[OpenGeoscience] OSGeoLive EGU 2016

Sat Jan 16 13:59:21 PST 2016

Dear Micha,

nice to hear from you! It sounds great!
Thanks for your efforts in this activities.
I will be glad to be a co-conveners of this Short course.
If I can, I suggest you a title of the session:
Geospatial Open Source Software for Your Research: OSGeo-Live
I have also sponsored, in the last months, this SC with this title in the EGU community.
How i the day and time slots that you have choose for the SC?

Yours,
Raffaele

> Il giorno 16 gen 2016, alle ore 11:51, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> ha scritto:
> 
> Hello Raffaele:
> Sorry for being so slow to answer. I was a bit swamped this past week.
> 
> Here is the text I entered as "Session Details" when I submitted the application:
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> OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around.
> 
> We will present, during two sessions, an overview of the Live DVD system, setup as a virtual machine, and demonstrate of some of the software available. At the end of the first session, participants will have a running Live DVD virtual machine on their laptops. During the second session we will review desktop applications, spatial databases, web mapping, and specialized tools. Among the desktop applications we will demonstrate QGIS and GRASS. We will show implementation of spatial databases and web mapping with PostGIS and Geoserver, and perhaps the Cesium javascript library for 3D map display. Additional software will hopefully include some new python tools for geospatial work, R for geo-statistics, MB-system for sea floor mapping.
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> 
> The application has been accepted:
> http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/22294 <http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/22294>
> 
> I asked for two sessions of 90 minutes. I think that the best use of time would be to dedicate the first session to setting up a VM on participant's laptops. I would do a preliminary overview of the Live DVD while participants copy the (large) VM file onto their computers. Then step by step setting up the virtual computer with VirtualBox.
> The second session can then be used to do hands-on demos of selected applications, with participants following along and performing the same quick start exercises themselves.
> 
> Let me know if you have any comments. Shall I add you as co-convener??
> 
> Best regards,
> Micha
> 
> On 01/08/2016 11:12 PM, Raffaele wrote:
>> Dear Micha,
>> 
>> please let me know when you have prepared a draft of the short course syllabus in order to submit it at EGU 2016. I will be happy to contribute, be involved and to promote it in EGU community, if I can.
>> 
>> Thanks for your efforts,
>> Raffaele
>> 
>> 
>>> Il giorno 05 gen 2016, alle ore 19:56, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il <mailto:micha at arava.co.il>> ha scritto:
>>> 
>>> Hello All:
>>> I've collected some thoughts concerning the proposed short course on OSGeo Live at the EGU2016 conference on the wiki page:
>>> 
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee#Overview:_OSGeo-related_short_courses_at_EGU_2016 <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee#Overview:_OSGeo-related_short_courses_at_EGU_2016>
>>> 
>>> This is based on ideas that I got from the OSGeo Live folks during their weekly chat sessions.  I'd be glad to hear any feedback you might have, and of course anyone who wants to volunteer to fill in one of the spots is most welcome. 
>>> 
>>> But time is short, so I'll try to compose a syllabus and submit for a short course, in order to get a time slot. (I believe that has not been done yet by anyone?). I expect <60 participants, so we can select two time slots of 90 minutes each. 
>>> 
>>> Any other thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Best wishes for a happy and prosperous year,
>>> Micha
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Il giorno 05 gen 2016, alle ore 15:14, Micha Silver < <mailto:micha at arava.co.il>micha at arava.co.il <mailto:micha at arava.co.il>> ha scritto:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Raffaele
>>>>> Thanks for the reminder. I will put a few thoughts on the OpenGeoscience wiki page (started by Peter) in the next day or two. What is involved in submitting a proposal. Does it require a written "abstract" like other presentations? 
>>>>> or just a  description of the short course?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 05/01/2016 14:07, Raffaele wrote:
>>>>>> Dear Micha,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> how are u? I wish you and your family a Happy New Year.
>>>>>> I contact you regard the initiative to organize a short course on OSGeoLive at EGU 2016. I hope you want to continue in supporting the organization of the short course and the submission of a proposal to request the inclusion of that short course in EGU GA 2016. The deadline for submitting that proposal is 13 January and we have to indicate the day and time block (we can choose only between 17:30-19:00 and 19:00-20:00) together a description of the course.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Please, let me know your opinion.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Raffaele 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Raffaele Albano
>>>>>> Eng PhD
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Research Associate - University of Basilicata
>>>>>> CoFounder - Wat-TUBE Spinoff
>>>>>> NH ECS Raprs - European Geosciences Union
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> tel. +390971205157 <tel:%2B390971205157>
>>>>>> nome skype: albano.raffaele <>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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