[Live-demo] [Workshops] FOSS4G 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals - OSGeo-Live

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Fri Feb 3 12:20:29 PST 2017


Chris,

I'm sharing your email with the OSGeo-Live email list and will start a 
separate thread, CC discuss and osgeo-live lists, asking if anyone has 
experience taking OSGeo to the cloud.


On 4/2/17 4:08 am, Chris Barnett wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
>
>> I agree that we hopefully should be able to find people to help 
>> create workshop material and then help present. We can reach out to 
>> our OSGeo-Live community too.
>>
> We talked about this at our meeting last night and there was 
> enthusiastic support for the idea. We’re excited to help in whatever 
> way we can with an OSGeo-Live workshop!
>
>> With regards to getting OSGeo-Live working in the cloud, I think that 
>> would be an excellent goal to work on. We did actually get OSGeo-Live 
>> working on one of the early cloud platforms (called click2try which 
>> is now out of 
>> business).https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35
>>
>> Would you like to share your ideas about setting up a remote desktop? 
>> How are you proposing to set this up technically? What options do we 
>> have to help debug? Is it something we can re-use beyond foss4g?
>>
> I’m really just at the phase of ascertaining feasibility. My attempt 
> to import the OSGeo Live VM to AWS failed because the AWS import 
> process didn’t support Lubuntu. I think that I probably can get it to 
> work on other cloud hosts, but I haven’t had a chance to test yet. For 
> remote access to the desktop I’ve been using xrdp and tigervnc. This 
> also looks like an interesting option: 
> http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/, as it allows remote access via 
> the browser.
>
> I think it would be fantastic if a cloud version could be reused 
> beyond FOSS4G. Something like a docker image could be a nice solution, 
> as it would be portable across many cloud providers and could also be 
> installed locally.
>>
>> Is your foss4g committee meeting in person or virtual? If virtual, 
>> some of the OSGeo-Live team might be able to join. Alternatively, you 
>> might wish to join the OSGeo-Live weekly meeting, Monday 2:30pm in 
>> Boston:
>>
> I’ll try to make the meeting on Monday!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Feb 2, 2017, at 2:25 PM, Cameron Shorter 
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Chris, Regina others,
>>
>> I agree that we hopefully should be able to find people to help 
>> create workshop material and then help present. We can reach out to 
>> our OSGeo-Live community too.
>>
>> With regards to getting OSGeo-Live working in the cloud, I think that 
>> would be an excellent goal to work on. We did actually get OSGeo-Live 
>> working on one of the early cloud platforms (called click2try which 
>> is now out of business). 
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35
>>
>> Would you like to share your ideas about setting up a remote desktop? 
>> How are you proposing to set this up technically? What options do we 
>> have to help debug? Is it something we can re-use beyond foss4g?
>>
>> Is your foss4g committee meeting in person or virtual? If virtual, 
>> some of the OSGeo-Live team might be able to join. Alternatively, you 
>> might wish to join the OSGeo-Live weekly meeting, Monday 2:30pm in 
>> Boston:
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Contact_Us
>>
>> Warm regards, Cameron
>>
>>
>> On 3/2/17 2:38 am, Chris Barnett wrote:
>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>
>>> We’ll be sure to discuss this at our workshop committee meeting this 
>>> evening. My sense is that it is perfectly in line with our vision 
>>> for workshops and that most likely we can find folks to fill in the 
>>> very few gaps that Regina (who is on our committee) is not confident 
>>> about.
>>>
>>> I’d also like to chat with someone from the OSGeo-Live community 
>>> about OSGeo-Live resources. OSGeo-Live USB sticks will be available 
>>> to workshop participants, but we’d also like to make cloud-based 
>>> instances available via remote desktop. I’ve run into a couple of 
>>> technical issues with this and think it would be very useful to draw 
>>> on your collective knowledge and experience. What would be the 
>>> best/most appropriate way to go about this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jan 30, 2017, at 6:51 PM, Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us 
>>>> <mailto:lr at pcorp.us>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Cameron,
>>>> I'd be happy to help out with the PostGIS and free data sources, 
>>>> and possibly QGIS and OpenLayers.  Rest of the items I feel less 
>>>> confident training on.
>>>> I do like the idea of a splash workshop like this, especially for 
>>>> would-be trainers who are interested in using the OSGeo-Live as 
>>>> part of their curriculum.
>>>> BTWhttp://www.bostongis.com/site was created by me. Sadly I've been 
>>>> too busy as of late to keep it as up to date as I'd like.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Regina
>>>> *From:*Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
>>>> *Sent:*Monday, January 30, 2017 5:46 PM
>>>> *To:*conference-workshops at lists.osgeo.org 
>>>> <mailto:conference-workshops at lists.osgeo.org>; Regina Obe 
>>>> <lr at pcorp.us <mailto:lr at pcorp.us>>; Chris Barnett 
>>>> <chrissbarnett at gmail.com <mailto:chrissbarnett at gmail.com>>
>>>> *Cc:*live-demo <Live-demo at lists.osgeo.org 
>>>> <mailto:Live-demo at lists.osgeo.org>>
>>>> *Subject:*Re: [Workshops] FOSS4G 2017 Call for Workshop Proposals - 
>>>> OSGeo-Live
>>>>
>>>> Hello FOSS4G Boston team,
>>>>
>>>> In today's OSGeo-Live weekly meeting we discussed preparing an 
>>>> OSGeo-Live workshop to be initially used for FOSS4G 2017, but which 
>>>> would then be a useful resource for future OSGeo related training.
>>>>
>>>> We'd like to open a discussion with FOSS4G organizers about the 
>>>> creation, content, and presentation of this workshop.
>>>>
>>>> Our OSGeo-Live community live all around the world, and many of us 
>>>> who are interested in helping with content creation might/will not 
>>>> be able to make the conference in order to present. So we would 
>>>> like to like to put feelers out to determine if we can find some 
>>>> local people to help out with the presentation.
>>>>
>>>> It has been noticed that the BostonGIS community have done an 
>>>> excellent job already in creating OSGeo tutorial material, 
>>>> available at:http://www.bostongis.com/Who was involved in creating 
>>>> this material? Would there be members of the BostonGIS or Boston 
>>>> FOSS4G community interested in helping be part of an OSGeo-Live 
>>>> workshop team?
>>>>
>>>> In creating and presenting material, I'm hopeful that we can draw 
>>>> upon an OSGeo community leader (or 2) from each project included. 
>>>> This should increase the value of the presentation and spread the 
>>>> effort of creation. (On the downside, it would increase the number 
>>>> of presenters in the room).
>>>>
>>>> With regards to the structure of the OSGeo-Live workshop:
>>>>
>>>> Target Audience:
>>>>
>>>> * We suggest that the target audience should be new users to OSGeo. 
>>>> There would be no prior assumed knowledge or technical expertise so 
>>>> could be attended by a non-GIS techie, or a manager, or a sales 
>>>> person. The aim would be to introduce attendees to the breadth of 
>>>> Open Source GIS available, and get some hands on feeling for what 
>>>> these applications look like.
>>>>
>>>> Content:
>>>>
>>>> * 4 hours won't be sufficient time to cover all 50 OSGeo-Live 
>>>> projects in depth, so we will need to be selective. I'd expect we 
>>>> would base the workshop on something similar to:
>>>>
>>>> 0:00 - 0:10 Introduction
>>>>
>>>> 0:10 - 0:20 Set up OSGeo-Live on everyone's laptop. (Instructors 
>>>> walking around the room helping, possibly spilling into next 
>>>> presentation)
>>>>
>>>> 0:20 - 1:00 Overview of all 50 applications in OSGeo-Live, based on 
>>>> OSGeo-Live 
>>>> presentation:http://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html
>>>>
>>>> 1:00 - 3:30 Look at a subset of main applications in depth. About 
>>>> 20 to 30 mins for 6 to 8 applications. Base on existing 
>>>> Quickstarts. Covering:
>>>>
>>>> * Database setup (PostGIS?)
>>>>
>>>> * Web Service setup (GeoServer? GeoNode?)
>>>>
>>>> * Desktop use case (QGIS?)
>>>>
>>>> * Browser application(s) (OpenLayers? Cesium?)
>>>>
>>>> * Possibly also cover free data sources such as Open Street Map
>>>>
>>>> 3:30 - 4:00 Buffer time for questions, delays, coffee break.
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> So questions for the Boston team:
>>>>
>>>> a. Is this concept in line with Boston's vision for workshops?
>>>>
>>>> b. Is there anyone interested in getting involved in the above?
>>>>
>>>> Warm regards,
>>>> Cameron
>>>>
>>>> On 25/01/2017 9:15 AM, Chris Barnett wrote:
>>>>> Hello OSGeo community,
>>>>>
>>>>> The workshop subcommittee of the FOSS4G 2017 Boston LOC would like 
>>>>> to announce that the call for workshop proposals is now officially 
>>>>> open! We invite you to submit a proposal to teach a workshop. 
>>>>>  Here is a link to the workshop page of our website for the 
>>>>> submission form and further details: http://2017.foss4g.org/workshops/
>>>>> For those of you who don’t yet know, FOSS4G 2017 will be held in 
>>>>> Boston, MA, USA on August 14-19. Please visit the website for 
>>>>> conference details : http://2017.foss4g.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> *_In brief:_*
>>>>> *Workshop info:*
>>>>> ·Workshops will be held on August 14th and 15th at the Harvard 
>>>>> Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) in Cambridge, MA
>>>>> ·Workshops are scheduled in 4 hour blocks, but a limited number of 
>>>>> full-day (8 hr.) workshops will be considered
>>>>> ·Compensation for a 4 hour workshop is $650, which is the cost of 
>>>>> an Early-Bird registration for FOSS4G
>>>>> ·Workshops will be BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for attendees. 
>>>>> FOSS4G will provide bootable OSGeo Live USB sticks and remote 
>>>>> desktop access to cloud-hosted machines.
>>>>> ·In the past, workshops have included topics related to the 
>>>>> following, but the committee is open to other topics that are 
>>>>> relevant to the FOSS4G community and will generate interest :
>>>>> oQGIS/PyQGIS
>>>>> oPostGIS
>>>>> oGeoServer
>>>>> oMapServer
>>>>> oWeb Mapping
>>>>> oGRASS GIS
>>>>> oGDAL/OGR CLI Tools
>>>>> opgRouting
>>>>> oUsing OSGeoLive
>>>>> oGeoPython
>>>>> oGvSig
>>>>> oAerial Mapping and Point Clouds/LIDAR/Photogrammetry
>>>>> oUsing open source GIS in a cloud environment
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Important Dates:
>>>>> *Call for Workshops Closed: March 13, 2017
>>>>> Workshop Selections Announced: March 20, 2017
>>>>> Detailed Workshop Program: April 3, 2017
>>>>> Workshops Take Place at Harvard: August 14/15, 2017
>>>>>
>>>>> Feel free to contact me at chrissbarnett at gmail.com 
>>>>> <mailto:chrissbarnett at gmail.com> with any questions that you may 
>>>>> have, and stay tuned for the FOSS4G call for presentations, which 
>>>>> will be opening shortly!
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Chris Barnett
>>>>> ---------------------------------
>>>>> Workshop subcommittee
>>>>> FOSS4G 2017 Boston LOC
>>>>> http://2017.foss4g.org/
>>>>> ---------------------------------
>>>>> Sr. Geospatial Analyst, Tufts University
>>>>> Somerville, MA, USA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>> M +61 419 142 254
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cameron Shorter
>> M +61 419 142 254
>

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Cameron Shorter
M +61 419 142 254

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