[Live-demo] [Ica-osgeo-labs] Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM

Wed Oct 14 08:53:46 PDT 2015

Hi,
under the http://www.spatial-ecology.net/ initiative we  use the the
OSGeo-Llive for courses and intensive training in Geo Computation.

In this line we have been used also Amazon Web Service to teach remote
connection and scripting routines in the cloud. For this I was customize a
Ubuntu Instance very similar to the  OSGeo-Llive.

Nonetheless, would be grate  to have the OSGeo-Llive directly  hosted in
AWS to allow teach but also to provide to the course participants
something that they can use after the course.

The AWS Educate <https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/> provide
grants for education so maybe an official cooperation OSGeo&AWS can be a
solution to host for free a OSGeo-Llive Instance

Best Regards
Giuseppe

On 14 October 2015 at 10:52, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) <
bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:

> All,
>
> We’ve had success locally/regionally with preparing thumb drives with
> OSGeo-Live.  I’m not sure about running everything over the internet in a
> training scenario, but there may be some good reasons to put some of the
> services into a dedicated location for online use.
>
> The idea of having a online version running gets the idea mill running,
> what if something like that could be used to pick and choose from for
> preparing a USB drive for training sessions?
>
> bobb
>
>
> > On Oct 14, 2015, at 3:44 AM, Suchith Anand <
> Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Sure. I am ccing both the Education community and OSGeo live communities
> in this, so we get more ideas/inputs to make this possible.
> >
> > To give some background, we now have OSGeo Live being used not only for
> running workshops in FOSS4G conferences but in so many training
> programs/workshops/tutorials around the world. It is also a key resource
> for geoeducation. So to make it more easy and scaleable for organising and
> running  these training events globally, i would like to get inputs for
> Venka's ideas (details in email below)
> >
> > May i request all interested to please give your ideas/inputs esp. on
> >
> > 1.Do you think it is important to have a cloud service that runs the
> OSGeo-Live VM
> >
> > 2.What are the steps that we need to take to make this possible
> >
> > Looking forward to your inputs.
> >
> > Suchith
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Cameron Shorter [cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 8:17 PM
> > To: Suchith Anand; gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com; p.baumann at jacobs-university.de;
> venka.osgeo at gmail.com; Maria Antonia Brovelli
> > Subject: Re: Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that runs the
> OSGeo-Live VM
> >
> > Hi Suchith,
> > Good idea. Would it be ok if we discuss on a public email list? Probably
> > osgeo-live list, or education list.
> > Part of the success would come from people collating content for such a
> > course (which could be based on OSGeo-Live Quickstarts).
> >
> > Warm regards, Cameron
> >
> >
> >
> > On 14/10/2015 1:57 am, Suchith Anand wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >>
> >> Myself, Maria and Peter are now at ESA event and had a chance to catch
> up on ideas for future to expand education globally.
> >>
> >>
> >> I also remembered that few months back, we had an initial discussion
> on  the importance of having a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM to
> help running workshops at conferences, training events etc. Venka made this
> idea in one of the Geo4All AB discussions on workshops at FOSS4G Bonn that
> i copy below
> >>
> >>
> >> "Instead of buying 80-100 computers, it could be a worth considering to
> pay for a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM. Maybe one of our
> sponsoring companies could be approached to deploy such OSGeo Software as a
> Service solution.Such service could be made available to any
> event/institution wishing to run their own workshops anywhere place on
> earth with a good internet connection and thin client. For subsequent
> events or users could be charged to  cover cost of cloud hosting and paying
> for some developers to maintain the system.If the experiment is successful,
> we can think of replicating it in our globally through our local chapters."
> >>
> >>
> >> Me, Maria and Peter in our discussions today, thought it is good time
> to start doing something about this and have this for scaling up our
> education and training needs globally. So it will be good to get ideas from
> key people, so i request you all to give your thoughts/ideas.
> >>
> >>
> >> 1.Do you think it is important to have a cloud service that runs the
> OSGeo-Live VM.
> >>
> >> 2.What are the steps that we need to take to make this possible
> >>
> >> Looking forward to your inputs.
> >>
> >> Suchith
> >>
> >>
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