[Live-demo] [Workshops] OSGeoLive in FOSS4G 2014 workshops?

[Cameron Shorter]

Forwarding on conversation about OSGeo-Live and Mikael's FOSS4G workshop 
plans.

On 13/06/2014 4:05 pm, Mikael Blomberg wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
> of course you can cc the osgeolive email list with this thread.
>
> All assistance is welcomed and we'll start our install script 
> development after the holidays.
> We have used Ansible as our configuration management tool and a sample 
> playbook can be found here 
> https://github.com/nls-oskari/oskari-vagrant/blob/alpo/provisioning/site.yml
> The ALPO setup includes a development environment, which is 
> unnecessary in this case. A minified version of the JS codes and war 
> or standalone version of the Java backend would be enough for 
> OSGeo-live. The sample data is our biggest worry and how to add Oskari 
> specific tables to PostgreSQL and workspace into GeoServer. All advice 
> how to integrate nicely are appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
> Mikael
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Cameron Shorter 
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Mikael,
>     Is it ok if I cc the osgeolive email list with this thread?
>     Some of our technical people would like to comment on this thread.
>
>
>     On 7/06/2014 7:36 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>     Hi Mikael,
>>     Great to hear your intent re OSGeo-Live.
>>
>>     Yes, I do very much understand how much effort is required to get
>>     all versions of different applications working together.
>>     Hopefully OSGeo-Live can help in that regard.
>>
>>     I suggest using as much of the default OSGeo-Live versions as
>>     possible as a base, including using the datasets bundled with
>>     OSGeo-Live.
>>
>>     If you need to install anything else, I suggest writing an
>>     install script, following the default install script formats used
>>     by OSGeo-Live. [1]
>>
>>     You can then ask participants to run this script as the first
>>     step of the workshop. It would be worth discussing this idea on
>>     the osgeolive email list and get feedback. (Feel free to CC this
>>     email to the list if you wish).
>>
>>
>>     [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Install_Script
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Mikael Blomberg
>>     <mikael.blomberg at sc5.io <mailto:mikael.blomberg at sc5.io>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>         we are planning on using OSGeoLive as the basis for our workshop.
>>         We are presenting Oskari.org, which uses PostgreSQL, PostGIS,
>>         GeoServer, Geonetwork, Nginx, Jetty, Oracle JDK7, Redis,
>>         Graphicsmagick and Nodejs.
>>         You can probably image the amount of effort it takes to get
>>         everything working. Currently we are planning on using an
>>         ansible script to install the necessary software, but if it
>>         would be possible to include it in the distro, it would be
>>         awesome!
>>
>>         Perhaps we could work together to make it happen?
>>
>>         Best regards,
>>         Mikael Blomberg
>>
>>
>>         On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Cameron Shorter
>>         <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
>>         <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Hello FOSS4G Workshop presenters and organisors,
>>
>>             Our OSGeoLive team have started our build process for
>>             OSGeoLive 8.0, due to be released at FOSS4G 2014.
>>             If workshop presenters are considering making use of
>>             OSGeoLive, then please do let us know.
>>
>>             1. It is very motivating for our team to hear where
>>             osgeolive is being used.
>>
>>             2. We are keen to understand if there are any requests
>>             you have that we should consider for this release.
>>
>>             3. We have a feature freeze scheduled [1] for 30 days
>>             time, on 6 July 2014. I'm hoping this will provide
>>             projects with sufficient time to incorporate features
>>             they would like demonstrated in workshops? If not, please
>>             talk with us.
>>
>>
>>             [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Schedule
>>
>>
>>             -- 
>>             Cameron Shorter,
>>             Software and Data Solutions Manager
>>             LISAsoft
>>             Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>     -- 
>>     Cameron Shorter,
>>     Software and Data Solutions Manager
>>     LISAsoft
>>     Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>>     26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>>
>>     P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com <http://www.lisasoft.com>,
>>      F +61 2 9009 5099
>
>     -- 
>     Cameron Shorter,
>     Software and Data Solutions Manager
>     LISAsoft
>     Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>     26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>
>     P +61 2 9009 5000,  Wwww.lisasoft.com  <http://www.lisasoft.com>,  F +61 2 9009 5099
>
>

-- 
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099

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