[Workshops] Re: [Foss4g2008-private] FOSS4G 2008 workshop (and school GIS) PC specs - urgent reply required

[graeme mcferren]

Gavin 

The machine specs sound good (can probably get away with less if
necessary, but no less than 1GB RAM).

Machines must be bootable from USB too

I would say that we worry about the post-conference setup of such
machines at a later point perhaps during the conference as there are
probably a plethora of useful suggestions and discussions. What is NB is
the software image for the conference labs and workshops.

There are lots of application/presentation specific pieces of software
necessary that I am working up a list for with the lab and workshop
presenters, but at a a general level could have on top of what you
suggested:
  
Java, with Tomcat, possibly Eclipse too

Postgres/ PostGIS

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express or 2008 Express (Free to download
and install)

VMWare Player

Firefox

> 
> OSG4W
> 
> OpenOffice
> 
Google Earth or Nasa World Wind? OSSIM Planet?
> 
Gcc/ other Compilers...
> 
> Python


Graeme





On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 13:01 +0200, Gavin Fleming wrote:
> Hi all
> 
>  
> 
> I’m in discussions with a PC supplier (www.sahara.co.za) who might be
> able to give us a purchase price to compete with our hire costs. We
> need to wrap this up ASAP else we’ll be placing a hire order on
> Friday. 
> 
>  
> 
> Primary Use: FOSS4G 2008 workshops and labs.
> 
> End use: OSGeo / GISSA donate the PCs to South African schools for GIS
> education as part of GISSA’s ‘Adopt-a-school’ program. In the Western
> Cape this would be in collaboration with Khanya. 
> 
>  
> 
> Please urgently send me ‘minimum - nice-to-have‘ specs for the PCs if
> you don’t agree with mine:
> 
>  
> 
> Basics: Ethernet, USB, mouse, keyboard, DVD-ROM
> 
>  
> 
> RAM: 1GB - 2GB
> 
> Processor: 32 bit, Pentium dual core 3.5MHz - ?
> 
> Video card: 256MB - ?
> 
> Screen size: 17” CRT - 19” LCD
> 
>  
> 
> OS and Software to be imaged:
> 
> OS: Buy / hire XP licences (Professional?). If we hire them we could
> set them up with Ubuntu and a full GIS and education stack afterwards.
> But XP is necessary for the conference to handle the variety of Wndows
> and non-Windows apps being used. 
> 
> VMWare
> 
> OSG4W
> 
> OpenOffice
> 
> Google Earth
> 
> Gcc
> 
> Python
> 
> …
> 
>  
> 
> Anything else?
> 
>  
> 
> Gavin 
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