[Live-demo] draft 8.0 press release

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

Thanks Cameron for the draft, I also made some minor edits.
I agree with Hamish that we need a link to the errata page and/or trac instance.

Best,
Angelos

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 23/08/2014 5:22 pm, Hamish wrote:
>>
>> Cameron wrote:
>>>
>>> I've taken a first cut at our 8.0 press release. (Trying to keep it
>>> brief so that it gets read).
>>>
>>> Am I missing anything? Any extra we need to mention in the Release
>>> Highlights:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_54#Release_Highlights
>>
>>
>> Hi, thanks for doing that. I've just fixed a few small typos & such.
>
> Thanks
>
>> some small comments:
>>   - a direct link to the download page?
>
> added link to http://live.osgeo.org/en/download.html
>
>>   - some quantification from Alex's stats about how hundreds of people are
>> downloading and using it every week?
>
>
> Good idea. Alex?
>
>>   - maybe it's not the right place to link to the errata page*, but what
>> is?
>
> Probably here: http://live.osgeo.org/en/contact.html ?
>
>>   - mention somewhere/expand on that it runs on a wide array of PC and Mac
>> hardware with no drivers or anything else to install, not touching your
>> existing hard drives at all? unless you want it to.
>
> Tweaked "About OSGeo-Live" slightly to say can be "trialed without
> installing anything".
>
>>
>>
>> Today I've tested some with a burn to a DVD (I got an i/o error verifying
>> the disc but I think it's a burner/media issue not one with the iso), and
>> also tested on a 4gb usb without persistence space (we are big this time, so
>> no hope for that unless you have an 8gb+ usb).
>>
>>
>> [*] Errata page established, testing keeps turning up little things..
>>     http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc/Errata/8.0
>
> Thanks, I suggest providing a link to the problem report, so people can
> check to see the progress of the issue (maybe even fix it for us).
>>
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> Hamish
>
>
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Angelos Tzotsos
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National Technical University of Athens
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