[Live-demo] Another OSGeo-Live BoF at FOSS4G today after OSGeo AGM

Wed Sep 25 15:17:44 PDT 2013

Angelos,

Regarding the proxy, we didn't ourselves directly re-configure the
USBs/DVDs but provided instructions on how to configure the settings for
use in the practicals. I've attached that document as a PDF (I can share a
Google Docs version if you like). The scope of this is limited to system,
apt, Firefox, and QGIS configuration (as well as the keyboard layout). It
seems most of the applications have a proxy setting which often is
separate from system settings, so might need checking one by one.

QGIS 2:  I understand that this is a pretty big job and so might have to
wait till 7.5. It seems a shame though to have to wait 6 months to get
this latest and greatest release in, especially given the noise it's
generated. Hence a 7.1 release before Christmas (rather than 7.0.1). But I
can see that this probably disrupts the usual schedule more than is
perhaps warranted.

Jeremy

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Jeremy Morley
Geospatial Science Theme Leader, Nottingham Geospatial Institute,
Triumph Road, University of Nottingham. NG7 2TU, United Kingdom.
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On 25/09/2013 23:00, "Angelos Tzotsos" <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi Jeremy,
>
>It was really nice to meet you at FOSS4G. Thank you for organizing such
>an excellent conference for the community.
>
>Sorry that I forgot those 2 points. Perhaps I forgot some other things
>too, please free to add here or the BOF wiki page.
>
>To answer the first one, I would need to know what kind of changes you
>did on the USB for the FOSS4G workshops. Ian told me that you did
>changes but we did not manage to find time to go into the details.
>
>As for the second, we did have a plan to release a 7.0.1 with some fixes
>in, but qgis 2.0 is a new feature and a pretty big one too for a point
>release... plus we will need to update documentation and make sure that
>all the plugins needed for the quickstarts are updated for 2.0 and
>included too. This seems to me like a 7.5 work to be done, but I am open
>to suggestions on how to manage such an update earlier.
>
>Best,
>Angelos
>
>On 09/25/2013 10:21 PM, Jeremy Morley wrote:
>> Angelos,
>>
>> Good to meet you and everyone else at FOSS4G. The Live-DVD BoF was one
>>of
>> the few things I made it to!
>>
>> I had two specific things.  Firstly, as mentioned in the meeting, a way
>>to
>> set proxy information system-wide, including in the various
>>applications,
>> would be particularly useful.
>>
>> Secondly, is there any chance of a 7.1 version sooner than the 7.5
>>release
>> that includes QGIS 2?..
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> -- ------------------------------------------------------------ --
>> Jeremy Morley
>> Geospatial Science Theme Leader, Nottingham Geospatial Institute,
>> Triumph Road, University of Nottingham. NG7 2TU, United Kingdom.
>> Web:   http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi     Twitter: jeremy_morley
>> Tel.:  +44/0 115 84 68411
>> Email: jeremy.morley at nottingham.ac.uk
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25/09/2013 18:47, "Angelos Tzotsos" <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> What an exciting OSGeoLive BOF meeting at FOSS4G!
>>> Even though we did not manage to meet for a second time, we did join
>>>the
>>> Edu BOF and lots of ideas came from that direction too.
>>>
>>> Summing up:
>>>
>>> 1. Documentation.
>>>      - Many expressed that translation process is not working as it
>>> should (outdated pages get published, tracking outdated pages in not
>>> possible with stats page etc). It has been proposed to use something
>>> like Transifex to manage our translations. Also, outdated pages should
>>> be blocked by the system from being released.
>>>      - Education is an important goal for OSGeoLive, we need to find a
>>> way for ICA-OSGeo Labs to be able to add new tutorials, workshop
>>> material etc. We should probably re-think this download launcher we
>>>have
>>> at the Live desktop and make it work again... perhaps pointing to the
>>> ICA-OSGeo repository.
>>>      - It was proposed to move ALL documentation into debian
>>>package(s),
>>> in order to be able to provide updates to it.
>>>      - PDF creation was discussed in order to provide our docs to
>>> students as a handbook.
>>>      - Find a way to update and build docs within the Live disk (eg by
>>> not deleting the svn files)
>>>
>>> 2. Build/Development:
>>>      - Create Java packages outside Launchpad (using binaries) in order
>>> to finally make OSGeoLive a meta-package. I was told we will have more
>>> packagers on this ;) This would enable future OSGeoLive versions to
>>>have
>>> an upgrade path...
>>>      - Create vagrant machines to be able to make debugging easy for
>>>the
>>> masses.
>>>      - Cloud deployment of OSGeoLive on Synnefo for demonstration
>>> http://www.synnefo.org/
>>> https://accounts.demo.synnefo.org/ui/login
>>>      - There was a suggestion for full CI solution like Jenkins
>>>
>>> 3. Code:
>>>      - LOTS of people on the meeting want the project to move on git
>>> (preferably on an OSGeo infrastructure). I would like to hear them on
>>> the mailing list too. I am long ago in favor of that switch. It seems I
>>> am not alone anymore...
>>>
>>> 4. Data:
>>>      - For 7.5 we should ask all projects to use only common data sets.
>>> This is a big thing, similar to the Java cleanup we did for 6.0...
>>>
>>> 5. Distribution:
>>>      - It was suggested that each conference should ask each delegate
>>>if
>>> they want OSGeoLive on a DVD or on a USB drive. If a USB is selected (I
>>> guess most of them would) then charge a couple of more $ on conference
>>> registration. Wonderful suggestion IMO
>>>      - There was a suggestion for creating postcards as a marketing
>>> material.
>>>
>>> Lets open the discussion on the above and see what can be done for 7.5
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Angelos
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/20/2013 11:37 AM, Astrid Emde wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> yesterday we had a very good meeting with people interested in
>>>> OSGeo-Live.
>>>> We were more than 15 participant.
>>>>
>>>> We talked about a lot of topics and nearly missed the Gala dinner ;)
>>>>
>>>> You find the topics we discussed about on the BoF FOSS4G wiki page:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#OSGeo-Live
>>>>
>>>> Please add your name if you want.
>>>>
>>>> TODAY we want to meet again.
>>>> We will meet after the OSGeo GML. We still have to find a room.
>>>> Yesterday
>>>> it looked like some of you want to discuss more about the
>>>>documentation
>>>> and about packaging and build process.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Today from 9-10 we are also invited to the Education and ICA-OSGeo
>>>>Labs
>>>> meeting
>>>> When - Friday 20th September at 09:00 -10:00 in the GeoCamp Marquee
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013_BirdsOfAFeather#Education_and_IC
>>>>A-
>>>> OSGeo_Labs_meeting
>>>>
>>>> See you in the evening at next OSGeo-Live BoF meeting
>>>>
>>>> Astrid
>>>>
>>>>
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