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Jonathan,<br>
Your skillsets and offers to help get more and more impressive with
every email!<br>
The current status of Spanish (and other) translations is here:<br>
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<br>
Feel free to start translating any of the currently untranslated
Overview documents.<br>
Process is here documented here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Translate">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Translate</a><br>
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On 24/11/10 10:56, Jonathan Roach wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi
Hernan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I
can provide assistance in language translation as well I am fluid
Spanish speaker and proficient writer at it as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">So
please let me know! If you need some help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" lang="EN-US">Jonathan
K. Roach<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
lang="EN-US">Geographic and Land Information Systems Officer
<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
lang="EN-US">Division: Land Use and Sustainability<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
lang="EN-US">Branch: Strategic Land Use Planning (Design and Technical
Group/GIS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
lang="EN-US">Manly Council<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
lang="EN-US">Phone: (02) 9976 - 1612<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"
lang="EN-US">E-Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jonathan.roach@manly.nsw.gov.au">jonathan.roach@manly.nsw.gov.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"
lang="EN-US"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:live-demo-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">live-demo-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:live-demo-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">mailto:live-demo-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Hernan Olivera<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 24 November 2010 10:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Cameron Shorter<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:live-demo@lists.osgeo.org">live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Live-demo] Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Hi<br>
<br>
Remember my call for OSgeo-server! I want to contribute to this, and to
make spanish translations of anything. By the way, my work now needs to
install the stack on RedHat/CentOS. I'm working on it.<br>
<br>
saludos<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2010/11/23 Cameron Shorter <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have had a few different people express an
interest developing an OSGeo-Live version optimised for installation.<br>
<br>
I suspect that if timing is right for people interested in putting in
the effort required, that we could create such a variant for this (or
maybe next) release. Over the next few days, I'll dig through my emails
and gauge interest from potentially interested parties.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<br>
On 24/11/10 09:25, Alex Mandel wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jonathan,<br>
<br>
I understand the point, and maybe what we're searching for here is the<br>
appropriate way to direct the interest. Personally I've been running a<br>
64bit workstation since 2005 exclusively on Ubuntu. I use the ubuntugis<br>
repos all the time to pull 64bit builds of most of the desktop<br>
applications, and 64bit jvm for running java apps.<br>
<br>
There is a high likelihood that our build actually works in a 64bit<br>
environment without any tweaks (maybe a few apps that are from source<br>
might get stuck). Given that, the OSGeo-live project's focus is<br>
specifically on the DVD, USB, VM usage as a way to introduce people to<br>
the software.<br>
<br>
If you would like to build and distribute a VM or DVD of the same stuff<br>
for 64bit go for it. If it's done with our scripts and in coordination<br>
with us we can also host the downloads. At some point it may even be<br>
easy for us to build both at the same time(I'm researching it right<br>
now). But given the larger footprint of 64 bit binaries and the<br>
likelihood of incompatible machines we just don't have the people to<br>
push that direction. Maybe we can make an svn branch to hold an minor<br>
adjustments needed for 64bit building and you can work in there?<br>
<br>
Also you might want to look at our friend project <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://gisvm.com/" target="_blank">
http://gisvm.com/</a><br>
where the focus is a GIS workstation build more than a demo. Or at<br>
Poseidon Linux <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/" target="_blank">
http://sites.google.com/site/poseidonlinux/</a> which is<br>
starting to work with us too. This really starts to get at the idea of a<br>
prepackage distro for GIS workstations. We are not a distro and never<br>
plan to be, though OSGeo metapackages for ubuntu are not out of the<br>
question (One click install of everything).<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Alex<br>
<br>
<br>
On 11/23/2010 02:02 PM, Jonathan Roach wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hamish,<br>
<br>
You make a very compelling point.<br>
<br>
however my intentions of experimenting with a 64 bit environment are to
assist people buying estate of the art hardware to get their value for
the money.<br>
<br>
now days users are buying estate of the art computer hardware
(computers with multiple processing power), but there are very few
software applications that can support a 64 bit environment. most
application currently available can work in a 64 bit environment but
they still do not use effectively the hardware resources available.
Mostly, the Open Source Community have higher chances of making 64-bit
software application. This will mean value for money for the low budget
customer. Because developers of open source community are not subject
to the politics and marketing strategies that a private company is
subject to, Open source Software effectively working in a 64 bit
environment will give the open source community the upper hand over the
private companies making open source application more appealing to a
low budget customer and others in the hunt for new software
technologies.<br>
<br>
I work for a local government and our service provider, for mapping
purposes, is Pitney Bowes MapInfo. MapInfo is great product but we have
reach it's limits, as organizations that i work for is becoming more
aware of how important GIS is for its core business, request are
increasing. these are logical and reasonable requests but the program
MapInfo has reached its limit and we are starting to run out of
solutions. When we brought this to the attention of the Pitney Bowes
Mapinfo, they simply did not have an answer and our request was thrown
to the too hard basket. because they are not concern with problems of
customer where they are not making any money on.<br>
<br>
and so as Cameron Shorter has made a point on several presentations of
his we are stack with that vendor. but if open source software could
offer a more appealing solution, a low budget customer, such as
ourselves, could benefit from these solutions offered by the Open
Source community, plus the support from companies such as Lisa-soft,
would make it very appealing to customers.<br>
<br>
specially if it attracts the eye of a technically knowledgeable IT
Manger of any organization who is starting to run out of options.<br>
<br>
but In response to your statements, Hamish, the live DVD is a
demonstration only, if a customer signs up to purchase the software
from the Open Source Community they will be installing it locally in
their machines. not running it from the DVD.<br>
<br>
I think the Live DVD is a great idea for demonstration purposes only
but nothing else. but it should provide the option of a 64-bit
environment. if the software can operate well in the 64 bit environment
then as you well state it, Hamish, 32 bit PCs will be around for the
next 5-7 years, working in a 64-bit environment puts the Open Source
Community Software Applications 5 to 7 years ahead of the market making
us yet more appealing to not only to the low budget user but also to
every one else.<br>
<br>
and for individual in the GIS industry opens a door of knowledge that
not many of us would currently dare to step into because it is too
risky.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Jonathan K. Roach<br>
Geographic and Land Information Systems Officer<br>
Division: Land Use and Sustainability<br>
Branch: Strategic Land Use Planning (Design and Technical Group/GIS)<br>
Manly Council<br>
Phone: (02) 9976 - 1612<br>
E-Mail: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jonathan.roach@manly.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank">jonathan.roach@manly.nsw.gov.au</a><br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Hamish [mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:hamish_b@yahoo.com" target="_blank">hamish_b@yahoo.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 3:13 PM<br>
To: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:live-demo@lists.osgeo.org"
target="_blank">live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a>; Jonathan Roach<br>
Cc: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:oo7bone@bigfoot.com"
target="_blank">oo7bone@bigfoot.com</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Introduction<br>
<br>
Jonathan wrote:<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Particularly I would like to test in a 64 bit
environment<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hi and welcome.<br>
<br>
<br>
for what it's worth& as is my understanding, despite common<br>
perceptions and advertising campaigns, 64bit is not magically<br>
faster and better than 32bit. fundamentally it just means that<br>
the addressable space goes from 2^32 bytes (a couple of gigs) to<br>
2^64 (computer with that limit hasn't been invented yet).<br>
Integers can count higher by using twice the number of bits to<br>
store themselves in, and that's all.<br>
<br>
So 64bit is great for dealing with huge geo-data files (LFS),<br>
although most modern 32bit operating systems can deal with eg<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2gb files. WindowsXP famously doesn't reach it's
theoretical<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">limit of 4gb RAM, and the program saving/reading
the file has<br>
to use the right variable type (eg off_t) in the memory address<br>
to be 32bit LFS-capable as well.<br>
<br>
actually if huge files/memory requirements are not an issue for<br>
you, you might very well be better off sticking with 32-bit as<br>
it only needs to push half of the I/O bandwidth!<br>
<br>
On the other hand, while amd64 CPUs runs 32bit quite well, the<br>
CPUs will, with time, be tuned for 64bit instruction sets.<br>
..maybe the increased number of registers helps more than<br>
anything else to unclog processing bottlenecks?<br>
<br>
<br>
So, unless working with really massive datasets is a goal for<br>
our demo DVD, I'm not entirely convinced that it gains us<br>
anything useful, but it does make the dvd unusable on xx% of<br>
the computers out there, and like it or not, 32 bit PCs will<br>
be around for the next 5-7 years.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
Hamish<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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Cameron Shorter<br>
Geospatial Solutions Manager<br>
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050<br>
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254<br>
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Think Globally, Fix Locally<br>
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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
Think Globally, Fix Locally
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