[Live-demo] OSGEO Live GIS , ideas to share - Poseidon

[Cameron Shorter]

Hello Christian,

Nice to meet you and hear about your work with Poseidon.
I understand the amount of work involved in creating an Ubuntu 
distribution on your own. I've been involved in building a Geospatial 
distribution for a couple of years and ~ 4 major distributions now.

Initially we did this through hero work of primarily one developer, who 
installed everything, but that became unsustainable. So instead we asked 
all geopspatial projects to write us a bash install script, then we 
built a process to install and build the live DVD.

See a summary at:
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2009/10/arramgong-gis-live-dvd-off-to-printers.html

our wiki here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

and our build process here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build

Using this same formula, we could help you build Poseidon Linux  - and 
in particular, some of your packages already have install scripts within 
our distribution.

Does this interest you?

Also of note, within a couple of days, we plan to put out a press 
release, encouraging projects to get involved in building our next 
distribution.

It would be great to also mention how Poseidon and Arramagong projects 
are working together toward the next release.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_1
We could include

Christian Ferreira wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> Poseidon is going to be updated to Ubuntu 9.10. The work is on the way.
>
> Actually, I have two versions nearly 100% ready based on Ubuntu 9.04. 
> But took me so much time, that now this Ubuntu has just less than 1 
> year of security updates, so I decided for giving up. So, these 
> Poseidon will never be released.
>
> The problem, is that Poseidon since from the beginning, Poseidon is a 
> distro of a man alone. The team help with the website and sometimes 
> writing documentation... but, the distro related work is done just by me.
>
> So, sometimes with the cruises, work and family is hard to find tons 
> of time to produce real polished and good Poseidon release.
>
> Anyway... I new version is under construction... Actually, I am 
> preparing first a minimal version of Poseidon Linux just with the GIS 
> and MB System. This will be ready until end of December (I will work 
> during Xmas hollidays on it).
>
> Well, I'm always glad to have help or ideas...
>
> Unfortunately, Poseidon Linux doesn't has the infrastructure necessary 
> to be a internet shared project. And I never could find the resources 
> to do so.
>
> PS: Please, Hamish and others... in the future (if possible), write me 
> just to this email... the "chris for lists" email gets dozens of 
> emails (and I use filter that sort them), so any personal mail is not 
> filtered and may get lost among them.
>
> Best regards,
> Christian
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:hamish_b at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hamish:
>     > >> you might mave a look at the Poseidon live dvd project.
>
>     Massimo:
>     > > I know it, it's a great project!
>     > > from poseido i see some sw title i don't know first.
>     > > But seems the last release is dated 2008.
>     > > Maybe for educational purpose is not needed
>     > > to have the last sw version installed?
>     > > btw, just to know if it was a topic of interests.
>
>     Cameron Shorter wrote:
>     > http://www.en.poseidonlinux.org/
>     > This project looks very similar to what we are doing and
>     > there is great potential for us to collaborate. Does anyone
>     > know the developers there yet and want to invite them to
>     > work together with us?
>
>     any thoughts Christian?
>
>
>
>     regards,
>     Hamish
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Christian Ferreira
> Oceanographer
> Marum - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
> Bremen - Germany
>
> Poseidon Linux team
> http://www.poseidonlinux.org
>
> Poseidon Linux team
> http://www.poseidonlinux.org


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Cameron Shorter
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