<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hi everyone,<br><br>After several people asking about the differences between GISVM and OSGeo Live projects, I must clarify some points, specially to the members of this list.<br><br>As some of you probably know, GISVM concept was used, with my direct participation, on the building process of FOSS4G 2009 LiveDVD (Arramagong). Since then, that concept is used for building the OSGeo Live, that resulted on the LiveDVD for FOSS4G 2010 and is growing fast with excellent results.<br><br>GISVM was launched in 2008, an independent project, not sponsored by OSGeo, and is dedicated exclusive for providing "Virtual Machines" for Open Source GIS users.<br><br>These different goals results on completely different products!<br><br>But, these two projects have much in common, and can help each other. <br><br>Just like
GISVM helped OSGeo to build it's LiveDVD. <br>GISVM can receive help from OSGeo Live by being able to use their huge number of install scripts.<br><br>And I can see several other ways of collaboration.<br><br>For start, I would suggest to all "install script" developers to use "GISVM Base" for creating and testing their scrips.<br>If it works on GISVM Base it will probably work on OSGeo Live.<br><br>To include your applications on GISVM Base, it is as simple as adapting your current OSGeo Live install script.<br><br>GISVM is a GPL Free project and is hosted by sourgeforge: <br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gisvm/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/gisvm/</a></span><br>The current Base scripts are available at: <br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://gisvm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gisvm/branches/gisvm1010base/">http://gisvm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gisvm/branches/gisvm1010base/</a></span><br><br>If you want to
participate on it, just contact me. <br>Your contribution will be much appreciated!<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Ricardo Pinho<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://gisvm.com">http://gisvm.com</a></span><br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">De:</span></b> Ricardo Pinho <rpinho_eng@yahoo.com.br><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> live-demo@lists.osgeo.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviadas:</span></b> Quinta-feira, 7 de Abril de 2011 1:40:38<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Assunto:</span></b> [Live-demo] [Annouce] GISVM Base<br></font><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"
id="internal-source-marker_0.2572014375952498">Dear all,</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We are proud to announce the new “GISVM BASE”. </span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Available now for FREE DOWNLOAD at: </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://gisvm.com/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000099;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://gisvm.com</span></a><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">GISVM
("GIS Virtual Machine") is a Ubuntu Linux distribution for GIS users,
packaged as a virtual machine, a completely isolated computer that can
be run in a window inside your current operating system.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> </span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">This
new BASE edition, based on a minimum Ubuntu 10.10 installation,
provides the user with simple Double Click install scripts for an
unlimited possible number of open-source GIS packages.This way, users
are FREE to build their own GISVM by installing the desired GIS
packages.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> By the time of this announcement these are the available install scripts: </span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- Quantum GIS / Grass </span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- uDIG</span><br><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- gvSIG</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- OpenJump</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- Kosmo</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- R</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- GeoServer</span><br><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- GeoMajas</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We plan to keep adding more install scripts, depending on the users feedback and request.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">PLEASE REGISTER ON THE GISVM USER MAILLING LIST and help us improve this new version: </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gisvm-users"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000099;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gisvm-users</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">We would also appreciate it if you SPREAD THE WORD. Put it in your blog, forum, facebook, twitter, webpage, and so on.</span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Thank you,</span><br><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Ricardo Pinho</span></div>
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