[Live-demo] The Arramagong Live DVD / GISVM alpha 5 ready for download

[Cameron Shorter]

The latest alpha5 LiveDVD is available for download. Please download and 
check your applications run as you would expect, and adjust any scripts 
as required.

With this latest build of the Live DVD, I've kept install logs, and also 
checked disk size after each package install, so you can get an 
indication about how much space each application uses. (Note that this 
also includes the tmp/ download directory which is not deleted during 
the download).
The latest image, and logs are available at: 
http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/ 
<http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/ArramagongGISVM2009alpha4.7z.1>

Next:
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By COB this Wednesday 16 Sept:
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* Test your application, make sure it works. Adjust your scripts if 
required. Report back to this email list that your application has been 
tested and works (or doesn't).

* We need a text description of your project to put into the 
documentation, as per: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build#Writing_docs

* Ensure that test steps for your project are defined at: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Testing
It should contain enough information for an Ubuntu user who is 
unfamiliar an application to try it out and confirm that everything has 
been installed correctly.''

* Java projects, please provide guidance on what version of Java we 
should ship - whether we should use Tomcat, Jetty, or something else. It 
seems we have a number of projects installing their own JRE.

Thursday 17 Sept:
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* Release 2.0 RC 1 of virtual machine. Ask foss4g delegates to try out 
the DVD and report any errors they find. (This will be a major FOSS4G 
press release).

* I hope to also have an ISO of the live DVD created from this image as 
well.

* Developers, please ensure the metrics like version number and contact 
person are up to date at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Packages

Final release:
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At the moment, deadline for final build  to meet our printing deadline 
is Sunday 20 September, in 1 week. I hope to be able to get an extra 
week for testing. I'm still negotiating on this, so please do get 
everything working and tested this week.

-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Systems Architect
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