[OSGeo-Discuss] packaging FOSS GIS for Ubuntu in education

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Firman,

Glad to know about FOSS4G activity at ITB.
Maybe you happen to know Soni Darmawan too.
He did som GRASS modules for our JICA training
and was using Ubuntu Virtualbox. Think Soni
is from ITB too.

Happy to see all the recent activity on
packaging OSGeo software stack.

Venka

Firman Hadi wrote:
> Hello Frans,
> 
> We have already make a remastered Ubuntu Live CD, DVD and ISO file
> that includes geospatial softwares like GRASS, PostGIS, QGis,
> Mapserver etc. for learning Remote Sensing and GIS Dept. Geodesy and
> Geomatics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia. Just put the DVD on
> the computer, restart and you can learn FOSS GIS instantly. The ISO
> file can also be used with VirtualBox, if we don't want to install it
> in another partition. But still, the student seems to need a little
> bit of time to use it. It is different with proprietary softwares
> they've been using. The biggest problem in education is only a few
> people (teachers, professors, etc.) that encourage the use of free
> and open source software in education.
>