[OSGeo Africa] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 6.5 released

[Gavin Fleming]

OSGeo-Live 6.5 released

26 February 2013

Version 6.5 of the OSGeo-Live GIS software collection 
<http://live.osgeo.org> has been released, ready for distribution at a 
large number of geospatial conferences and workshops from around the world.


    Release Highlights

Applications
    Geospatial applications on the disc have been updated to their
    latest stable releases. 

Increased quality
    With each release, the quality of OSGeo-Live is steadily increasing.
    This release has seen a concerted review of OSGeo-Live quickstarts,
    ensuring the every step of quickstarts have been tested, and
    increasing consistency and readability of the quickstart documentation. 

Translations
    OSGeo-Live is now translated into Russian. Translations are
    available for: Catalan, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek,
    Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian (new), Spanish 


    About OSGeo-Live

OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual 
Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux that is pre-configured with a wide 
variety of robust open source geospatial software. The applications can 
be trialled without installing anything on your computer, simply by 
booting the computer from a DVD or USB drive, or running in a Virtual 
Machine environment. An accompanying collection of lightning 
presentations 
<http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/promo/trunk/en/presentation/> 
introduces the breadth and depth of Free and Open Source for Geospatial 
(*FOSS4G*).

/Homepage:/

  * http://live.osgeo.org

/OSGeo-Live includes:/

  * Fifty (*50*) Quality Geospatial Open Source applications installed
    and pre-configured
  * Over a gigabyte of free world maps and geodata
  * One page overview /and/ quick-start guides for every application
  * Overviews of key OGC standards
  * Translations for multiple languages


    Credits

Over 140 people have directly helped with OSGeo-Live packaging, 
documenting and translating, and thousands have been involved in 
building the packaged software.

Packagers, documenters and translators include:

Activity Workshop, Agustín Dí­ez, Aikaterini Kapsampeli, Alan 
Boudreault, Alessandro Furieri, Alexander Bruy, Alexander Kleshnin, 
Alexander Muriy, Alexandre Dube, Alexey Ardyakov, Alex Mandel, Amy Gao, 
Andrea Antonello, Andrea Yanza, Andrey Syrokomskiy, Angelos Tzotsos, 
Anna Muñoz, Anne Ghisla, Antonio Falciano, Anton Novichikhin, Anton 
Patrushev, Argyros Argyridis, Assumpcio Termens, Astrid Emde, Barry 
Rowlingson, Benjamin Pross, Brian Hamlin, Bruno Binet, Cameron Shorter, 
Christophe Tufféry, Christos Iossifidis, Cristhian Pin, Damian 
Wojsław, Dane Springmeyer, Daniel Kastl, Daria Svidzinska, David 
Mateos, Denis Rykov, Diego González, Dimitar Misev, Dmitry Baryshnikov, 
Dominik Helle, Edgar Soldin, Eike Hinderk Jrrens, Elena Mezzini, Eric 
Lemoine, Estela Llorente, Etienne Delay, Etienne Dube, Evgeny Nikulin, 
Fran Boon, François Prunayre, Frank Gasdorf, Frank Warmerdam, Gavin 
Treadgold, Giuseppe Calamita, Grald Fenoy, Grigory Rozhentsov, Hamish 
Bowman, Haruyuki Seki, Henry Addo, Hernan Olivera, Howard Butler, 
Hyeyeong Choe, Ian Turton, Ilya Filippov, Jackie Ng, Jan Drewnak, Javier 
Sánchez, Jesús Gómez, Jim Klassen, Jing Wang, Jinsongdi Yu, Jody 
Garnett, Johan Van de Wauw, Jorge Arévalo, Jorge Sanz, José Antonio 
Canalejo, Judit Mays, Klokan Petr Pridal, Kristof Lange, kuzkok, Lance 
McKee, Lars Lingner, Luca Delucchi, Lucía Sanjaime, Mage Whopper, 
Manuel Grizonnet, Marc-André Barbeau, Marco Curreli, Marco Puppin, Marc 
Torres, Margherita Di Leo, Maria Vakalopoulou, Mario Andino, Mark 
Leslie, Massimo Di Stefano, Mauricio Miranda, Mauricio Pazos, Maxim 
Dubinin, Michaël Michaud, Michael Owonibi, Micha Silver, Mike Adair, 
Milena Nowotarska, Nacho Varela, Nadiia Gorash, Nathaniel V. Kelso, Ned 
Horning, Nobusuke Iwasaki, Oliver Tonnhofer, Oscar Fonts, Ã’scar Fonts, 
Otto Dassau, Pasquale Di Donato, Paul Meems, Pavel, Pedro-Juan Ferrer, 
Pirmin Kalberer, Raf Roset, Ricardo Pinho, Roald de Wit, Roberto 
Antolín, Roger Veciana, Ruth Schoenbuchner, Samuel Mesa, Sergey 
Grachev, Sergio Baños, Simon Cropper, Simon Pigot, Stefan A. Tzeggai, 
Stefan Hansen, Stefan Steiniger, Stephan Meissl, Steve Lime, Thierry 
Badard, Thomas Baschetti, Thomas Gratier, Tom Kralidis, Toshikazu Seto, 
Trevor Wekel, Valenty González, Vera, Xianfeng Song, Yoichi Kayama, 
Zhengfan Lin


    Sponsoring organisations

  * The Open Source Geospatial Foundation <http://www.osgeo.org> *OSGeo*
    provides the primary development & hosting infrastructure and
    personnel for the OSGeo-Live project, and infrastructure for many of
    the software projects themselves.

  * *LISAsoft* provides sustaining resources and staff toward the
    management and packaging of software onto the Live DVD.
    http://www.lisasoft.com
  * *Information Center for the Environment (ICE) at the University of
    California, Davis* provides hardware resources and development
    support to the OSGeo Live project. http://ice.ucdavis.edu
  * *Remote Sensing Laboratory at the National Technical University of
    Athens*, provides hardware resources and development support to the
    OSGeo-Live project. http://www.ntua.gr/index_en.html
  * The *DebianGIS* and *UbuntuGIS* teams provide and quality-assure
    many of the core packages. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis and
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGIS