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

[Cameron Shorter]

Jáchym, Jeff, thanks for reminding us of gis.lab. Martin Landa and Ivana 
Mincik, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on collaboration.

Doug, I assume you already know of http://live.osgeo.org and you might 
want to watch the osgeolive mailing list as we discuss this. 
https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo

Warm regards, Cameron

On 7/2/17 1:56 am, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> web: http://web.gislab.io/
>
> mailing list: https://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gis.lab
>
>
> -jeff 
On 7/2/17 1:38 am, Newcomb, Doug wrote:
> I'm interested. Link to website?
>
> Doug
>
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Jáchym Čepický 
> <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com <mailto: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/
>             <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
>             <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Jachym Cepicky
>     e-mail: jachym.cepicky at gmail.com <mailto:jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
>     twitter: @jachymc
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