[Live-demo] OSGeoLive at Intergeo 2011

Sat Nov 19 04:37:25 PST 2011

Dear Astrid et all. 

First of all hello to everyone: I am new to the live-demo list and helped with the translation of the DVD into German language.
I would be pleased to support you with the LiveDVD for FossGIS 2012 in March '12, although I am not available February '12.
So we can organize ourselves in this list? 
Best regards,
Ruth

Ruth Schönbuchner
CSGIS
Email:ruth.schoenbuchner at csgis.de
Web: http://www.csgis.de

> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:47:10 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] OSGeoLive at Intergeo 2011
> From: astrid.emde at wheregroup.com
> To: mail at activityworkshop.net
> CC: live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
> 
> Hello activityworkshop,
> 
> thanks for your feedback about OSGeo-Live on Intergeo 2011. It was
> definitely a shame that we did not manage to print the new version 5.0 for
> Intergeo 2011. We were looking for volunteers to organize the printing but
> we did not find someone in the end.
> 
> I hope that next year we will provide the DVD on FOSSGIS conference in
> Dessau in march 2012 and also on Intergeo 2012. I will try to organize the
> print and promote the DVD like I did in 2010 together with Lars.
> 
> Best regards Astrid
> 
> On Fri, November 18, 2011 8:07 pm, activityworkshop wrote:
> > I thought I'd give some feedback after a friend of mine picked up a copy
> > of OSGeoLive from this year's Intergeo conference in Nuremberg, Germany.
> > Sorry this feedback is a bit late.
> >
> >
> > - Firstly, it seems that although the OpenSource camp at the conference
> > was popular, the OSGeoLive DVD didn't have a high visibility.  If I hadn't
> > asked my friend in advance to pick me up a copy, he'd never have known
> > that there was such a DVD.  This contrasts greatly with the 2010
> > conference which was where I found out about the DVD in the first place -
> > in 2010 it was well publicised and even without asking, the attendees were
> > offered the free DVDs to try out.  Somehow this wasn't happening at all at
> > the 2011 conference, which is a shame. - Even when he knew to ask
> > specifically for the DVD, the people running the stands didn't know about
> > it, or how to get it.  In the end, he had to revisit the area three times
> > just to find someone who knew where the box of DVDs was. - He brought back
> > the DVD for me, but it was version 4.5 (from April 2011), not the latest
> > 5.0 which I guess should have been available in
> > time for the conference (September 2011).  That's not a problem that only
> > the 4.5 DVDs were available, but I'd expect them to make more of an effort
> > to give them away.  Now I guess they've got a pile of 4.5 DVDs which are
> > now not going to be used.
> >
> > So I finally got to try out the DVD, and as I'd helped to put Prune on
> > the DVD, I was eager to try it out.  The DVD works great, but from a purely
> > personal view I was disappointed to see that Prune wasn't obvious in the
> > menus.  According to the contents pages it belongs to the category
> > "Navigation and maps", but I couldn't find Prune in that menu
> > (or any of the other category menus), or in any of the category folders
> > on the desktop.  Only by searching through all the other menus did I
> > finally find it (in Applications -> Education for some reason).  Once I'd
> > found it, it seems to work fine, but I'd appreciate it if Prune's menu
> > item could be included in the GIS-related folders rather than the more
> > general-sounding "Education" folder. I don't know if this was fixed with
> > 5.0, because I haven't had a chance
> > to try it out yet.  I'll try and download it to check.
> >
> > About the Intergeo itself though, I think the promotion of the DVD could
> > be greatly improved for next year's conference.  So much work has gone into
> > making the DVD useful, that it seems a shame that the ideal target
> > audience at the Intergeo isn't getting to hear more about it.
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> 
> Astrid Emde
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