[OSGeo-Discuss] [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any SMEs providing this ?

Tue Apr 18 13:47:43 PDT 2017

Hi James, others,

Yes, please do share any tips, tricks and tools you have worked out re 
USB creation (and other tips) in our wiki. A starting point for 
collecting USB ideas is here:

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Quick_Start_for_USB

And if you have ideas which are "production ready", we should include 
them in our main OSGeo-Live Quickstart:
https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/usb_quickstart.html

Thanks,
Cameron

On 19/4/17 1:02 am, James Klassen wrote:
> Not sure if it is useful to others but I wrote a program [1] to help 
> me when Bob wants a bunch of OSGeo-Live thumb drives created.  It 
> isn't by any means perfect or 100% foolproof but it sure makes the job 
> quicker for me.
>
> It takes an image and waits for USBs of the same size to be inserted, 
> then copys the difference between the image and the drive (this is 
> quicker as reads are much faster than writes on the thumb drives I 
> have seen).  It handles multiple thumb drives at a time, so after 
> starting it, it is just down to changing out drives for new ones as 
> they finish copying.
>
> I make the image running OSGeo Live in KVM and let it build a virtual 
> USB at the size of the drives I have on hand.  It can help to have the 
> image on a tmpfs to avoid the source being a bottleneck.
>
> [1] https://github.com/klassenjs/copy_usb 
> <https://github.com/klassenjs/copy_usb>
>
>
> On Apr 18, 2017 9:49 AM, "Suchith Anand" 
> <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     OSGeo Live is one of the excellent success stories of OSGeo and it
>     is important as a community we need to pool our ideas/resources
>     for not only keeping building upon this but expanding for the
>     future. Hence i put this in the wider lists to stimulate ideas.
>     For example at the recent RDA meetings in Barcelona , i started
>     pushing for getting sponsors to fund dedicate staff time for OSGeo
>     Live educational materials for UN and other training/capacity
>     development needs  [1] and i will keep pushing this through all my
>     contacts .
>
>
>     The ideas put by Brian are excellent for the industry/SME
>     ecosystem of OSGeo to start exploring and expanding. For example
>     Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo. Time for online version of QGIS
>     has come (it will be better than Arcgisonline or other properitery
>     ones). QGISOnline will be a true open platform .
>
>     Suchith
>
>
>     [1]
>     http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-March/012009.html
>     <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-March/012009.html>
>
>
>     ________________________________________
>     From: Live-demo <live-demo-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:live-demo-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of Bas
>     Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl <mailto:sebastic at xs4all.nl>>
>     Sent: 18 April 2017 3:19 PM
>     To: OSGeo Discussions; live-demo
>     Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Mass production of OSGeo Live USB - any
>     SMEs providing this ?
>
>     On 2017-04-18 15:55, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
>     > Just to add to the mix, and stir the pot somewhat, an idea to
>     consider
>     > on this . . . what about . . .
>     >
>     > having some sort of support stack/infrastructure in place for
>     > providing the OSGeo-Live as a bunch of different devices and
>     > (portable) services.  For example,
>     >
>     >
>     >   *   Generating the Thumb Drives
>     >      *   These should be generated as needed, based on our usage
>     > locally for different events.  When we don’t end up using some
>     of them
>     > at a particular event, we end up re-writing them with the newer
>     > version of OSGeo-Live for the next event.  Not really an
>     economically
>     > sound model.
>     >   *   Setting up something like a Raspberry Pi with OSGeo-Live.
>     > Possibly for resale, certainly as a download for other to install.
>     >   *   Setting up a Cloud (OSGE Certified?!) version of OSGe-Live
>     >   *   As has been mentioned before, an application picker for
>     > installation of software would go a long ways.
>     >      *   There’s a bit of effort required for this one I’ll
>     grant you,
>     > but it would certainly go along was toward promoting OSGeo.
>     >   *   Cloud service(s) version of OSGeo.
>     >   *   Setting up a Docker . . .
>     >
>     > Well you get the idea,  if your going to pay for something, may as
>     > well go for broke.  You end up with a one stop shop and possibly a
>     > container of sorts for other projects to add in their own dedicated
>     > versions of the same sort of devices/services.
>
>     Are you volunteering to implement any of the above?
>
>     These are good suggestions, but without people to do the work it will
>     never materialize.
>
>     OSGeo-Live is understaffed as it is, see also:
>
>     http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-April/012031.html
>     <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2017-April/012031.html>
>
>
>     Kind Regards,
>
>     Bas
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