[Live-demo] Experiences of using OSGeo Live 6.0 for MSc class teaching

[Jeremy Morley]

Cameron, all,

I'm certainly up for contributing. It's probably better not to immediately
jump in with this - I've already found one annoying bug (my partition table
works on (X)ubuntu and MacOS, but while Windows 7 recognizes both partitions
(and unallocated space) it won't mount the logical FAT32 partition. This is
especially tedious as I wanted this to be an easy way to transfer data
between the OSGeo Live system and Windows.

Oddly too, some PCs are tetchy about booting the USB. On these I find I have
to boot Windows as far as the log-in prompt, insert the USB drive, then
reboot the machine. Possibly also something in the partition table.


I'll get through to the end of this term (end of March) and then reflect
once I know that it actually all works! I'll also put my course notes on our
Elogeo repository (elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk) and link from the wiki.

(Any hints what the partition error I've made for Win7 to be happy would be
welcome).

Regards,
Jeremy


On 04/02/2013 19:43, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeremy,
> Thank you for your reflections. I'm hoping that we can tap into your
> experience in order to help others following in your footsteps.
> 
> Firstly, Could you please add your workshops into our History page:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History
> Keeping track of how far OSGeo-Live is used, provides the motivation for
> projects to continually keep their documentation and applications up to
> date on OSGeo-Live.
> Please make sure that your blog is linked into your history entry.
> Others may find it here.
> 
> Second,
> I'm thinking that your experience could potentially be distilled into a
> tutorial or quickstart or similar for workshop presenters. I'm open to
> formats. Maybe put into a wiki page similar to:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Including_OSGeo-Live_at_your_event
> Or possibly a quickstart similar to:
> http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/virtualization_quickstart.html
> 
> I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this.
> 
> On 05/02/13 00:25, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> Hi Jeremy,
>> 
>> Thank you for your blog post. It is nice to see OSGeoLive being used
>> for class teaching. I do this myself too :)
>> 
>> Also thank you for the feedback. About the slower booting of version
>> 6.0, I guess it has to do with some startup scripts we added to bypass
>> an annoying mysql bug we had. We are planning to fix this in 7.0 as
>> well as disabling the default tomcat from starting up during boot,
>> which also takes time and memory.
>> 
>> Right now we are close to 6.5 release.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Angelos
>> 
>> On 02/04/2013 02:47 PM, Jeremy Morley wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> Sorry to appear from nowhere in this list. Jeff suggested that you
>>> might be
>>> interested in some reflections on using OSGeo Live 6.0 in a class
>>> setting
>>> (and before it, 5.0) that I've written up in a blog post:
>>> http://wp.me/pDme1-1F (this is a Wordpress short URL to the post).
>>> 
>>> I've not gone into details on the post, and possibly its contents are
>>> outside your interest, but I hope it might be helpful.
>>> 
>>> And thank you for this system - I use OSGeo Live all the time for the
>>> GIS,
>>> as a VM in research, in teaching, and often simply as a convenient Linux
>>> system!
>>> 
>>> Any questions, suggestions, etc, please contact me.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Jeremy
>>> 
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