[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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