[Marketing] Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ?

Thu Oct 1 13:47:54 EDT 2009

Joanne, 

>From the looks of the site you linked to, I think we're of the same mind about why to do such a thing.  I'm thinking there is an obvious educational potential here.  Having a self contained suite of service and client(s) that can all see and hear each others services is the nirvana I'm shooting for.    

The other big piece of what I'm after is portability across OS's, as in plug the USB into something and it just works, no matter what OS (if possible) 

Generally I would like to provide only a single data source to all clients via a web interface.   The Windows version of things was simplest and had the most potential customer base out of the chute, but having something that works across OS's, as much as possible, is the eventual end goal. 

I'm also big into the idea of letting the owners of GIS (and data in general) publish their own wares without necessarily needing to know(specifically) how a GIS system works. 

bobb 

>>> Joanne Cook <j.cook at oxfordarch.co.uk> wrote:

   7. Re: Meeting Tonight, 10/1 ? (Bob Basques)

Hi Bob,

Contact me off-list if you like, but I have a system that might do what you want (plug-and-play GIS), called Portable GIS (www.archaeogeek.com/blog/portable-gis). I don't want to hijack the list with "advertising", though it's all free, but I tried to email you directly and got the message bounced back.

Cheers

Jo

Message: 7
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:45:11 -0500
From: "Bob Basques" <Bob.Basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
Subject:
To: <tech at wildintellect.com>
Cc: OSGeo Marketing <marketing at lists.osgeo.org>
Message-ID: <4AC46C17.163B.00A8.0 at ci.stpaul.mn.us>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Alex,

I've been experimenting mostly.   Things are kind of gel-ing around portableApps (for windows) so far.  I did try other combinations of things though, Portable FireFox (from Mozilla) with the POW extension, FF (packaged via portableApps) with Apache Portable, Full Apache with portable FF, Full Apache with FF from PortableApps.

I finally got FULL Apache to do what I was looking to do.   I was really wanting the POW extension for FF to be workabale though, since it would make portability across OS's much nicer.  I may go back and hit that again using what I've learned and see if I can still make that work.  The one click option seems like it might be nicer this way, since all the user would need to do is start FF from the USB.  Database services may be problematic with this approach though, but I could build in a controller right into the Browser for this.

So, where am I at now.  PortableApps/XAMPP seems to be the best option for Windows which is what I started working on.  I intend to attack MAC and Linux as well.  The end result is to have a standalone mapping service start up either automatically after insertion into the USB and/or a one click startup.

bobb

>>> Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> wrote:

Bob,

I think there a few of us who could help you solve that over on the Live
Demo email list. I've done my share of work on USB portable applications.

Alex

Bob Basques wrote:
> Another item related to ease of use for newbies.  I've been working on and off the last couple of weeks on a USB based Web demo.
>
> I've gotten all component to work, now trying to get it down to a single one button startup.  I'm working on it for Emergency response uses, but there are other uses I'm sure.  I'm also interested in how a standalone suite like this might update itself automatically.
>
> bobb
>
>
>
>>>> Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> 09/30/09 9:36 PM >>>
> I've been out of the loop and missed all the summer meetings, did they
> even happen? What about tonight, are we having a meeting?
>
> Agenda Items:
> FOSS4G - last minute stuff
> AGM in December - Tyler was invited to speak? are we going to do a booth?
> Next 5 years - Bob's ideas, Live GIS project might fit
>
> FYI- California chapter is doing a 50min demo of QGIS, PostGIS,
> Mapserver, OpenLayers and OpenJump at NACIS next week.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
> _______________________________________________
> Marketing mailing list
> Marketing at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/attachments/20091001/4dc4a524/attachment-0001.html

------------------------------

_______________________________________________
Marketing mailing list
Marketing at lists.osgeo.org
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

End of Marketing Digest, Vol 25, Issue 1
****************************************

--
-----------------------------------------------------
Joanne Cook
Senior IT Support and Development
Oxford Archaeology (North)
01524 880212
http://thehumanjourney.net

------
Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://iso26300.info for more information.

_______________________________________________
Marketing mailing list
Marketing at lists.osgeo.org
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/marketing/attachments/20091001/87479e4f/attachment-0001.html