[Live-demo] Thinking about OSGeo-Live 5.0 (the FOSS4G 2011 release)

[Alex Mandel]

Just a quick note, I also submitted a talk for FOSS4G.
"OSGeo Live : Gauging our Outreach Efforts"

I plan to highlight the newest achievements on 5.0 along with download
log analysis and hopefully survey results (assuming I can get the user
survey up this month).

More on that and the other Topics later.

Thanks,
Alex

On 05/01/2011 04:47 PM, maplabs at light42.com wrote:
> Hi Cameron, All-
>...
> 
>   I imagine things will be very active in preparation for FOSS4G
> It will be good to see the LiveDVD used by presenters, and also
> a very big chance to get feedback from the core constituency
> 
>   I am susceptible to overload, so it will be good to get the LiveDVD 
> in order and freeze.. and then subsequently, have a strategy for a
> "live" Live,
>  that can take the inevitable last minute requests and such.. Since that is
> so important, I think it should  be given ample time and
> attention allocations..
> I noticed there is a proposed talk at FOSS4G about "turning the LiveDVD
> into a server".. however, I also noticed that there are about 5x more
> proposed
> talks than there is time for.. so no idea if that will be presented
> 
>
>   -Brian
> 
> ==
> Brian Hamlin
> planetwork.net
> OSGeo California Chapter
> (415) 717-4462 cell
> 
> On Mon, 02 May 2011 08:56:23 +1000, Cameron Shorter  wrote:
> As per our schedule [1], it is now time to start our planning for our
>> next osgeo-live 5.0 release.
>> Before I put out a general press release, I'm interested to hear ideas
>> on what we should focus on for this upcoming release.
>> My thoughts are:
>> * We have quickstarts for all (bar one) of our projects now, however
>> we haven't had extensive review of all these quickstarts yet. I'd like
>> to see critical review of all quickstarts this time around.
>> * Many of the documents are translated to varying levels of
>> completeness. It would be great to see that consolidated in this release.
>> * As always, we will probably get a couple more projects included.
>> * Toward the end of the last release cycle, there was discussion about
>> the licence of osgeo-live documentation, and the DVD itself. I'd like
>> to see that discussed and resolved.
>> * Since we have quickstarts, it would be achievable for someone to
>> record each quickstart, as a short video. This would be quite a bit of
>> work, but very achievable for someone who is highly motivated.
>> * I'm noticing that many of our project contacts are not keeping up
>> with this osgeo-live email list, which is understandable as it has
>> become quite busy and people are not monitoring day-to-day activities.
>> I'd like to start a low traffic announce email list, specifically for
>> announcing our key milestones (primarily for advertising our press
>> releases).
>> * What else should we be thinking about and focusing on?
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB#gid=0
>>
>>
>> -- Cameron Shorter
>> Geospatial Solutions Manager
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>>
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