our current list of open issues [2][3] to
verify that your project is working as expected.</p>
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none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Schedule">Schedule</span></h2>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">27 July 2014 Alpha4 released
[3]. Please verify all applications work and fix bugs.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">03 August 2014 Beta1 release -
start taking screen shots with new background.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">07 August 2014 Community Testing
Sprint (UAT).</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">07 August 2014 English docs
complete.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">14 August 2014 Translations
complete.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">17 August 2014 OSGeo-Live 8.0
sent to the printers.</li>
</ul>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">[0]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/8.0alpha4/osgeo-live-mini-8.0alpha4-i386.iso"
class="external free" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); padding-right: 13px; background:
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no-repeat;">http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/8.0alpha4/osgeo-live-mini-8.0alpha4-i386.iso</a></p>
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19.049999237060547px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
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normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">[1]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc#gid=13"
class="external free" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); padding-right: 16px; background:
url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/lock_icon.gif) 100% 50%
no-repeat;">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc#gid=13</a></p>
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19.049999237060547px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
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normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">[2]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10" class="external
free" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(51, 102, 187); padding-right: 13px; background:
url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50%
no-repeat;">http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height:
19.049999237060547px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">[3]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2014-July/009274.html"
class="external free" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); padding-right: 13px; background:
url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50%
no-repeat;">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2014-July/009274.html</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height:
19.049999237060547px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">[4] Doc howtos:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Documentation"
class="external free" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:
none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); padding-right: 13px; background:
url(http://wiki.osgeo.org/skins/monobook/external.png) 100% 50%
no-repeat;">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Documentation</a></p>
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