[OSGeo-Discuss] Could we make OSGeo and OSGeo-Live available as remote desktops from the cloud?

[Newcomb, Doug]

I'm interested. Link to website?

Doug

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Jáchym Čepický <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Cameron,
>
> this is exactly what GIS.Lab project is about - booting from the network,
> shared resources...
>
> Martin Landa and Ivana Mincik (cced) could tell more
>
> Jachym
>
>
>
> Dne 3.2.2017 v 22:14 Cameron Shorter napsal(a):
>
> Does anyone have experience or suggestions in getting OSGeo packages
>> (ideally OSGeo-Live) working as a remote desktop from a cloud platform?
>>
>> As per Chris Barnett's emails, the FOSS4G 2017 would like to get it
>> working for the global FOSS4G.
>>
>>
>> On 3/2/17 2:38 am, Chris Barnett wrote:
>>
>>> OSGeo-Live USB sticks will be available to [FOSS4G 2017] workshop
>>> participants, but we’d also like to make cloud-based instances
>>> available via remote desktop. I’ve run into a couple of technical
>>> issues with this and think it would be very useful to draw on your
>>> collective knowledge and experience. What would be the best/most
>>> appropriate way to go about this?
>>>
>> On 4/2/17 4:08 am, Chris Barnett wrote:
>>
>>> I’m really just at the phase of ascertaining feasibility. My attempt
>>> to import the OSGeo Live VM to AWS failed because the AWS import
>>> process didn’t support Lubuntu. I think that I probably can get it to
>>> work on other cloud hosts, but I haven’t had a chance to test yet. For
>>> remote access to the desktop I’ve been using xrdp and tigervnc. This
>>> also looks like an interesting option:
>>> http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/, as it allows remote access via
>>> the browser.
>>>
>>> I think it would be fantastic if a cloud version could be reused
>>> beyond FOSS4G. Something like a docker image could be a nice solution,
>>> as it would be portable across many cloud providers and could also be
>>> installed locally.
>>>
>>
>> On 3/2/17 6:25 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> With regards to getting OSGeo-Live working in the cloud, I think that
>>> would be an excellent goal to work on. Back in 2009 some people did
>>> actually get OSGeo-Live working on one of the early cloud platforms
>>> (called click2try which is now out of business).
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35
>>>
>>>
> --
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