[Marketing] [Live-demo] OSGeo-Live Mission and Future - was BOF

[Cameron Shorter]

Brian,

You have eloquently presented the current state of OSGeo-Live and the 
foundations for future opportunities and growth.

I particularly agree with your caution about creating multiple 
documentation baselines for OSGeo, (it creates a maintenance challenge) 
and the recommendation of retasking the same material in multiple contexts.

Cheers, Cameron


On 5/8/17 9:34 am, Brian M Hamlin wrote:
> HI Jody, All -
>
>   In the past with OSGeo-Live, I have described the Mission Statement 
> in three parts:
>
> Reference Install ;  Showcase for Projects  ;  well-chosen (curated) 
> examples
>
>   WIth the release of Live 11 and the massive advance in Debian 
> packaging, I believe the future is not one project. This can be seen 
> as "evolution" .. it is natural for a large and mature project to 
> split ..
>   Website ;  Server Edition  ;  Desktop Linux
> -
>    with the new OSGeo web site development.. somehow I realized that the
> docs from OSGeo-Live should be the same docs in the new OSGeo web 
> site. Rebuilding docs is too much work, and too many parts, to 
> duplicate. Instead,
> build once and deploy in several contexts. -
>   credit to Angelos Tzotsos and Debian Developer Sebastian Couwenburg
> The "server edition" of OSGeo-Live is simply UbuntuGIS PPA,
> with DebianGIS aka pkg-grass as the "upstream" in many cases.. -
>   that leaves "desktop Linux" Ubuntu.. what remains of the OSGeo-Live. 
> Critically speaking, it has been twenty years (or more) that I have 
> been active,
> of promises of "desktop Linux" .. in fact, Windows and phones have 
> spread,
> with some percentage of Mac OSX from Apple in various demographic 
> groups. Web browsing is constant, phone use is constant and climbing, 
> and .. no desktop
> revolution with Linux of any kind.  OSGeo-Live right now, is basically 
> desktop Linux. -
>  Another note on Ubuntu.. as people likely know, the number one cloud 
> VM instance
> is Ubuntu.. and last I heard, Google uses an Ubuntu fork for much 
> within its cloud walls. The "server edition" of OSGeo-Live is.. Ubuntu 
> packaging.. this bodes well.. -
>
> I am interested in participating in a BOF, but from my point of view, 
> I think we should
> consider the OSGeo-Live 11 as somewhat an "end of an era" .. and move 
> forward
> with eyes open to new, productive avenues for valuable efforts.
>   best regards from Berkeley, California
>    -Brian M Hamlin
>
>
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2017 15:41:07 -0700, Jody Garnett 
> <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is anyone up for an OSGeo Live BOF:
> Also I finally uploaded photos with the OSGeo-Live team from foss4ge:
> (example|example|group). Could I ask the team to select one of these 
> for a group photo for the new website?
>
> Had a productive meeting with the graphics designer about subbrands on 
> wednesday - and had a good ideas for us to try out: rather than reuse 
> the circle, reuse the small compass shape. Tried putting the compass 
> shape in a computer logo and the result looked like what OSGeo-Live 
> is. Also did one putting the heart in a computer frame as a reference.
> -- 
> Jody Garnett
>
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