[Live-demo] presentation update

[Stephan Meißl]

On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 17:32 +1000, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> On 24/08/12 23:40, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> > I'm just going through the presentation and comparing with the
> > software listed here: http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html
> >
> > I've updated a few screenshots to use the ones in the online docs.
> Ok, thanks.
> >
> > I think EOxServer and GEOS are the only things mentioned in the online
> > docs that aren't in the presentation, so I'll add them. I don't think
> > anything has been taken away.
> GEOS should be added to the presentation.
> EOxServer should not be added. Actually, EOxServer should not be linked 
> into the OSGeo-Live docs, but it seems it has slipped in without review. 
> This concerns me as if the quality of one of our applications is found 
> to be lacking due to less review and quality control, then the 
> reputation of other applications will tarnished though association. Note 
> that EXoServer docs haven't gone through review yet.
> 
Cameron, you're absolutely right, it shouldn't be linked and I remember
Angelos removing the original link based on the decision below. I don't
know what happened that it is still linked. Anyway, we tried to
thoroughly test and review our contributions and hope that there will be
no impact on the reputation of OSGeo-Live in general or any included
application.

Btw. congratulations to the whole team for the great new release!

Best regards,
Stephan


> This was our original decision re EOxServer:
> 
> On 03/06/12 08:03, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> > EOxServer does look like it would be a valuable contribution to 
> > OSGeoLive. From what I hear, it does seem to be of suitable quality 
> > software. I'm a bit nervous about your relatively small user 
> > community, as well as the existence of similar projects which will be 
> > competing to attract your niche user base. I would like to encourage 
> > you to reach out to other International Earth Observation software 
> > projects to see how you can collaborate, and also reach out to other 
> > Earth Observation communities and attract them as users. This will be 
> > important for the long term viability of your project.
> >
> > With regards to including EOxServer on OSGeoLive:
> > I don't want to commit yet to including EOxServer in this 6.0 release. 
> > Partly due to the light community size, but mostly due to the many 
> > other challenges that we are going to be spending a lot of time on for 
> > this osgeolive release, (switching to ubuntu 12.04 and openjdk).
> > However, you are welcome to write your docs and install script, and we 
> > can include them in the release. The docs will be on the DVD, but not 
> > linked from the index page, and install script won't be run during the 
> > build process, but can be run afterwards (eg at the start of a 
> > workshop which is using the DVD).
> > I'd then suggest that we will probably want to introduce EOxServer 
> > into the OSGeoLive 6.5 release.