[FOSS4G-Oceania] FOSS4G Workshops and OSGeo-Live

[Martin Tomko]

All good and valid points, but:
- there are no workshop computers (addressing the point of: " installing 
    the OSGeo-Live on all workshop computers ") - we will not be supplying computer labs, just spaces. People must bring their own devices.
- Followng from there, " encouraging workshop presenters to make use of OSGeo-Live/ encourage all participants to install OSGeo-Live onto the 
    laptop before coming to the conference " - these are points that I would not want to tackle centrally, enforce, or coordinate. And what if a workshop is on a "spatial OSS ecosystem on MAC OS?" (. 

Anyway, what I think may be a good thing and doable, is to indeed encourage the Workshop organisers to consider OSGEO-Live as their platform of choice in their instructions to their participants.

I see the workshops as a decentralized set of events sharing a space provided by the conference ( this is what is the case at most conferences I go to). It is the responsibility of the individual workshop organisers to assure their own running of the event beyond core logistics ( rooms, projectors, catering).

My 2c
M. 


On 22/6/18, 2:05 pm, "FOSS4G-Oceania on behalf of Cameron Shorter" <foss4g-oceania-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

    Am I right in understanding that workshop participants will be expected 
    to bring their own laptop? Consistent feedback in Lessons Learned from 
    past FOSS4G workshops is that getting a classroom full of 
    "bring-your-own-laptops" is both error prone and time consuming, often 
    taking the first hour of the workshop.
    
    Advice usually comes back to "it is best to have all the computers 
    pre-installed with software required". This puts a hefty burden on 
    workshop organisors and presenters to source computers and set them all 
    up with software.
    
    Something that many of the conferences have started doing is installing 
    the OSGeo-Live on all workshop computers. OSGeo-Live is a Lubuntu linux 
    distribution which comes pre-installed with ~ 50 of the best OSGeo 
    applications, along with sample data. It can either be booted from a 
    USB, or installed into a Virtual Machine. I'd suggest that we should be 
    considering this for our workshops too, and encouraging workshop 
    presenters to make use of OSGeo-Live.
    
    We should also encourage all participants to install OSGeo-Live onto the 
    laptop before coming to the conference, and we should have a stack of 
    spare OSGeo-Live USBs floating around for those people who haven't got 
    themselves setup.
    
    (I should declare here my personal vested interest in OSGeo-Live, as I'm 
    one of the founders of the project - it started as part of the FOSS4G 
    2009 conference in Sydney).
    
    -- 
    Cameron Shorter
    Technology Demystifier
    Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
    
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