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<p>Hi James, others,<br>
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<p>Yes, please do share any tips, tricks and tools you have worked
out re USB creation (and other tips) in our wiki. A starting point
for collecting USB ideas is here:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB</a><br>
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And if you have ideas which are "production ready", we should
include them in our main OSGeo-Live Quickstart:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/usb_quickstart.html">https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/usb_quickstart.html</a><br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Cameron<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/4/17 1:02 am, James Klassen
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto"><span
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Not sure if
it is useful to others but I wrote a program [1] to help me
when Bob wants a bunch of OSGeo-Live thumb drives created. It
isn't by any means perfect or 100% foolproof but it sure makes
the job quicker for me.</span>
<div dir="auto"
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br>
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<div dir="auto"
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">It takes an
image and waits for USBs of the same size to be inserted, then
copys the difference between the image and the drive (this is
quicker as reads are much faster than writes on the thumb
drives I have seen). It handles multiple thumb drives at a
time, so after starting it, it is just down to changing out
drives for new ones as they finish copying.</div>
<div dir="auto"
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br>
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<div dir="auto"
style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">I make the
image running OSGeo Live in KVM and let it build a virtual USB
at the size of the drives I have on hand. It can help to have
the image on a tmpfs to avoid the source being a bottleneck.</div>
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style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br>
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style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">[1] <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/klassenjs/copy_usb"
style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)">https://github.com/klassenjs/<wbr>copy_usb</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 18, 2017 9:49 AM, "Suchith
Anand" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>>
wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<p>OSGeo Live is one of the excellent success stories of
OSGeo and it is important as a community we need to
pool our ideas/resources for not only keeping building
upon this but expanding for the future. Hence i put
this in the wider lists to stimulate ideas. For
example at the recent RDA meetings in Barcelona , i
started pushing for getting sponsors to fund dedicate
staff time for OSGeo Live educational materials for UN
and other training/capacity development needs [1] and
i will keep pushing this through all my contacts .<br>
</p>
<br>
The ideas put by Brian are excellent for the
industry/SME ecosystem of OSGeo to start exploring and
expanding. For example Cloud service(s) version of
OSGeo. Time for online version of QGIS has come (it will
be better than Arcgisonline or other properitery ones).
QGISOnline will be a true open platform .<br>
<br>
Suchith<br>
<br>
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<p>[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-March/012009.html"
class="m_-8903259665508142077OWAAutoLink"
id="m_-8903259665508142077LPlnk39949"
target="_blank">
http://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/live-demo/2017-<wbr>March/012009.html</a>
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on behalf of Bas Couwenberg <<a
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href="mailto:sebastic@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">sebastic@xs4all.nl</a>><br>
Sent: 18 April 2017 3:19 PM<br>
To: OSGeo Discussions; live-demo<br>
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live
USB - any SMEs providing this ?<br>
<br>
On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:<br>
> Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat,
an idea to consider<br>
> on this . . . what about . . .<br>
><br>
> having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in
place for<br>
> providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different
devices and<br>
> (portable) services. For example,<br>
><br>
><br>
> * Generating the Thumb Drives<br>
> * These should be generated as needed, based
on our usage<br>
> locally for different events. When we don’t end up
using some of them<br>
> at a particular event, we end up re-writing them
with the newer<br>
> version of OSGeo-Live for the next event. Not
really an economically<br>
> sound model.<br>
> * Setting up something like a Raspberry Pi with
OSGeo-Live.<br>
> Possibly for resale, certainly as a download for
other to install.<br>
> * Setting up a Cloud (OSGE Certified?!) version
of OSGe-Live<br>
> * As has been mentioned before, an application
picker for<br>
> installation of software would go a long ways.<br>
> * There’s a bit of effort required for this
one I’ll grant you,<br>
> but it would certainly go along was toward
promoting OSGeo.<br>
> * Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo.<br>
> * Setting up a Docker . . .<br>
><br>
> Well you get the idea, if your going to pay for
something, may as<br>
> well go for broke. You end up with a one stop shop
and possibly a<br>
> container of sorts for other projects to add in
their own dedicated<br>
> versions of the same sort of devices/services.<br>
<br>
Are you volunteering to implement any of the above?<br>
<br>
These are good suggestions, but without people to do the
work it will<br>
never materialize.<br>
<br>
OSGeo-Live is understaffed as it is, see also:<br>
<br>
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<br>
Kind Regards,<br>
<br>
Bas<br>
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