[Live-demo] Geo4All branding on OSGeo-Live?

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 16:05:59 PDT 2016


Suchith, Geoforall community,


What I think OSGeo-Live and Geoforall is missing, and would really 
benefit from, is having a self motivated individual (or 2) from the 
Geoforall community step forward and offer to coordinate USE of OSGeo-Live.


OSGeo-Live already has very competent technical people who create the 
OSGeo-Live distribution. There are also numerous individuals pulling 
together workshops and courses which reference OSGeo-Live. What is 
missing is someone to put in the time to rally all the OSGeo-Live users 
together. Someone to reach out to workshop teams and coordinate 
aggregating workshop material into a common repository (or similar). One 
way to start this would be for someone to start with one workshop and 
then draw in others. Alternatively, start by reviewing and improving 
quickstarts.


It is a non-trivial task, but would be hugely valuable to both Geoforall 
and OSGeo-Live if someone was to step up and commit to it long term.


If you are reading this, and think you, or someone you know, might be up 
to the task, then do speak up.


Warm regards, Cameron


On 12/07/2016 3:25 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
> Also a simple idea to get more volunteers for the documentation, 
> translation is that each lab send a personalised message to thier 
> students introducing OSGeo live and welcoming volunteers for 
> documentation extention, translators etc.
>
> Cameron - if you can send a draft mail for this (highlighting key 
> projects that need this urgently) and we will get all our lab 
> coordinators to send this out through thier university/department 
> networks. Thanks.
>
> Suchith
>
>
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> *From:* GeoForAll [geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] on behalf of 
> Suchith Anand [Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* 12 July 2016 6:12 AM
> *To:* Cameron Shorter; Marc VLOEMANS
> *Cc:* geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; live-demo
> *Subject:* Re: [Geo4All] Geo4All branding on OSGeo-Live?
>
> Hi Cameron,
>
> Thanks for the info. This is a good idea to involve Geo4All labs in 
> the testing aspects. We have a good network of real multi disciplinary 
> users who are experts in thier respective fields as well as at 
> different levels (from professors to students), so an ideal mix to 
> test and provide feedbacks.
>
> Good idea to include a brief description of OSGeo to the OSGeo-Live 
> home page. If you could mention  Geo4All and provide a link it will be 
> great .
>
> Geo4All community - Please provide your feedbacks, inputs on this 
> suggestion. May be this is also the time to get one of the labs 
> volunteer for "Software of the month" section that we are planning for 
> the Geo4All monthly newsletter highlighting one of 50+ OSGeolive 
> projects each month. Any labs willing to volunteer for this, please 
> let me or Nikos know. It will be greatly appreciated.
>
> All ideas welcome.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
> **
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Cameron Shorter [cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 12 July 2016 2:40 AM
> *To:* Suchith Anand; Marc VLOEMANS
> *Cc:* live-demo; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: Geo4All branding on OSGeo-Live?
>
> Hi Suchith,
>
> It is great to see such uptake of OSGeo-Live from the Geo4All 
> community, and you are right, there is potential for cross advertising 
> between projects.
>
> We discussed this and your request in our OSGeo-Live weekly meeting today.
>
> One of our weaknesses in the OSGeo-Live team is our ability to 
> continuously keep the project maintained, current, and TESTED. Testing 
> is something that the Geo4All community could help us with, because as 
> users you are the experts we need feedback from users to confirm 
> projects work as expected.
>
>
> To date, OSGeo-Live has added logos to our webpages for organisations 
> and communities who have contributed something tangible (and usually 
> sustained) toward OSGeo-Live development. If the Geo4All could 
> coordinate something similar, (maybe in the form of sustained testing 
> resources, or extensions to documentation), then it would be 
> appropriate to add a Geo4All logo to OSGeo-Live.
>
>
> That said, we do think it would make sense to include a brief (one or 
> two sentence) description of OSGeo to the OSGeo-Live home page. This 
> might include a mention of Geo4All.
>
>
> Warm regards, Cameron
>
> On 11/07/2016 3:48 PM, Suchith Anand wrote:
>> Hi  Marc, all,
>>
>> Our colleagues at Geo4All (the official  OSGeo's Education outreach) 
>> are actively promoting OSGeoLiveDVDs to esp. those who are new to 
>> learn and then switch over to OSGeo. Our focus is reaching out to new 
>> communities and it will be really helpful if you can arrange OSGeo 
>> Live DVDs to be handed out at the FOSS4G and other events . If you 
>> can have Geo4All logo added to the LiveDVDs it will be very helpful.
>>
>> Could someone help us with adding the Geo4All logo and url to the 
>> OSGeoLive DVDs. Many thanks.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Suchith
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