[Live-demo] OSGeoLive at Intergeo 2011

Sat Nov 19 17:02:37 EST 2011

Ruth,
Thank you for volunteering. It actually doesn't take much effort to 
ensure the OSGeoLive is handed out at spatial conferences like FossGIS.

What is involved is:
1. Ensure your name is added as a contact point in our release schedule 
here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB#gid=0
(This is where I look to tell event organisors that the LiveDVD is ready 
for printing)

2. You may optionally also subscribe to the osgeo-live email list, to 
keep track of things.

3. Liaise with the conference organising committee to organise payment 
of the DVDs. (Even better is printing USBs which are much faster, 
however they do cost more). You should negotiate to get the DVD/USB 
printing costs added to the conference budget.

4. As the conference approaches, locate a local printer for the DVD 
and/or USB. Finding one that can print a bootable USB is sometimes 
difficult.

5. Coordinate with the USB team to print the DVD/USB when it is ready.

On 19/11/2011 11:37 PM, Ruth Schönbuchner wrote:
> Dear Astrid et all.
>
> First of all hello to everyone: I am new to the live-demo list and 
> helped with the translation of the DVD into German language.
> I would be pleased to support you with the LiveDVD for FossGIS 2012 in 
> March '12, although I am not available February '12.
> So we can organize ourselves in this list?
> Best regards,
> Ruth
>
> Ruth Schönbuchner
> *CSGIS*
> Email:ruth.schoenbuchner at csgis.de
> Web: h*ttp://www.csgis.de*
>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:47:10 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [Live-demo] OSGeoLive at Intergeo 2011
> > From: astrid.emde at wheregroup.com
> > To: mail at activityworkshop.net
> > CC: live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
> >
> > Hello activityworkshop,
> >
> > thanks for your feedback about OSGeo-Live on Intergeo 2011. It was
> > definitely a shame that we did not manage to print the new version 
> 5.0 for
> > Intergeo 2011. We were looking for volunteers to organize the 
> printing but
> > we did not find someone in the end.
> >
> > I hope that next year we will provide the DVD on FOSSGIS conference in
> > Dessau in march 2012 and also on Intergeo 2012. I will try to 
> organize the
> > print and promote the DVD like I did in 2010 together with Lars.
> >
> > Best regards Astrid
> >
> > On Fri, November 18, 2011 8:07 pm, activityworkshop wrote:
> > > I thought I'd give some feedback after a friend of mine picked up 
> a copy
> > > of OSGeoLive from this year's Intergeo conference in Nuremberg, 
> Germany.
> > > Sorry this feedback is a bit late.
> > >
> > >
> > > - Firstly, it seems that although the OpenSource camp at the 
> conference
> > > was popular, the OSGeoLive DVD didn't have a high visibility. If I 
> hadn't
> > > asked my friend in advance to pick me up a copy, he'd never have known
> > > that there was such a DVD. This contrasts greatly with the 2010
> > > conference which was where I found out about the DVD in the first 
> place -
> > > in 2010 it was well publicised and even without asking, the 
> attendees were
> > > offered the free DVDs to try out. Somehow this wasn't happening at 
> all at
> > > the 2011 conference, which is a shame. - Even when he knew to ask
> > > specifically for the DVD, the people running the stands didn't 
> know about
> > > it, or how to get it. In the end, he had to revisit the area three 
> times
> > > just to find someone who knew where the box of DVDs was. - He 
> brought back
> > > the DVD for me, but it was version 4.5 (from April 2011), not the 
> latest
> > > 5.0 which I guess should have been available in
> > > time for the conference (September 2011). That's not a problem 
> that only
> > > the 4.5 DVDs were available, but I'd expect them to make more of 
> an effort
> > > to give them away. Now I guess they've got a pile of 4.5 DVDs 
> which are
> > > now not going to be used.
> > >
> > > So I finally got to try out the DVD, and as I'd helped to put Prune on
> > > the DVD, I was eager to try it out. The DVD works great, but from 
> a purely
> > > personal view I was disappointed to see that Prune wasn't obvious 
> in the
> > > menus. According to the contents pages it belongs to the category
> > > "Navigation and maps", but I couldn't find Prune in that menu
> > > (or any of the other category menus), or in any of the category 
> folders
> > > on the desktop. Only by searching through all the other menus did I
> > > finally find it (in Applications -> Education for some reason). 
> Once I'd
> > > found it, it seems to work fine, but I'd appreciate it if Prune's menu
> > > item could be included in the GIS-related folders rather than the more
> > > general-sounding "Education" folder. I don't know if this was 
> fixed with
> > > 5.0, because I haven't had a chance
> > > to try it out yet. I'll try and download it to check.
> > >
> > > About the Intergeo itself though, I think the promotion of the DVD 
> could
> > > be greatly improved for next year's conference. So much work has 
> gone into
> > > making the DVD useful, that it seems a shame that the ideal target
> > > audience at the Intergeo isn't getting to hear more about it.
> > >
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> >
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