[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Re: The Easy steps to get your project on the FOSS4G Live DVD

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks Hamish for sending this email to a number of lists, (including 
the osgeo discuss list),

It is great to see so many people getting involved.

I encourage others who have stepped up to write a script for your 
application to also send an email to the discuss list saying something 
like "Yes, we/I'm working on adding a script for the LiveDVD too. ... 
<some details about what you are doing, or why you think it is a good 
idea or ...>"

The success of this LiveDVD project is based upon lots of people all 
contributing a little bit, and hearing about others involvement will 
encourage individuals to get involved.

Hamish wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> As previously mentioned by Cameron, in preparation for the upcoming
> OSGeo conference in Sydney build scripts for free & open source
> software are being collected for inclusion on the FOSS4G live DVD +
> virtual machine image.
>
> The disc will be handed out to all conference delegates, and so is a
> really nice showcase + exposure opportunity for your favourite GeoFOSS
> project.
>
>      http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_28
>
> Feature Freeze is in less than a week, but it is mostly trivial to
> add packages already built for Debian/Ubuntu.
>
> Scripts can both install the app and fetch + install + setup demo
> user data. See here for some examples:
>   https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/bin/
>
>
> I have already added scripts for GRASS[1], GpsDrive (+ OSM maps for
> navigating around downtown Sydney)[2], and MB-System[3]. Other
> contributions are streaming as well. (see above URL)
>
>
> [1] GRASS GIS: 6.4rc including Spearfish + North Carolina sample
> datasets.
>
> [2] gpsdrive: Using a custom debuild for latest version as official
> debian package for gpsdrive lags years(!) behind. Mapnik+PostGIS
> support for auto tile generation is already built in, but a OSM/
> PostGIS/SQL expert is needed to setup/extract just the Sydney area
> from world coastlines.shp + australia.osm otherwise the dataset takes
> up too much room on the disc to justify inclusion.  (help wanted)
> I've got that PostGIS DB running locally for the whole of Australia,
> it works nicely. Now that I have the GpsDrive+OSM projections issues
> sorted out in GpsDrive SVN I'll patch in the bugfix & add the static
> CBD map tiles to the OSGeo build "real soon now".
>
> [3] mbsystem: not activated because I haven't figured out how to get it
> to build/link with shared libraries yet. With static libs it takes
> up 300mb, which is too much for the disc. (help wanted)
>
>
>
>
> A volunteer to add a QGIS build script (and if at all possible QGIS<->
> GRASS plugin) is badly needed! It would be a true shame to not include
> that*; it is probably not so bad, see the gpsdrive build script for
> automatic .deb package building from SVN using "debuild".
> [*] just as it is a shame that that qgis still isn't officially packaged
> for Debian/Ubuntu. (DebianGIS is recruiting for volunteers! We badly
> need to find someone to take over PostGIS duties as well.)
>
>
> A nice side effect of all this is that for anything still unpackaged for
> Debian/Ubuntu, we can use these as templates for a new package.
> e.g. in DebianGIS SVN I've just added the beginnings of official MB-
> System packaging:
>   http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-grass/packages/mbsystem/trunk/debian/
> (help wanted here too:)
>
> Also, it is my personal goal that these scripts can be worked into
> a live-helper build structure for fully automated builds of both the
> DebianGIS and OSGeo Live-Demo Live images using whatever ubuntu/debian
> flavour/release/media you like:
>   http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-grass/packages/debian-gis/
>   https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/livedvd/live-helper/
>   http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/live-helper
> With a good collection of build scripts this should be fairly easy.
>
>
>
> regards & a big thanks to all helpers so far,
> Hamish Bowman
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