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We are starting to build the 6.0 <a href="http://live.osgeo.org/">OSGeo-Live</a>
DVD which will be released in September 2012, ready for FOSS4G 2012
as well as many other spatial conferences. This upcoming version
will be built upon the stable Xubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS)
release. Documentation will be translated into eight languages, now
also including Chinese and Catalan.
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<dt>Any new applications?
</dt>
<dd>We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects
to OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or add extra
translations, or anyone who has ideas on how we should shape the
upcoming release.
</dd>
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Key Priorities for next release</h2>
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<dt> Package Updates
</dt>
<dd>Migrate to Xubuntu 12.04 LTS
</dd>
<dd>Update and test latest stable software releases
</dd>
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<dt> Migrating to OpenJDK</dt>
<dd>Due to Oracles changed license conditions for Sun-Java, Ubuntu
users are now strongly encouraging to move to OpenJDK instead of
Sun Java, due to both improvements in OpenJDK, and difficult
licencing conditions with Sun Java. As such, we will be
endevouring to move all java based applications to OpenJDK
(instead of Sun Java).
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<dt> Disk Space
</dt>
<dd>We have reached our DVD size limits, and need to be creative
about saving space and disciplined in not losing space to
duplication. We hope to ship a single Java and single Tomcat
version this time, in addition to further consolidation around
shared sample datasets.
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<dt> Testing
</dt>
<dd>With Quality being a key focus area for us, we need lots of
help with testing.
</dd>
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Key Milestones</h2>
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<dd>10 Jul 2012 Feature Freeze
</dd>
<dd>07 Aug 2012 User Acceptance Test (all Apps installed and
working)
</dd>
<dd>28 Aug 2012 Final ISO sent to printers
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full schedule</a>
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About OSGeo-Live</h2>
OSGeo-live is an <a href="http://xubuntu.org/">XUbuntu</a> based
distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a
Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a
wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing
anything.
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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
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">http://www.lisasoft.com</a>
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