[Aust-NZ] Live CDs for the FOSS4G conference and DebianGIS

[Irfon Jones]

Hi everyone, LiveCDs are also good for outreach in general. For example, 
I've just handed out a copy of the Lausanne FOSS4G LiveCD to everyone in 
our undergraduate GIS class. Many were unaware of open source GIS tools, 
now they have a copy of some of the software which they can play with 
without the hassle of downloading and installing themselves.

Just another viewpoint for you to consider.

Thanks

Irfon


Brent Wood wrote:
> --- Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> two things I've been meaning to answer but got swamped with other
>> things..
>>
>>
>> 1) Providing a consistent computing experience for conference attendees
>> for workshops and training sessions.
>>
>> At previous FOSS4Gs there was a Live CD prepared (think Knoppix) and
>> handed out with all the favourite softwares and sample datasets. Everyone
>> sticks one of those in the laptop/provided workstation and all work from
>> the same page. Trying to install stuff on everyone's diverse OSs etc
>> would take the entire workshop, better to have that all prepackaged and
>> the same versions etc.
>>
>> here are some links:
>>   http://grass.osgeo.org/download/cdrom.php
>>   http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/software/slaxGIS/index.php
> 
> 
> Hi Hamish,
> 
> A while back I described how to make a LiveCD with QGIS, & demo'd it at the
> Open Source Geospatial Conference in Minneapolis, 2005. The disk included the
> full 2001 set of LINZ topo data & the NZMG aerial photography. The HowTo is at 
> 
> http://qgis.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=58
> 
> A bit outdated now, with LiveCD building tools having improved significantly in
> the last 3 years. I figure it might be a good idea to rebuild a current version
> of this, with at least QGIS & the data again, hopefully with a later vesrion of
> the topo data, and perhaps NZ cadastral, local authority boundaries, etc. as
> well. I'm not sure what can be done in this area with Australian data, as I
> don't know what is available.
> 
> Is there anyone here who has access to recent copies of LINZ
> topo/cadastral/road centrelines, etc? The LINZ license freely permits
> redistribution, & if I'm/we're 
> quick enough, we might just make it in time to provide a few giveaways for the 
> May GOVIS mini-conference (but this might be a bit optimistic). Something for
> FOSS4G should be more feasible though.
> 
> 
> Brent Wood
> 
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Irfon Jones
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University of Canterbury - Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha
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