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Hello all:<br>
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I recently gave a short tutorial/demonstration of some FOSS GIS
software to a group of entomologists. I'm very pleased to say that the
sessions went especially well since I used OSGeo-Live USB sticks. I had
prepared in advance a slightly modified version of the system in a VM
on my laptop, with extra data tuned to the participants in the
conference, and then created an ISO using the scripts made by the
OSGeo-Live developers. Then I "burned" 15 USB sticks (using unetbootin)
to be handed out at the conference. <br>
Those participants with GIS experience were, of course, astounded with
the breadth and capabilities of FOSS GIS. And their experience was
purely due to the OSGeo-Live system with everything packaged together.
The others, seeing this kind of software for the first time, dove right
in and worked thru the exercises with none of the glitches that usually
accompany installing on a variety of user's machines. Everyone is
walking away with a good taste for FOSS in general, and the
possibilities of employing FOSS GIS software at their home institutions.<br>
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So, another warm thanks for all the excellent work put in here!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Micha<br>
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/2011 23:47, Cameron Shorter wrote:
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I've just received the following comments on my blog post:<br>
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<p> Don't you know other than http download sources for
OSgeo-Live 5? It looks like down :-( And I couldn't find torrents with
5 :-((( only with 4.5 </p>
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<p> Cameron & OSGeo-Live team - thanks for doing this. I was
standing there looking at the barrier to entry (finding, evaluating,
and building the whole stack) and steeling myself to just do it. Then I
saw an RSS feed from FOSS4G that suggested I could just download and VM
the whole pile using OSGeo. nice!<br>
-tim </p>
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Cameron Shorter
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