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<div>[[Category:FOSS4G]]<br />
[[Category:FOSS4G2010]]<br />
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back to [[FOSS4G 2010]]<br />
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= Introduction =<br />
During the [http://2010.foss4g.org/ FOSS4G2010 conference] in Barcelona, Spain, there will be conference rooms available for people to hold Breakout Sessions (aka Birds-of-a-Feather).<br />
<br />
Breakout Sessions sessions are unstructured timeslots where people can self-organise themselves to discuss topics of interest.<br />
<br />
This year, Breakout Sessions sessions will be held on Wednesday 8th September ('''and possibly at other times as well - depending on interest'''). A number of rooms will be available. Most popular sessions will get bigger rooms.<br />
<br />
'''Room allocation to be determined'''<br />
<br />
==Organising Contact==<br />
* [[Tyler Mitchell]]<br />
* [[Mauricio Miranda]]<br />
* Other volunteers welcome - sign up here!<br />
<br />
==Timeslots Available==<br />
<br />
At this stage, each room is scheduled for one hour between 18:00 to 19:00.<br />
<br />
Remember the Gala Dinner is scheduled at 20:00.<br />
<br />
=Room Assignments=<br />
== Rooms Available ==<br />
<br />
We will need to share the biggest rooms because we have more sessions than rooms. <br />
<br />
Add your name to the "Moderator" column if you feel as a session's leader. <br />
<br />
Please, contact us to ask for changes. <br />
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{| class="wikitable" border="1"<br />
|-<br />
! width="120" | Room <br />
! width="250" | Tuesday 07 <br />
! width="250" | Wednesday 08 <br />
! width="300" | Moderator<br />
|-<br />
| Room 3 <br />
| <br />
*Flex Mapping (Alternatives to HTML)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
Sébastien Deleuze<br />
|-<br />
| Room 4 (75 pax) <br />
| <br />
| <br />
*QGIS user &amp; developer meeting<br />
<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Room 5 (250 pax) <br />
| <br />
| <br />
*Spatial Data Infrastructure <br />
*Virtualization and Cloud Computing BoF <br />
*Java GeoSpatial<br />
<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Room 6 (320 pax) <br />
| <br />
| <br />
*Sensor Web BoF <br />
*Biodiversity/conservation projects and FOSS4G tools <br />
*Spatial OLAP<br />
<br />
| <br />
*Simon Jirka<br />
*Javier de la Torre&nbsp;<br />
*-<br />
<br />
|-<br />
| Room 8 (100 pax) <br />
| <br />
| <br />
*Web Client (OpenLayers/GeoExt)<br />
<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Room 11 (78 pax) <br />
| <br />
| <br />
*WPS BoF<br />
<br />
|<br />
*Bastian Schäffer<br />
|-<br />
| Room 12 (90 pax) <br />
| <br />
| <br />
*Spatial Databases BoF<br />
<br />
| <br />
|}<br />
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= Proposed Topics =<br />
<br />
* Add yours below...<br />
<br />
==Web Client (OpenLayers/GeoExt)==<br />
<br />
The first half of this session will be focused on OpenLayers, and the second half will focus on GeoExt. We can decide on topics at the start of each session, but we'll likely cover ideas for OpenLayers 3.0/GeoExt 1.0, getting more developers involved, and just some general Q/A time.<br />
<br />
'''Coming:'''<br />
<br />
* Tim Schaub<br />
* Eric Lemoine<br />
* Frédéric Junod<br />
* David Jonglez - for the first half, at least<br />
* Florin Iosub<br />
* Xurxo Méndez<br />
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]] (depending on the schedule)<br />
* [[Nuno Guerreiro|Nuno Guerreiro]]<br />
* Hugo Pereira<br />
* [[Just van den Broecke|Just van den Broecke]]<br />
* Simon Lopez<br />
* Richard Greenwood<br />
* Andreas Hocevar<br />
* Volker Grabsch<br />
* Matthias Pohl<br />
* Kris Geusebroek - for the first (OpenLayers) half at least<br />
* Jeroen van Wilgenburg<br />
* Edwin Commandeur<br />
* Cédric Moullet<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
==Spatial Databases BoF==<br />
<br />
Relational and non-relational persistence layers, let's get together and talk about interoperability, appropriate use cases, architecture and where we should be moving the spatial persistence state-of-the-art!<br />
<br />
'''Coming:'''<br />
<br />
* Paul Ramsey (PostGIS)<br />
* Nicklas Avén (PostGIS)<br />
* Brent Wood (NIWA)<br />
* Peter Baumann (Jacobs University / rasdaman)<br />
* Vincent Picavet (Oslandia/PostGIS)<br />
* [[Nuno Guerreiro|Nuno Guerreiro]]<br />
* Olivier Courtin (PostGIS)<br />
* Hugo Pereira<br />
* Volker Mische (CouchDB/GeoCouch)<br />
* [[user:sebastian.ovide|Sebastián Ovide]]<br />
* [[user:hal_sk | Haruyuki Seki]]<br />
* [[user:aross | Andrew Ross]] (Ingres)<br />
* Alex Trofast (Ingres)<br />
* Paolo Corti<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
==WPS BoF==<br />
<br />
Several presentation on Web Processing selected <br />
for presentation at FOSS4G2010 indicates a growing<br />
interest amongst the communities.<br />
<br />
If you are interested please add your names below...<br />
<br />
'''Who's coming:'''<br />
<br />
* Venkatesh Raghavan<br />
* [[Markus Neteler]]<br />
* [[Daniel Kastl]]<br />
* Maria Brovelli<br />
* [[Ian Turton]]<br />
* [[Gerald Fenoy]]<br />
* Nicolas Bozon<br />
* [[Jody Garnett]]<br />
* [[User:fpenarru | Fran Peñarrubia]]<br />
* [[User:MarkusSchneider | Markus Schneider]]<br />
* Luca Delucchi<br />
* Milan Antonovic<br />
* [[User:Maxi71 | Massimiliano cannata]]<br />
* Luca Casagrande<br />
* [[User:Rajsingh| Raj Singh ]]<br />
* [[User:Jesus|Jorge de Jesus]] (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)<br />
* Bertrand Gervais<br />
* [[User:Schpidi | Stephan Meissl]]<br />
* [[Sebastián Cruz|Sebastián Cruz]]<br />
* Fernando González<br />
* Víctor González<br />
* Bastian Schäffer<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
==Sensor Web BoF==<br />
<br />
The use of Sensor Web implementations has constantly increased during the last years.<br />
<br />
If you are interested please add your names below...<br />
<br />
'''Who's coming:'''<br />
<br />
* Simon Jirka<br />
* Marjorie Robert <br />
* [[User:Maxi71 | Massimiliano cannata]]<br />
* Graeme Mcferren<br />
* Sarawut Ninsawat<br />
* Brent Wood (NIWA)<br />
* Jorge Piera<br />
* Alain Tamayo<br />
* Maria Brovelli<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
==Biodiversity/conservation projects and FOSS4G tools==<br />
<br />
More and more Open Source is catching on Biodiversity and conservation projects. Most of them are publicly funded so most of the time all the source they develop is Open Source. Aditionally Biodiversity and conservation heavily rely on GIS and they have specific needs. From geospatial niche modeling to species distributions, occurrence catalog, etc, there is a lot to talk about!<br />
<br />
If you are interested please add your names below...<br />
<br />
'''Coming:'''<br />
<br />
* Javier de la Torre (Vizzuality)<br />
* Brent Wood (NIWA)<br />
* [[Markus Neteler]]<br />
* [[User:jesus| Jorge de Jesus]] (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)<br />
* [[User:Aghisla|Anne Ghisla]]<br />
* Andrew W Hill (University of Colorado, Boulder)<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
==Spatial Data Infrastructure==<br />
<br />
A birds of a feather session about using open source for spatial data infrastructure. Come discuss implementation strategies, best practices, INSPIRE. <br />
<br />
'''Who's coming:'''<br />
<br />
* Sebastian Benthall (GeoNode)<br />
* David Winslow (GeoNode)<br />
* Ariel Núñez (GeoNode)<br />
* David Jonglez <br />
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]] (depending on the schedule)<br />
* Hugo Pereira<br />
* Maria Brovelli<br />
* [[Sebastián Cruz|Sebastián Cruz]]<br />
* [[user:sebastian.ovide|Sebastián Ovide]]<br />
* Sébastien Deleuze<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
==Virtualization and Cloud Computing BoF==<br />
<br />
Virtualization and Cloud Computing is growing fast on the GIS world, let's get together and talk about the use cases and share opinions and suggestions about how can we take the most out of this new technology!<br />
<br />
If you are interested please add your name below...<br />
<br />
'''Coming:'''<br />
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]]<br />
* Hugo Pereira<br />
* [[Sebastián Cruz|Sebastián Cruz]]<br />
* [[user:sebastian.ovide|Sebastián Ovide]]<br />
* Cédric Moullet<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
==Spatial OLAP==<br />
<br />
Spatial OLAP can be defined as a visual platform built especially to support rapid and easy spatiotemporal analysis and exploration of data following a multidimensional approach comprised of aggregation levels available in cartographic displays as well as in tabular and diagram displays. Let's talk about new improvements combining GIS and BI technologies.<br />
<br />
If you are interested please add your name below...<br />
<br />
'''Coming:'''<br />
* [[Nuno Guerreiro|Nuno Guerreiro]]<br />
* [[User:Rajsingh| Raj Singh ]]<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
==Flex Mapping (Alternatives to HTML)==<br />
<br />
Flex is a highly productive, free, open source framework for building expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. <br />
OpenScales is an open source (LGPL) mapping framework written in ActionScript 3 and Flex that allows developers to building Rich Internet Mapping Applications.<br />
There are alternatives to HTML mapping, let's discuss about them...<br />
<br />
If you are interested please add your name below...<br />
<br />
'''Coming:'''<br />
* Sébastien Deleuze (OpenScales)<br />
* Simon Lopez (OpenScales)<br />
* Fabio Panettieri<br />
* Marjorie Robert (if the session is planned on tuesday)<br />
* [[Ricardo Pinho|Ricardo Pinho]] (depending on the schedule)<br />
* David Jonglez (depending on the schedule)<br />
* Javier de la Torre - Vizzuality (depending on the schedule)<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
This session is scheduled tuesday in Room3 at 18:00<br />
<br />
==QGIS user & developer meeting==<br />
<br />
Topics:<br />
* What's new in QGIS 1.5<br />
* Interesting plugins<br />
* What's coming in the next QGIS release<br />
* Discussion<br />
<br />
If you are interested please add your name below...<br />
<br />
'''Coming:'''<br />
* Marco Hugentobler<br />
* [[User:Pirmin_Kalberer| Pirmin Kalberer]]<br />
* Mathias Walker<br />
* [[User:Vasile| Vasile Crăciunescu]]<br />
* [[User:Lmotta| Luiz Motta]]<br />
* Richard Duivenvoorde<br />
* [[User:hdus | Horst Düster]]<br />
* [[User:yoichi | Yoichi Kayama]]<br />
* Nobusuke Iwasaki<br />
* [[Milena Nowotarska | Milena Nowotarska]]<br />
* Add your name here<br />
<br />
== Java GeoSpatial (GeoTools, GeoServer, uDig, etc...) ==<br />
<br />
Topics:<br />
<br />
If you are a user or developer in the "Java Tribe" come check out this BOF. You can let the developers know what you like, what you don't like, and what sorts of features and developments you would like to see in the future.<br />
<br />
'''Coming:'''<br />
<br />
* [[User:jdeolive | Justin Deoliveira]]<br />
* [[User:cholmes | Chris Holmes]]<br />
* Add your name here</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Live_GIS_Disc&diff=28990Live GIS Disc2008-09-15T08:42:03Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
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<div>== Goal ==<br />
<br />
To create a live CD\DVD with as much OSGEO software as possible to be used in workshops, as handouts at conferences and to demonstrate a full functioning FOSS GIS stack.<br />
<br />
==Communication==<br />
<br />
* Communication on the [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-general Debian GIS list]<br />
* IRC will be on irc://freenode.net#osgeo<br />
* Logs:<br />
** [http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2008-09-11.log Kickoff discussion]<br />
<br />
<br />
== What exists as of September, 11 2008 ==<br />
<br />
{|border="1"<br />
!Authors!!Distro Base!!Packages!!Building tool!!Link<br />
|-<br />
|Camptocamp <br />
|Ubuntu: <br />
|MapGuideOS, adding SDI?<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|LisaSoft <br />
|Ubuntu<br />
|PostGIS, geoserver, gvsig<br />
|[[LISAsoft-LiveCD process]]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Ominiverdi<br />
|Xubuntu<br />
| QGIS, Grass, PostGIS, GDAL, R<br />
|[http://uck.sourceforge.net/ UCK]<br />
|[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org/index.php?page=LiveCD&toc=livecd Omini Edu Live]<br />
|-<br />
|Gvsig<br />
|Knoppix <br />
|Postgis, geoserver, deegree, geonetwork<br />
|<br />
|[http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=1992&L=0&K=1 gvsig live]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== LiveCD for [[FOSS4G2008]] contents ==<br />
<br />
* '''Base Distribution:''' Xubuntu<br />
* We will start from the Ominiverdi [http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/ image]<br />
* LISAsoft will add Geoserver and hopefully other java packages<br />
<br />
=== Contents ===<br />
<br />
=== Build Process ===<br />
<br />
=== LiveCD for FOSS4G2008 Schedule ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1"<br />
!Date!!Milestone!!Responsible<br />
|-<br />
|| Fr 12 Sept || <s>IRC kickoff meeting</s>||<br />
|-<br />
|| Fr 19 Sept || Draft ISO to be released for testing (feature freeze) ||<br />
|-<br />
|| We 24 Sept || Final ISO complete ||<br />
|-<br />
|| Th 25 Sept? || Burn CDs || Tim Bowden<br />
|-<br />
|| Mo 29 Sept || FOSS4G 2008 Starts||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Who's helping ===<br />
* LISAsoft can provide equivalent of 1 resource, split between Mark Leslie, Stefan Hansen, Volker Mische, & Cameron Shorter.<br />
* jsanz, chevi<br />
* wildintellect have offered 2 days<br />
* Tim Bowden is looking into CD burning<br />
* Luca Casagrande and Ominiverdi Family<br />
* ... (add your name)<br />
<br />
== Long Term Plan ==<br />
Not discussed yet.<br />
<br />
== Links to Build tool options ==<br />
* [http://packages.debian.org/sid/live-helper live-helper]<br />
* [http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/HowToCreateYourOwnGNULinuxDistribution Gnewsense method]<br />
* [http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-linux-mint-livecd-with-remastersys Remastersys]<br />
* [http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-customize-your-ubuntu-live-cd Debian\Ubuntu Tricks]<br />
* [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization Ubuntu Help Way]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Live_GIS_Disc&diff=28989Live GIS Disc2008-09-15T08:40:33Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>== Goal ==<br />
<br />
To create a live CD\DVD with as much OSGEO software as possible to be used in workshops, as handouts at conferences and to demonstrate a full functioning FOSS GIS stack.<br />
<br />
==Communication==<br />
<br />
* Communication on the [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-general Debian GIS list]<br />
* IRC will be on irc://freenode.net#osgeo<br />
* Logs:<br />
** [http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2008-09-11.log Kickoff discussion]<br />
<br />
<br />
== What exists as of September, 11 2008 ==<br />
<br />
{|border="1"<br />
!Authors!!Distro Base!!Packages!!Building tool!!Link<br />
|-<br />
|Camptocamp <br />
|Ubuntu: <br />
|MapGuideOS, adding SDI?<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|LisaSoft <br />
|Ubuntu<br />
|PostGIS, geoserver, gvsig<br />
|[[LISAsoft-LiveCD process]]<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|Ominiverdi<br />
|Xubuntu<br />
| QGIS, Grass, PostGIS, GDAL, R<br />
|[http://uck.sourceforge.net/]<br />
|[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org/index.php?page=LiveCD&toc=livecd Omini Edu Live]<br />
|-<br />
|Gvsig<br />
|Knoppix <br />
|Postgis, geoserver, deegree, geonetwork<br />
|<br />
|[http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=1992&L=0&K=1 gvsig live]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== LiveCD for [[FOSS4G2008]] contents ==<br />
<br />
* '''Base Distribution:''' Xubuntu<br />
* We will start from the Ominiverdi [http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/ image]<br />
* LISAsoft will add Geoserver and hopefully other java packages<br />
<br />
=== Contents ===<br />
<br />
=== Build Process ===<br />
<br />
=== LiveCD for FOSS4G2008 Schedule ===<br />
<br />
{|border="1"<br />
!Date!!Milestone!!Responsible<br />
|-<br />
|| Fr 12 Sept || <s>IRC kickoff meeting</s>||<br />
|-<br />
|| Fr 19 Sept || Draft ISO to be released for testing (feature freeze) ||<br />
|-<br />
|| We 24 Sept || Final ISO complete ||<br />
|-<br />
|| Th 25 Sept? || Burn CDs || Tim Bowden<br />
|-<br />
|| Mo 29 Sept || FOSS4G 2008 Starts||<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Who's helping ===<br />
* LISAsoft can provide equivalent of 1 resource, split between Mark Leslie, Stefan Hansen, Volker Mische, & Cameron Shorter.<br />
* jsanz, chevi<br />
* wildintellect have offered 2 days<br />
* Tim Bowden is looking into CD burning<br />
* ... (add your name)<br />
<br />
== Long Term Plan ==<br />
Not discussed yet.<br />
<br />
== Links to Build tool options ==<br />
* [http://packages.debian.org/sid/live-helper live-helper]<br />
* [http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/HowToCreateYourOwnGNULinuxDistribution Gnewsense method]<br />
* [http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-linux-mint-livecd-with-remastersys Remastersys]<br />
* [http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-customize-your-ubuntu-live-cd Debian\Ubuntu Tricks]<br />
* [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization Ubuntu Help Way]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=OSGeo_education_interested_participants&diff=26780OSGeo education interested participants2008-06-23T08:25:13Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
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<div>== Contributors by Interest ==<br />
The following are individuals who have self-identified themselves as interested in contributing or assisting with [[Education and Curriculum Committee]] projects. You are welcome to add yourself to the list and identify areas that you are particular familiar with or interested in contributing to.<br />
<br />
* [[User:Punkish | Puneet Kishor]] (TZ GMT-6)<br />
* [[User: ajolma | Ari Jolma]] (TZ GMT+2) (graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; primary school education)<br />
* [[User:Neteler | Markus Neteler ]] (TZ GMT+1) (general training/education materials; [http://www.grassbook.org/data_menu3rd.php educational datasets])<br />
* [[User:Venkat | Venkatesh Raghavan ]] (TZ GMT+9)(training/education material; educational datasets, software packaging, translation, e-learning Course Management Systems, Moodle,Certification Mechanisms, experience in international training) <br />
* [[User:Schweik | Charlie Schweik]] (Chair) (TZ GMT-5) (undergraduate and graduate level education; academic research on open source collaboration, public sector information technology, natural resource management)<br />
* [[User:Pnaciona|Pericles Nacionales]] (general training/education materials; conservation and natural resource management) <br />
* Ned Horning (Winter: GMT-5 Summer: GMT -4) (Interested in promoting open source software development and integrating open source into the conservation community)<br />
* [[User:Tmitchell | Tyler Mitchell]] (TZ GMT-8) (interested in workshop material and curriculum development for high school through to university)<br />
* [[User:Arnulf Christl | Arnulf Christl]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for fulltime workshops, trainings and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software. Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials). (Interest in enhancing presentation material, publishing under Free license, in time hardcopy production, maintenance and update of content just as any OS dev project)<br />
* [[User:Scw | Shaun Walbridge]] (TZ GMT-8) (academic research on open source collaboration; general training/education materials; educational datasets)<br />
* [[User:Perrygeo | Matthew Perry]] (TZ GMT-8) (primarily interested in workshops/lab materials for university students, NGOs and using open source software to demonstrate all fundamental aspects of GIS (theory and practice). Also interested in seeing 'official' training courses and certification)<br />
* [[User:ianturton|Ian Turton]] : Penn State Uni, State College, developed Open Web Mapping course at Uni of Leeds, UK [http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/postgrad/geog5780/] now modifying it for PennState. ianturton at gmail com [http://www.geovista.psu.edu/members/turton/index.html work] [http://pennspace.blogspot.com/ blog]<br />
* [[User:Aaronr | Aaron Racicot]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in fostering more collaboration with academia through the introduction of open source GIS in the curriculum. Mainly interested in Undergraduate and Graduate level education and industry (NGO's and for-profit) collaboration. Certification is also an interest.)<br />
* [[User:helena| Helena Mitasova]] (TZ GMT-5) NCSU, Raleigh,NC, GRASS PSC member, interested in graduate level education and research, development of tutorials and workshops, educational dataset, publishing books and journal articles<br />
* [[User:maria | Maria Antonia Brovelli]] (TZ GMT+1) (Polytechnic of Milan and Polytecnic of Zurich, interested in Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorat level education; academic research on new algorithms developed within open source GIS, on public sector information technology and NSDI, on environment and territory management)<br />
* [[User:volaya| Victor Olaya]] (TZ GMT+1) Spanish Free GIS Book PSC Member. University of Extremadura, Spain. Sextante Proyect [http://www.sextantegis.com]. Interested in creating a free GIS book in spanish and english, and in finding out how both the spanish and the english teams can collaborate and help each other.<br />
* [[User:Maxi71| Massimiliano Cannata]] (TZ GMT+1) (Institute of Earth Sciences - University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Graduate and Continuing education; research and development in the field of Web-GIS and Environmental Modelling; consultant for the public administration authorities on environment, land and natural resources management)<br />
* [[User:rob.braswell | Bobby H. Braswell]] (TZ GMT-5) (developing documentation in the form of tutorial modules for training and education, especially related to earth science and remote sensing research)<br />
* [[User:VincentP | Vincent Picavet]] (TZ GMT+1) OSGeo Francophone local chapter and Makina Corpus, FLOSS company. Interested in workshops and courses for FOSS GIS web applications and infrastructures. Particular interest in French language material, translation, and coordination between multi-languages groups.<br />
* [[User:Bwoodall | Bill Woodall]] (TZ GMT-8) (Interested in workshops/labs for Youth, primarily for 4-H Youth Development Program )<br />
* [[User:Mleslie | Mark Leslie]] (TZ GMT+10) Interested in workshop and lab material for a general or technical audience.<br />
* [[User:mlennert | Moritz Lennert ]] (TZ GMT+1) (University undergraduate GIS teaching lab and training course for professionals from "developing" countries; e-learning)<br />
* [[User:nigeltrodd | Nigel Trodd]] (TZ GMT+0) (Developed University undergraduate and postgraduate GIS and remote sensing courses for UNIGIS [http://www.unigis.org.uk] and Coventry University (UK) campus for geoimaging and geoinformatics [http://www.giscampus.f2s.com/gigi/topics.htm]; curriculum development, pedagogic and design issues as they pertain to GI novices and professionals; e-learning; interested in collaborating to develop courses for niche application domains, such as environmental hazards, that build on common materials)<br />
* [[User:ominiverdi | Lorenzo Becchi ]] (TZ GMT+1) (Web GIS developer, FAO cunsultant, interested in everything that can help reducing Digital Divide worldwide and support open knowledge, supporting the spanish GIS book)<br />
* [[User:Martinweis | Martin Weis]] (TZ GMT+1) Geodesy/GIS in the agricultural sector/university: I would like to prepare courses and material for the use of FOSS in precision farming. Desktop GIS and SDI are to be integrated for this. 2008 I will have a GIS course, let's see what can be done...<br />
* [[User:Smitch | Scott Mitchell ]] (TZ GMT-5) Courseware, tutorials and workshops for FOSS4G tools in general, but have been especially interested / involved in GRASS, GDAL/OGR (user perspective), QGIS, Mapserver; would be interested in contributing to books projects, but time commitments prevent much from me until 2008.<br />
* [[User:kevin1216 | Kevin Yam]] (TZ GMT-5) Primarily interested in promoting open source software training, workshop and lab materials for university students, NGOs, public sectors.<br />
* [[User:Marco | Marco Ciolli]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS, PhD; academic research; forestry; natural resource management and environmental hazard.)<br />
* [[User:clara | Clara Tattoni]] (TZ GMT+1) (University of Trento. General training/education materials; graduate level education MS; research; natural resource management; wildlife conservation and management.)<br />
*[[User:Astrid Emde]] (TZ GMT+2) (Experience as GIS instructor for workshops and courses. Organization of commercial training courses with Open Source Geospatial Software.(Mapbender, UMN MapServer, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, WMS/WFS, GeoServer) Preparation of course and presentation material, tutorials. Interest in enhancing presentation material)<br />
*[[User: Mardresen | Martin Dresen]] (TZ GMT+1) (Interest in developing Desktop GIS tutorials, exercises, presentations for university courses, further education, advanced training - especially in german!)<br />
* Suchith Anand [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/geography/contacts/staffPages/SuchithAnand/Suchith%20Anand.htm] (TZ GMT+0) (Interested in Open source GIS course and curriculum development, GIS education)<br />
*[[User: Dreamcon | Paul Flemming]] (TZ GMT-5) (Would be interested in helping to develop material for use in Senior elementary, grades 5 to 8, and High Schools to promote and explain the use of GIS in the real world)<br />
*[[User: doktoreas | Luca Casagrande]] (TZ GMT+1) Main developer of the Ominiverdi Livecd Project<br />
<br />
== Contributors by Time Zones ==<br />
This should help in planning meetings. If you are not here yet, please add your info, or let me know and I will do so. Going from East to West, we have --<br />
<br />
* TZ GMT+9<br />
** Venkatesh Raghavan<br />
* TZ GMT+2<br />
** Ari Jolma<br />
** Arnulf Christl<br />
* TZ GMT+1<br />
** Markus Neteler<br />
** Maria Antonia Brovelli<br />
** Massimiliano Cannata<br />
** Vincent Picavet<br />
** Marco Ciolli <br />
** Clara Tattoni <br />
** Olutoyin Justus Oloniteru<br />
** Martin Dresen<br />
** Luca Casagrande<br />
* TZ GMT+0<br />
** Nigel Trodd<br />
* TZ GMT-5<br />
** Ian Turton<br />
** Ned Horning<br />
** Charlie Schweik, Maria Fernandez, Alexander Stepanov, Rob Braswell<br />
** Scott Mitchell<br />
* TZ GMT-6<br />
** Puneet Kishor<br />
** Pericles Nacionales<br />
* TZ GMT-8<br />
** Tyler Mitchell<br />
** Shaun Walbridge<br />
** Matthew Perry<br />
** Aaron Racicot<br />
** Bill Woodall<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Education]]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=FOSS_for_GIS_video_tutorials_and_screencasts&diff=25213FOSS for GIS video tutorials and screencasts2008-05-22T11:00:08Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>This is page is a try to create a central index of all available Video Tutorials and Screencasts about FOSS for GIS.<br />
<br />
As creating a central repository is not easy due to licenses, video formats and disk space we are using this page to list all pages hosting interesting videos.<br />
<br />
please add you contribute at the bottom of the list respecting the table layout<br />
<br />
== Screencasts and Video List==<br />
this part is dedicated to short movies showing technical usage of FOSS GIS applications.<br />
Less than 10 mins each, please.<br />
<br />
{| cellspacing="1" border="1" cellpadding="3"<br />
|- bgcolor=#d5d5d5<br />
! title and link<br />
! author <br />
! license<br />
! duration<br />
! format<br />
! description<br />
|-<br />
| [http://openlayers.org/presentations/mappingyourdata/ Mapping your Data]<br />
| Chris Schmidt<br />
| not specified<br />
| 4 min <br />
| flash movie<br />
| <br />
Using QGIS, Mapserver and Openlayers to easily set up a web mapping application. <br />
[http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/MappingYourData Large description]<br />
|-<br />
| [http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Video+Tutorials GeoServer Tutorials]<br />
| Chris Holmes<br />
| not specified<br />
| many videos<br />
| flash movie<br />
| List of all official GeoServer tutorials<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/ GRASS 6 Voxel tutorials]<br />
| Soeren Gebbert<br />
| not specified<br />
| many videos<br />
| flash movie<br />
| Using GRASS 6 to create 3D flow simulations etc.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.reprojected.com/geoblog/how-tos/video/ FOSS GIS tutorials]<br />
| Aaron Racicot<br />
| CC<br />
| many videos<br />
| flash movie<br />
| Tutorials from www.reprojected.com. Examples include building a new Linux GIS box and building QGIS using Python bindings...<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.foss4g2006.org/internalPage.py?pageId=21&confId=1 FOSS4G2006 conference video memories]<br />
| Various<br />
| not specified<br />
| several videos<br />
| quicktime movie<br />
| Lightning Talks, Keynotes, Sponsor talks, ...<br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZOQSn5tyqQ Riflessioni sul tema(tismo)]<br />
| Pibinko<br />
| not specified<br />
| 3min<br />
| flash movie<br />
| GFOSS.it video<br />
|-<br />
| [http://sextantegis.com/video.htm Sextante examples ( gvSIG)]<br />
| Victor Ayala<br />
| CC<br />
| several videos<br />
| flash and avi<br />
| Using Sextante with gvSIG<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Presentations and long Speaches==<br />
<br />
Long public presentations of FOSS GIS softwares<br />
{| cellspacing="1" border="1" cellpadding="3"<br />
|- bgcolor=#d5d5d5<br />
! title and link<br />
! author <br />
! license<br />
! duration<br />
! format<br />
! description<br />
|-<br />
| [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2952942874211397735&hl=en TikiWiki Map]<br />
| Franck Martin<br />
| not specified<br />
| many videos<br />
| flash movie<br />
| Tutorials on setting up the TikiWiki map environment<br />
|-<br />
| [http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-3923618086187138447 Chris Holmes, GeoServer presentation at Google TechTalks]<br />
| Martin Weis<br />
| not specified<br />
| 54 min<br />
| flash movie<br />
| <br />
* Introduction to GeoServer,<br />
* GeoSpatial Open Standards,<br />
* GeoServer and Google Earth,<br />
* Future, towards collaborative data<br />
|-<br />
| [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1253140894465183624&hl=en Mapserver WMS on Google Earth]<br />
| Franck Martin<br />
| not specified<br />
| 11 min<br />
| flash movie<br />
| Another video on using WMS from mapserver with Google Earth.<br />
|-<br />
|?<br />
|?<br />
|?<br />
|?<br />
|?<br />
|?<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==How to do your screencast==<br />
please add your suggestions on how you did your screencast.<br />
Please try to use and suggest Free Software.<br />
<br />
===Linux===<br />
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekfeisty/screencast Ubuntu discussion over screencast]<br />
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/RecordingScreencasts Ubuntu screencast how to]<br />
* [http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/ vnc2swf] to record a flash movie ([http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/screenshots/vnc2swf_usage.html short vnc2swf usage tutorial])<br />
<br />
===Mac===<br />
* [http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/203/openlayers-screencast/ Chris Schmidt experience on Os X]<br />
<br />
===Windows===<br />
* [http://www.menasoft.com/blog/?p=30 Taksi - Desktop Screenshot, Video Capture/Recorder] - worked well for capturing OpenGL output (I used it to record from [http://vterrain.org/Doc/Enviro/overview.html VTerrain's Enviro viewer])<br />
<br />
==Where to publish your screencast==<br />
<br />
Actually main free video hosting are using a strong dowsampling that does not allow a good video quality to present screencast.<br />
<br />
Then you'll need to find your own web hosting or a free one that can host just the video without resampling.<br />
<br />
===Hosting Portals===<br />
<br />
There are specialized hosting services for tutorials:<br />
<br />
* [http://showmedo.com ShowMeDo!]<br />
* [http://www.learn2use.de/index.php Learn2Use] (German)<br />
<br />
===Suggestions===<br />
* What about distribution the videos with a bittorrent-style distribution? Maybe OSGeo could provide the infrastructure for this?<br />
<br />
== GIS- and Geo-related Podcasts ==<br />
<br />
Some suggestions from the hivemind (note these are not necessarily open source specific):<br />
<br />
* Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com/ offers regular podcasts. They occasionally have open source related content by Adena Schutzberg (Directions staff) and others.<br />
<br />
* http://www.opengeodata.org/?cat=13<br />
<br />
* http://hobu.biz/category/podcast/ (note: links seem to be dead as of 15 Jan '08)<br />
<br />
* IT Conversations has a lot of good content, http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/index.html<br />
<br />
[[Category:Education]]<br />
[[Category:Marketing]]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13395Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-31T13:03:53Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Desktop 2007.0 */</p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". Using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, once the machine it's shut down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Applications==<br />
<br />
There are many applications that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite system everywhere you can find a pc. With a Pen Drive to save your data you'll have a perfect survival kit.<br />
#Teaching purpose: During workshop, your listeners can have anything you think it's appropriate to increase the learning process.<br />
#Using old machine: liveCd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD!<br />
#Spreading data: it's a very cool way to distribute your work around. You deliver your work ( for example output of complex elaboration ) and all application needed and configured to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
Inside a livecd we have got the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that could suite all the machine that have been created; can happen that, during the boot, the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missing lan detection for example). Thanks to the work of a lot of people ( in primis [ http://www.knoppix.net/ Knoppix ] we have very good softwares that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.As you can understand, the idea of having a universal machine it's an high expectation and the road to reach it, still long.<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveroment. This is good from a side (for example for keeping safe your hard disk) but can be tedious from another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your outputs. This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=LiveCd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
LiveCd can be a valid tool if applied with open source geospatial software.<br />
<br />
An example of the use of liveCd and GIS FOSS application, it's running a workstation that will allow the user to explore data inside it or, for example, in a remote Postgis DB. You could use old machine to make access point to the database and set up it with the viewer that it's always opened (as Internet Point do for browser) and allow saving data on storage device.<br />
<br />
During the FOSS4G 2007 at Lausanne we used 2 LiveCds during seminaries (ka-Map and Grass 3d). We've allowed attendants to test immediately what they were seeing in the slide show. Once the workshop ended they have been able to take away their liveCd and use it at home or at their office. This is a good example of the great potential of liveCd in Educational purpose.<br />
<br />
=Ominiverdi Livecd=<br />
<br />
==Objective==<br />
<br />
Our livecd will try to offer to user always those things:<br />
<br />
#Keep all software up to date with every single official release<br />
#Include Guide, Documents and Tutorial<br />
#Grant a good hardware compatibilty<br />
<br />
==Tecnical development==<br />
<br />
We decided to use the same tool that Gentoo Release Engineering use: Catalyst. <br />
<br />
This choice as been made for 2 main reason: <br />
<br />
#Use a system that will keep the updating fast and safe<br />
#Allow the customization of everything inside the cd<br />
<br />
==Desktop 2007.0==<br />
Our first release for 2007 contains these software:<br />
<br />
* QGIS 0.8<br />
* GRASS 6.2.1<br />
* PostgreSQL 8.1.5<br />
* PostGIS 1.1.4<br />
* GDAL 1.3.2 <br />
<br />
System run on a kernel 2.6.18 and use Gnome as Desktop Manager.<br />
<br />
While writing this abstract, we are waiting for Qgis 0.8.1 for releasing version 2007.1.<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13394Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-31T13:01:16Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introduction=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". Using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, once the machine it's shut down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Applications==<br />
<br />
There are many applications that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite system everywhere you can find a pc. With a Pen Drive to save your data you'll have a perfect survival kit.<br />
#Teaching purpose: During workshop, your listeners can have anything you think it's appropriate to increase the learning process.<br />
#Using old machine: liveCd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD!<br />
#Spreading data: it's a very cool way to distribute your work around. You deliver your work ( for example output of complex elaboration ) and all application needed and configured to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
Inside a livecd we have got the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that could suite all the machine that have been created; can happen that, during the boot, the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missing lan detection for example). Thanks to the work of a lot of people ( in primis [ http://www.knoppix.net/ Knoppix ] we have very good softwares that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.As you can understand, the idea of having a universal machine it's an high expectation and the road to reach it, still long.<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveroment. This is good from a side (for example for keeping safe your hard disk) but can be tedious from another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your outputs. This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=LiveCd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
LiveCd can be a valid tool if applied with open source geospatial software.<br />
<br />
An example of the use of liveCd and GIS FOSS application, it's running a workstation that will allow the user to explore data inside it or, for example, in a remote Postgis DB. You could use old machine to make access point to the database and set up it with the viewer that it's always opened (as Internet Point do for browser) and allow saving data on storage device.<br />
<br />
During the FOSS4G 2007 at Lausanne we used 2 LiveCds during seminaries (ka-Map and Grass 3d). We've allowed attendants to test immediately what they were seeing in the slide show. Once the workshop ended they have been able to take away their liveCd and use it at home or at their office. This is a good example of the great potential of liveCd in Educational purpose.<br />
<br />
=Ominiverdi Livecd=<br />
<br />
==Objective==<br />
<br />
Our livecd will try to offer to user always those things:<br />
<br />
#Keep all software up to date with every single official release<br />
#Include Guide, Documents and Tutorial<br />
#Grant a good hardware compatibilty<br />
<br />
==Tecnical development==<br />
<br />
We decided to use the same tool that Gentoo Release Engineering use: Catalyst. <br />
<br />
This choice as been made for 2 main reason: <br />
<br />
#Use a system that will keep the updating fast and safe<br />
#Allow the customization of everything inside the cd<br />
<br />
==Desktop 2007.0==<br />
Our first release for 2007 contains these software:<br />
<br />
* QGIS 0.8<br />
* GRASS 6.2.1<br />
* PostgreSQL 8.1.5<br />
* PostGIS 1.1.4<br />
* GDAL 1.3.2 <br />
<br />
All the system run on a kernel 2.6.18 and use Gnome as Desktop Manager.<br />
<br />
While writing this abstract, we are waiting for Qgis 0.8.1 for releasing version 2007.1.<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Distribution_Special_Interest_Groups&diff=13393Distribution Special Interest Groups2007-03-31T09:47:44Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>It has been proposed to create and promote a group of interest for distribution related issues. Main goals of this kind of initiative is raising the interest towards distributions (mainly GNU/Linux, but not limited to it) among upstream developers and create a stable and well-stated channel of communication between packagers and developers. Some aspects of distribution development and maintainance, as well as quality assurance practices are often quite obscure for many upstream developers indeed, but essential to ensure an easy approach to free GIS for naive or also advanced users.<br />
<br />
Well known GNU/Linux distributions which have a GIS dedicated team are:<br />
<br />
* [http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/ Debian]<br />
* [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UbuntuGIS Ubuntu]<br />
* [http://www.geolivre.org.br/modules/mydownloads/ Geolivre Linux]<br />
* [http://gentoo-gis.sourceforge.net/ Gentoo]<br />
<br />
RPM-based distributions, such as Fedora Linux and SuSE Linux, do not have a dedicated GIS teams, but there are several parties maintaining independent RPM archives that could be persuaded to band their efforts together under the aegis of the foundation:<br />
<br />
* [http://mappinghacks.com/rpm/ Mapping Hacks Fedora RPMs] -- maintained by SchuylerErle<br />
* [ftp://intevation.de/freegis/fedora/ intevation.de Fedora RPMs]<br />
* [http://postgis.refractions.net/rpms/ PostGIS RPMs for Fedora] from [http://www.refractions.net/ Refractions Research]<br />
* [http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software Mandriva and SuSe RPMs] -- maintained by GDF Hannover<br />
* [http://wgrass.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/foss4g/ Mandriva CD ISO Image] -- maintained by Osaka City University FOSS4G Team<br />
<br />
Unlike the Debian-GIS SIG, which already has mailing list / code repository infrastructure, the RPM-using community does not have such infrastructure and would benefit from hosting by OSGeo.</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13329Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-28T23:26:20Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, as soon as the machine it's shuted down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#Using old machine: livecd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD.<br />
#Spreading data: it's a very cool way of spread your work around. You deliver your work ( for example data ) and all application needed to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
Inside a livecd we have got the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that could suite all the machine that have been created; can happen that, during the boot the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missing lan detection for example). During the years, have been created very good tool that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.<br />
So you must see a failing boot, as a crash..that will be fixed soon!<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveroment. This is good from a side ( for example for keeping safe your data) but can be thedius for another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your output.This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
Livecd can be a valid tool togheter with open source Geospatial software. It could be used in one of the situation we already exaplained so that an easy access to user that wanna try those new application.<br />
An example of the use of livecd and GFOSS application, it's running a workstation that will allow the user to explore data inside it or, for example, in a Postgis DB. Using old hardware you could spread those kind of workstation all around the office.<br />
<br />
During the FOSS4G at Lausanne we used 2 Livecd during seminaries (kamap and Grass 3d). In this way we could let the user test immediately what they were seeing in the slideshow. This is a good example of the great potential of livecd in Educational purpose.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Ominiverdi Livecd=<br />
<br />
==Objective==<br />
<br />
Our livecd will try to offer to user always those things:<br />
<br />
#Keep all software up to date with every single official release<br />
#Include Guide, Documents and Tutorial<br />
#Grant a good hardware compatibilty<br />
<br />
==Tecnical development==<br />
<br />
We decided to use the same tool that Gentoo Release Engineering use: Catalyst. <br />
<br />
This choice as been made for 2 main reason: <br />
<br />
#Use a system that will keep the updating fast and safe<br />
#Allow the customization of everything inside the cd<br />
<br />
==Desktop 2007.0==<br />
Our first releease contains those software:<br />
<br />
* QGIS 0.8<br />
* GRASS 6.2.1<br />
* PostgreSQL 8.1.5<br />
* PostGIS 1.1.4<br />
* GDAL 1.3.2 <br />
<br />
All the system run on a kernel 2.6.18 and use Gnome as Desktop Manager.<br />
<br />
While writing this abstract, we are waiting for Qgis 0.8.1 for releasing a new version.<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13328Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-28T23:21:40Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, as soon as the machine it's shuted down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#Using old machine: livecd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD.<br />
#Showing project: it's a very cool way of spread your work aroun. You deliver your work ( for example data ) and all application needed to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
When building a livecd, it contains both the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that are used for all the machine, so can happen that, during the boot the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missine lan detection for example). During the years, have been created very good tool that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.<br />
So you must see a failing boot, as a crash..that will be fixed soon.<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveiroment. This is good from a side ( for example for keeping safe your data) but can be thedius for another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your output.This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
Livecd can be a valid tool togheter with open source Geospatial software. It could be used in one of the situation we already exaplained so that an easy access to user that wanna try those new application.<br />
An example of the use of livecd and GFOSS application, it's running a workstation that will allow the user to explore data inside it or, for example, in a Postgis DB. Using old hardware you could spread those kind of workstation all around the office.<br />
<br />
During the FOSS4G at Lausanne we used 2 Livecd during seminaries. In this way we could let the user test immediately what they were seeing in the slideshow. This is a good example of the great potential of livecd in Educational purpose.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Ominiverdi Livecd=<br />
<br />
==Objective==<br />
<br />
Our livecd will try to offer to user always this thing:<br />
<br />
#Keep all software up to date with every single official release<br />
#Include Guide, Documents and Tutorial<br />
#Grant a good hardware compatibilty<br />
<br />
==Tecnical development==<br />
<br />
We decided to use the same tool that Gentoo Release Engineering use: Catalyst. <br />
<br />
This choice as been made for 2 main reason: <br />
<br />
#Use a system that will keep the updating fast and safe<br />
#Allow the customization of everything inside the cd<br />
<br />
==Desktop 2007.0==<br />
Our first releease contains those software:<br />
<br />
* QGIS 0.8<br />
* GRASS 6.2.1<br />
* PostgreSQL 8.1.5<br />
* PostGIS 1.1.4<br />
* GDAL 1.3.2 <br />
<br />
All the system run on a kernel 2.6.18 and use Gnome as Desktop Manager.<br />
<br />
While writing this abstract, we are waiting for Qgis 0.8.1 for releasing a new version.<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13327Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-28T23:03:20Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Ominiverdi Livecd */</p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, as soon as the machine it's shuted down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#Using old machine: livecd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD.<br />
#Showing project: it's a very cool way of spread your work aroun. You deliver your work ( for example data ) and all application needed to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
When building a livecd, it contains both the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that are used for all the machine, so can happen that, during the boot the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missine lan detection for example). During the years, have been created very good tool that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.<br />
So you must see a failing boot, as a crash..that will be fixed soon.<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveiroment. This is good from a side ( for example for keeping safe your data) but can be thedius for another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your output.This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
For those approaching the world of<br />
<br />
=Ominiverdi Livecd=<br />
<br />
==Objective==<br />
<br />
Our livecd will try to offer to user always this thing:<br />
<br />
#Keep all software up to date with every single official release<br />
#Include Guide, Documents and Tutorial<br />
#Grant a good hardware compatibilty<br />
<br />
==Tecnical development==<br />
<br />
We decided to use the same tool that Gentoo Release Engineering use: Catalyst. <br />
<br />
This choice as been made for 2 main reason: <br />
<br />
#Use a system that will keep the updating fast and safe<br />
#Allow the customization of everything inside the cd<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13326Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-28T23:03:03Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Tecnical development */</p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, as soon as the machine it's shuted down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#Using old machine: livecd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD.<br />
#Showing project: it's a very cool way of spread your work aroun. You deliver your work ( for example data ) and all application needed to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
When building a livecd, it contains both the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that are used for all the machine, so can happen that, during the boot the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missine lan detection for example). During the years, have been created very good tool that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.<br />
So you must see a failing boot, as a crash..that will be fixed soon.<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveiroment. This is good from a side ( for example for keeping safe your data) but can be thedius for another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your output.This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
For those approaching the world of<br />
<br />
=Ominiverdi Livecd=<br />
<br />
<br />
==Objective==<br />
<br />
Our livecd will try to offer to user always this thing:<br />
<br />
#Keep all software up to date with every single official release<br />
#Include Guide, Documents and Tutorial<br />
#Grant a good hardware compatibilty<br />
<br />
==Tecnical development==<br />
<br />
We decided to use the same tool that Gentoo Release Engineering use: Catalyst. <br />
<br />
This choice as been made for 2 main reason: <br />
<br />
#Use a system that will keep the updating fast and safe<br />
#Allow the customization of everything inside the cd<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13325Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-28T23:01:11Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Livecd and open source geospatial software */</p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, as soon as the machine it's shuted down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#Using old machine: livecd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD.<br />
#Showing project: it's a very cool way of spread your work aroun. You deliver your work ( for example data ) and all application needed to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
When building a livecd, it contains both the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that are used for all the machine, so can happen that, during the boot the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missine lan detection for example). During the years, have been created very good tool that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.<br />
So you must see a failing boot, as a crash..that will be fixed soon.<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveiroment. This is good from a side ( for example for keeping safe your data) but can be thedius for another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your output.This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
For those approaching the world of<br />
<br />
=Ominiverdi Livecd=<br />
<br />
<br />
==Objective==<br />
<br />
Our livecd will try to offer to user always this thing:<br />
<br />
#Keep all software up to date with every single official release<br />
#Include Guide, Documents and Tutorial<br />
#Grant a good hardware compatibilty<br />
<br />
==Tecnical development==<br />
<br />
We decided to use the same tool that Gentoo Release Engineering use: Catalyst. <br />
The building of a livecd using this tool, it's split in 2 phasis:<br />
<br />
# '''Livecd-stage1''':During this phase all selected packages are built inside a chroot env. Packages that need kernel source, are skipped.<br />
# '''Livecd-stage2''':In this phase are built the kernel and all packages that need its source.After this a bash script '''fsscript.sh''' it's runned in the chroot env and then the '''root-overlay''' it's copied in.<br />
<br />
In each phasis configuration settings are read from text file (called spec file). Let's go more in deep:<br />
<br />
'''Spec file'''<br />
<br />
subarch: i686<br />
version_stamp:sample<br />
target: livecd-stage1<br />
rel_type: default<br />
profile: default-linux/x86/2006.1<br />
snapshot: 20061227<br />
<br />
livecd/use:<br />
<br />
# Generic<br />
grass<br />
geos<br />
proj<br />
gdal<br />
png<br />
jpeg<br />
szip<br />
<br />
livecd/packages:<br />
x11-libs/libXft<br />
x11-libs/pango<br />
app-admin/ide-smart<br />
[..]<br />
<br />
Spec file contain<br />
<br />
Catalyst it's a tool that read a text file (spec file in gergo) that contains all the info about the cd that will be built.<br />
<br />
This is an excerpt of a spec file:<br />
<br />
For building the livecd, we decided to use Catalyst, the tool used by [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo] Release Team. this choices come from 2 points:<br />
# Catalyst allow full customization<br />
# Upgrading the softwares <br />
This tool allows the creation of "highly customized liveCd" about architecture and softwares.<br />
Catalyst uses a text file that contains information about how creating the liveCd:<br />
*Architecture to use<br />
*Software to add<br />
Each application can be built with a custom configuration, adding or removing item from the default configuration:<br />
<br />
[..]<br />
sci-libs/gdal -png gif<br />
[..]<br />
<br />
This mean that gdal will be built using default configuration with gif support, but not with<br />
png support.<br />
<br />
<br />
Once the application list is read the softwares are installed using the configuration information described inside a file called packages.use<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13324Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-28T22:59:37Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Technical Description */</p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, as soon as the machine it's shuted down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#Using old machine: livecd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD.<br />
#Showing project: it's a very cool way of spread your work aroun. You deliver your work ( for example data ) and all application needed to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
When building a livecd, it contains both the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that are used for all the machine, so can happen that, during the boot the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missine lan detection for example). During the years, have been created very good tool that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.<br />
So you must see a failing boot, as a crash..that will be fixed soon.<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveiroment. This is good from a side ( for example for keeping safe your data) but can be thedius for another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your output.This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
==Choice==<br />
<br />
While planning the first relase, we decided those points <br />
<br />
# <br />
<br />
<br />
=Ominiverdi Livecd=<br />
<br />
<br />
==Objective==<br />
<br />
Our livecd will try to offer to user always this thing:<br />
<br />
#Keep all software up to date with every single official release<br />
#Include Guide, Documents and Tutorial<br />
#Grant a good hardware compatibilty<br />
<br />
==Tecnical development==<br />
<br />
We decided to use the same tool that Gentoo Release Engineering use: Catalyst. <br />
The building of a livecd using this tool, it's split in 2 phasis:<br />
<br />
# '''Livecd-stage1''':During this phase all selected packages are built inside a chroot env. Packages that need kernel source, are skipped.<br />
# '''Livecd-stage2''':In this phase are built the kernel and all packages that need its source.After this a bash script '''fsscript.sh''' it's runned in the chroot env and then the '''root-overlay''' it's copied in.<br />
<br />
In each phasis configuration settings are read from text file (called spec file). Let's go more in deep:<br />
<br />
'''Spec file'''<br />
<br />
subarch: i686<br />
version_stamp:sample<br />
target: livecd-stage1<br />
rel_type: default<br />
profile: default-linux/x86/2006.1<br />
snapshot: 20061227<br />
<br />
livecd/use:<br />
<br />
# Generic<br />
grass<br />
geos<br />
proj<br />
gdal<br />
png<br />
jpeg<br />
szip<br />
<br />
livecd/packages:<br />
x11-libs/libXft<br />
x11-libs/pango<br />
app-admin/ide-smart<br />
[..]<br />
<br />
Spec file contain<br />
<br />
Catalyst it's a tool that read a text file (spec file in gergo) that contains all the info about the cd that will be built.<br />
<br />
This is an excerpt of a spec file:<br />
<br />
For building the livecd, we decided to use Catalyst, the tool used by [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo] Release Team. this choices come from 2 points:<br />
# Catalyst allow full customization<br />
# Upgrading the softwares <br />
This tool allows the creation of "highly customized liveCd" about architecture and softwares.<br />
Catalyst uses a text file that contains information about how creating the liveCd:<br />
*Architecture to use<br />
*Software to add<br />
Each application can be built with a custom configuration, adding or removing item from the default configuration:<br />
<br />
[..]<br />
sci-libs/gdal -png gif<br />
[..]<br />
<br />
This mean that gdal will be built using default configuration with gif support, but not with<br />
png support.<br />
<br />
<br />
Once the application list is read the softwares are installed using the configuration information described inside a file called packages.use<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13323Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-28T22:42:39Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Livecd and open source geospatial software */</p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, as soon as the machine it's shuted down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#Using old machine: livecd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD.<br />
#Showing project: it's a very cool way of spread your work aroun. You deliver your work ( for example data ) and all application needed to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
When building a livecd, it contains both the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that are used for all the machine, so can happen that, during the boot the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missine lan detection for example). During the years, have been created very good tool that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.<br />
So you must see a failing boot, as a crash..that will be fixed soon.<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveiroment. This is good from a side ( for example for keeping safe your data) but can be thedius for another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your output.This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
==Choice==<br />
<br />
While planning the first relase, we decided those points <br />
<br />
# <br />
<br />
<br />
==Technical Description==<br />
<br />
For building the livecd, we decided to use Catalyst, the tool used by [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo] Release Team. this choices come from 2 points:<br />
# Catalyst allow full customization<br />
# Upgrading the softwares <br />
This tool allows the creation of "highly customized liveCd" about architecture and softwares.<br />
Catalyst uses a text file that contains information about how creating the liveCd:<br />
*Architecture to use<br />
*Software to add<br />
Each application can be built with a custom configuration, adding or removing item from the default configuration:<br />
<br />
[..]<br />
sci-libs/gdal -png gif<br />
[..]<br />
<br />
This mean that gdal will be built using default configuration with gif support, but not with<br />
png support.<br />
<br />
<br />
Once the application list is read the softwares are installed using the configuration information described inside a file called packages.use<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13321Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-28T22:19:52Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Limitation of a Livecd */</p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, as soon as the machine it's shuted down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#Using old machine: livecd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD.<br />
#Showing project: it's a very cool way of spread your work aroun. You deliver your work ( for example data ) and all application needed to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
When building a livecd, it contains both the kernel, the drivers, the WM and all the applications. Of course is pretty impossible to put all the driver that are used for all the machine, so can happen that, during the boot the cd stops or something else goes wrong (missine lan detection for example). During the years, have been created very good tool that detect the hardware during the boot, but, like every software application, there can be still bug.<br />
So you must see a failing boot, as a crash..that will be fixed soon.<br />
<br />
The other thing that should be clear, it's that no information it's saved while working in the livecd enveiroment. This is good from a side ( for example for keeping safe your data) but can be thedius for another way. The solution for this is use a Storage Device (like an USB HD for example) to store all your output.This approach could also be used to save configuration file, so that you can have the same setting at every boot.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The<br />
==Choice==<br />
<br />
==Technical Description==<br />
<br />
For building the livecd, we decided to use Catalyst, the tool used by [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo] Release Team. this choices come from 2 points:<br />
# Catalyst allow full customization<br />
# Upgrading the softwares <br />
This tool allows the creation of "highly customized liveCd" about architecture and softwares.<br />
Catalyst uses a text file that contains information about how creating the liveCd:<br />
*Architecture to use<br />
*Software to add<br />
Each application can be built with a custom configuration, adding or removing item from the default configuration:<br />
<br />
[..]<br />
sci-libs/gdal -png gif<br />
[..]<br />
<br />
This mean that gdal will be built using default configuration with gif support, but not with<br />
png support.<br />
<br />
<br />
Once the application list is read the softwares are installed using the configuration information described inside a file called packages.use<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=13320Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-28T22:11:29Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup or installation. Once the liveCd has been booted, everything it's loaded in the RAM keeping safe the hard disk. Of course, as soon as the machine it's shuted down, every change it's lost.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#Using old machine: livecd can be run on smooth machine and also without HD.<br />
#Showing project: it's a very cool way of spread your work aroun. You deliver your work ( for example data ) and all application needed to appreciate it !<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
<s>I always talked about "machine" as the way for botting the livecd. Nothing has been said about the configuration.</s> Once the cd has been booted, it loads tool that detect the hardware and configure everything to run smoothly. This is easier to say (or write ) then to be done. There are a lot of different kind of hardwares and sometimes the configuration process can go wrong. This can sound as a big problem, but people should remember that every hardware come with its driver packages. In a liveCd, all come inside a cd: Os,Driver and Application </s>:) (are you sure you want to use emoticons on the Newletter?)</s><br />
The other thing that should be remembered is that every works that has been done inside a liveCd is lost as soon as the machine has been shut down. To avoid this you can use a usb storage device to save all your works.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The<br />
==Choice==<br />
<br />
==Technical Description==<br />
<br />
For building the livecd, we decided to use Catalyst, the tool used by [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo] Release Team. this choices come from 2 points:<br />
# Catalyst allow full customization<br />
# Upgrading the softwares <br />
This tool allows the creation of "highly customized liveCd" about architecture and softwares.<br />
Catalyst uses a text file that contains information about how creating the liveCd:<br />
*Architecture to use<br />
*Software to add<br />
Each application can be built with a custom configuration, adding or removing item from the default configuration:<br />
<br />
[..]<br />
sci-libs/gdal -png gif<br />
[..]<br />
<br />
This mean that gdal will be built using default configuration with gif support, but not with<br />
png support.<br />
<br />
<br />
Once the application list is read the softwares are installed using the configuration information described inside a file called packages.use<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
Our goal is to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update or included softwares will come out.<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
===LiveCD installer===<br />
The installer will be accessible trough an icon on the desktop. The installation process will guide the user to the set up of the linux distribution in his computer. <br />
Installing on the hard disk will allow better performances and the possibility to update all packages thanks to Gentoo systems.<br />
<br />
===Server Edition===<br />
The server edition will target a server machine with minimum graphical support but full featured set of application to offer OCG Web Services and UMN Mapserver front ends (ka-Map, Open Layers, p.Mapper, ecc.).<br />
<br />
===More Infos===<br />
*[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
*[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=12904Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-19T21:46:52Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As Wikipedia report, liveCd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full Linux box without fighting with any setup. Once the machine with the liveCd inside it has been booted, the OS is loaded in the RAM and nothing is written on the hard disk. Of course, just because all operation are made using ram inside of hard disk, all information are lost once the machine has been shut down.<br />
<br />
==Tasks==<br />
There are many application that can be satisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favorite application everywhere you can find a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
<s>I always talked about "machine" as the way for botting the livecd. Nothing has been said about the configuration.</s> Once the cd has been booted, it loads tool that detect the hardware and configure everything to run smoothly. This is easier to say (or write ) then to be done. There are a lot of different kind of hardwares and sometimes the configuration process can go wrong. This can sound as a big problem, but people should remember that every hardware come with its driver packages. In a liveCd, all come inside a cd: Os,Driver and Application </s>:) (are you sure you want to use emoticons on the Newletter?)</s><br />
The other thing that should be remembered is that every works that has been done inside a liveCd is lost as soon as the machine has been shut down. To avoid this you can use a usb storage device to save all your works.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The<br />
==Choice==<br />
<br />
==Technical Description==<br />
<br />
For building the livecd, we decided to use Catalyst, the tool used by [http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo] Release Team. this choices come from 2 points:<br />
# Catalyst allow full customization<br />
# Upgrading the softwares <br />
This tool allows the creation of "highly customized liveCd" about architecture and softwares.<br />
Catalyst uses a text file that contains information about how creating the liveCd:<br />
*Architecture to use<br />
*Software to add<br />
Each application can be built with a custom configuration, adding or removing item from the default configuration:<br />
<br />
[..]<br />
sci-libs/gdal -png gif<br />
[..]<br />
<br />
This mean that gdal will be built using default configuration with gif support, but not with<br />
png support.<br />
<br />
<br />
Once the application list is read the softwares are installed using the configuration information described inside a file called packages.use<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=<br />
<br />
Right now we are working on two tasks:<br />
<br />
# An Installer for the livecd<br />
# A server edition with mapserver and some webgis application<br />
<br />
Of course we try to keep the cd updated, creating new version at regular times, or at least as soon as major update will come out.<br />
<br />
More info:<br />
[http://livecd.ominiverdi.org Ominiverdi Livecd Project]<br />
[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/ Gentoo Catalyst Project]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=12851Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-18T18:46:52Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As wikipedia report, livecd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full linux box without fighting with any setup. Once the machine with the livecd inside it, has been booted, the os is been loaded in the RAM and nothing is writen on the hard disk. Of course, just because all operation are made using ram inside of hard disk, all information are lost once the machine it's been shut down.<br />
<br />
==Task==<br />
There are many aplication that can be stisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favourite application anyone you can found a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
I always talked about "machine" as the way for botting the livecd. Nothing has been said about the configuration. Once the cd has been bootted, it loads tool that detect the used hardware and configure everything to run smooth. This is easier to say (or write ) then to be done. There are a lot of differents kind of hardware and sometimes the configuration process can go wrong. This can sound as a big problem, but people should remember that every hardware come with its driver packages. In a livecd, all come inside a cd..Os,Driver and Application :)<br />
The other thing that should be remembered is that every works that is been done inside a livecd, is lost as soon as the machine its shout down.To avoid this you could use a usb sotrage device to save all your works.<br />
<br />
=Livecd and open source geospatial software=<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The<br />
==Choice==<br />
<br />
==Descrizione tecnica==<br />
<br />
For building the livecd, we decided to use Catalyst, tool used by Gentoo release team. <br />
this tool allow the creation of "high customization livecd" both about architecture and about softwares.<br />
Catalyst uses a text file that contains infomration about how creating the livecd:<br />
-Architecture to use<br />
-Softare to add<br />
Each application can be built with a custom configuration, adding or removing item from default configuration infomration:<br />
<br />
[..]<br />
sci-libs/gdal -png gif<br />
[..]<br />
<br />
This mean that gdal will be built using default configuration without and gif support, but not with<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Once the application list is read the softwares are installed using the configuration information described inside a file called packages.use<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=12848Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-18T18:13:37Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=Introducition=<br />
==What is a Livecd==<br />
As wikipedia report, livecd is a "is a generic term for an operating system distribution that is executed upon boot, without installation on a hard drive. Typically, it is stored on bootable media such as a CD-ROM (Live CD), DVD (Live DVD), USB flash drive (Live USB), among others". using this kind of application user can get a "taste" of a full linux box without fighting with any setup. Once the machine with the livecd inside it, has been booted, the os is been loaded in the RAM and nothing is writen on the hard disk. Of course, just because all operation are made using ram inside of hard disk, all information are lost once the machine it's been shut down.<br />
<br />
==Task==<br />
There are many aplication that can be stisfied by a livecd:<br />
<br />
#Using your favourite application anyone you can found a pc<br />
#Teaching purpose: people can have machine with the needed software in a boot time<br />
#<br />
<br />
==Limitation of a Livecd==<br />
<br />
I always talked about "machine" as the way for botting the livecd. Nothing has been said about the configuration. Once the cd has been bootted, it loads tool that detect the used hardware and configure everything to run smooth. This is easier to say (or write ) then to be done. There are a lot of differents kind of hardware and sometimes the configuration process can go wrong. This can sound as a big problem, but people should remember that every hardware come with its driver packages. In a livecd, all come inside a cd..Os,Driver and Application :)<br />
The other thing that should be remembered is that every works that is been done inside a livecd, is lost as soon as the machine its shout down.To avoid this you could use a usb sotrage device to save all your works.<br />
<br />
=Ominiverdi Livecd 2006=<br />
<br />
<br />
==Choice==<br />
==Descrizione tecnica==<br />
<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=12847Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-18T17:51:46Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org<br />
<br />
=The Use of Livecd=<br />
<br />
=The Making Of..=<br />
<br />
=Future Development and task=</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Newsletter_Volume_1_Livecd&diff=12846Newsletter Volume 1 Livecd2007-03-18T17:44:54Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: </p>
<hr />
<div>;Luca Casagrande<br />
:luca.casagrande@gmail.com<br />
:http://ominiverdi.org</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Italiano&diff=10873Italiano2007-01-23T19:45:32Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Data */</p>
<hr />
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<br />
== Comunità GFOSS italiana ==<br />
E' attualmente in corso un tentativo di proporre agli utenti di lingua italiana la creazione di un Local Chapter di Osgeo.<br />
La discussione è sulla mailing list di GFOSS.it :<br />
* La mailing list: http://www.faunalia.com/listinfo/gfoss/<br />
<br />
Si invitano le persone interessate ad aggiungersi alla lista alla voce [[#Gli interessati]].<br />
<br />
== Links==<br />
''(siti in italiano)''<br />
<br />
* Il portale: http://www.gfoss.it<br />
* Il Wiki: http://wiki.gfoss.it<br />
* La mailing list: http://www.faunalia.com/pipermail/gfoss/<br />
* Il canale IRC: #gfoss su irc.freenode.net irc://irc.freenode.net/#gfoss<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/PagineJabber Qui] gli indirizzi Jabber della comunità GFOSS italiana.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/Proposta_Statuto_Associazione Proposta Statuto Associazione]<br />
<br />
==Gli interessati==<br />
* Paolo Cavallini <br />
* Lorenzo Becchi<br />
* Stefano Costa<br />
* Maria Antonia Brovelli<br />
* Francesco P. Lovergine<br />
* Ivan Marchesini<br />
* Giovanni Allegri<br />
* Domenico Aliotta<br />
* Andrea Scianna<br />
* Luca Casagrande<br />
* Luca Delucchi<br />
* Maurizio Napolitano<br />
* Massimiliano Cannata<br />
* Lorenzo Perone<br />
* Andrea Giacomelli<br />
* Giuseppe Naponiello<br />
* Markus Neteler<br />
* Cesare Furlanello<br />
<br />
==Italian chapter mission==<br />
Italian Local Chapter mission will be to respect [[#Guidelines|Osgeo Guidelines]] on local chapters and continue supporting all [[#Italian_community_contributions| Italian Community contributions]] to FOSS GIS community. Main goal is the OSGEO foundation one: to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Guidelines ==<br />
=== Chapter Roles ===<br />
<br />
* Provide member networking opportunities for support and job opportunities - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Software Internationalization and Localization - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Development of prototype applications to demonstrate Open Source geospatial capabilities to local and regional audiences - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Software Packaging and Customization for local and regional needs - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span> ( GFOSS live CD)<br />
* Training, Support and Development of e-Learning Contents in local languages - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Support Open standards and Open access to geospatial data in region <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Promoting OSGeo and enhancing visibility in various forums<br />
<br />
=== Chapter Responsibilities ===<br />
<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” officially represents OSGeo and is formally recognized as OSGeo Project.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” must support the OSGeo Mission and Objectives of OSGeo.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” must hold regular meetings (at least annual) and provide annual report of activities to chapter membership and OSGeo Board. <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” will not entail any financial commitment from or on-behalf of OSGeo. OSGeo will also not provide any budget assistance to the “OSGeo Chapter”.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” is encouraged develop and maintain “Directory Listing” of companies, people, universities and organizations involved with or using OSGeo projects.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” must strive at networking with organizations to enlist participation and support for OSGeo.<br />
* OSGeo reserves the right to terminate its relation with an “OSGeo Chapter” if OSGeo has reasons to believe that the activities of the “OSGeo Chapter” are contrary or detrimental to the Mission and Objectives of OSGeo.<br />
<br />
===Chapter Formation ===<br />
<br />
In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:<br />
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. - <span style="color:#090;">'''READY'''</span><br />
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). - <span style="color:#090;">'''READY''' (lang:it)</span><br />
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. - <span style="color:#f00;">'''TODO'''</span><span style="color:#a00;"> -> Planned for January-February 2007.</span><br />
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information. - <span style="color:#f00;">'''TODO'''</span><span style="color:#a00;"> -> Planned for January-February 2007.</span><br />
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer. - <span style="color:#f00;">'''TODO'''</span><br />
<br />
In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:<br />
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation? - <span style="color:#090;">'''NO'''</span><br />
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? - <span style="color:#090;">'''YES'''</span><br />
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country) - <span style="color:#090;">'''YES'''</span><br />
<br />
==Italian community contributions==<br />
This part shows what the italian community is already contributing on internet.<br />
===Community===<br />
* [http://www.gfoss.it GFOSS site] - the site of the first italian Geospatial Free and Open Source Software community.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it GFOSS wiki] - the wiki page of GFOSS.it , contains many howto in italian and other resources.<br />
* [http://www.faunalia.com/pipermail/gfoss/ GFOSS mailing list] - the first meeting point of the community.<br />
<br />
===Data===<br />
*[http://paros.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/tecnica/gps_cartografia_gis/download#outline_regioni_d_italia_e_grecia Italian and greek VMAP0 elaboration] - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci<br />
*[http://www.dirap.unipa.it/~scianna/gis_software.htm Fedora and Debian GRASS Packages] - contribution by Andrea Scianna<br />
*[http://paros.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/tecnica/gps_cartografia_gis/strade Italian Open Street project] - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci<br />
*[http://debian-gfoss.rigacci.org/ a Debian Free GIS repository] - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci<br />
*[http://gentoo-gis.sourceforge.net/ Gentoo Gis Overlay] - Emiliano Valvassori e Luca Casagrande<br />
<br />
===Contents===<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/Guida_Utente_QGIS_in_italiano Qgis 0.7 User Manual] - The italian translation. Complete.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/GRASS_6.0.2_Reference_Manual GRASS 6.2 Reference Manual] - The italian translation. Still a lot to be done.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/GFOSS_presentazioni GFOSS presentations] - A repository of links to presentations on Gis FOSS.<br />
*[http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/corsi/ many useful university courses slides] - From [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it Geomatica, Politecnico di Milano].<br />
*[http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/workbooks Geomatic Workbooks] - From [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it Geomatica, Politecnico di Milano] (free registration).<br />
*[http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS GIS main site] - from [http://www.itc.it L'Istituto Trentino di Cultura]<br />
<br />
===Events===<br />
*[http://gislab.dirap.unipa.it/grass_meeting/index.htm VIII GRASS and GFOSS annual Meeting] - February 14-15-16 2007, Palermo Univesity.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Local Chapters]]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Italiano&diff=10872Italiano2007-01-23T19:45:14Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Data */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Local_Chapters|<< Back to the Local Chapters page]]<br />
<br />
== Comunità GFOSS italiana ==<br />
E' attualmente in corso un tentativo di proporre agli utenti di lingua italiana la creazione di un Local Chapter di Osgeo.<br />
La discussione è sulla mailing list di GFOSS.it :<br />
* La mailing list: http://www.faunalia.com/listinfo/gfoss/<br />
<br />
Si invitano le persone interessate ad aggiungersi alla lista alla voce [[#Gli interessati]].<br />
<br />
== Links==<br />
''(siti in italiano)''<br />
<br />
* Il portale: http://www.gfoss.it<br />
* Il Wiki: http://wiki.gfoss.it<br />
* La mailing list: http://www.faunalia.com/pipermail/gfoss/<br />
* Il canale IRC: #gfoss su irc.freenode.net irc://irc.freenode.net/#gfoss<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/PagineJabber Qui] gli indirizzi Jabber della comunità GFOSS italiana.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/Proposta_Statuto_Associazione Proposta Statuto Associazione]<br />
<br />
==Gli interessati==<br />
* Paolo Cavallini <br />
* Lorenzo Becchi<br />
* Stefano Costa<br />
* Maria Antonia Brovelli<br />
* Francesco P. Lovergine<br />
* Ivan Marchesini<br />
* Giovanni Allegri<br />
* Domenico Aliotta<br />
* Andrea Scianna<br />
* Luca Casagrande<br />
* Luca Delucchi<br />
* Maurizio Napolitano<br />
* Massimiliano Cannata<br />
* Lorenzo Perone<br />
* Andrea Giacomelli<br />
* Giuseppe Naponiello<br />
* Markus Neteler<br />
* Cesare Furlanello<br />
<br />
==Italian chapter mission==<br />
Italian Local Chapter mission will be to respect [[#Guidelines|Osgeo Guidelines]] on local chapters and continue supporting all [[#Italian_community_contributions| Italian Community contributions]] to FOSS GIS community. Main goal is the OSGEO foundation one: to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led projects.<br />
<br />
<br />
== Guidelines ==<br />
=== Chapter Roles ===<br />
<br />
* Provide member networking opportunities for support and job opportunities - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Software Internationalization and Localization - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Development of prototype applications to demonstrate Open Source geospatial capabilities to local and regional audiences - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Software Packaging and Customization for local and regional needs - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span> ( GFOSS live CD)<br />
* Training, Support and Development of e-Learning Contents in local languages - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Support Open standards and Open access to geospatial data in region <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Promoting OSGeo and enhancing visibility in various forums<br />
<br />
=== Chapter Responsibilities ===<br />
<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” officially represents OSGeo and is formally recognized as OSGeo Project.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” must support the OSGeo Mission and Objectives of OSGeo.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” must hold regular meetings (at least annual) and provide annual report of activities to chapter membership and OSGeo Board. <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” will not entail any financial commitment from or on-behalf of OSGeo. OSGeo will also not provide any budget assistance to the “OSGeo Chapter”.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” is encouraged develop and maintain “Directory Listing” of companies, people, universities and organizations involved with or using OSGeo projects.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” must strive at networking with organizations to enlist participation and support for OSGeo.<br />
* OSGeo reserves the right to terminate its relation with an “OSGeo Chapter” if OSGeo has reasons to believe that the activities of the “OSGeo Chapter” are contrary or detrimental to the Mission and Objectives of OSGeo.<br />
<br />
===Chapter Formation ===<br />
<br />
In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:<br />
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. - <span style="color:#090;">'''READY'''</span><br />
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). - <span style="color:#090;">'''READY''' (lang:it)</span><br />
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. - <span style="color:#f00;">'''TODO'''</span><span style="color:#a00;"> -> Planned for January-February 2007.</span><br />
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information. - <span style="color:#f00;">'''TODO'''</span><span style="color:#a00;"> -> Planned for January-February 2007.</span><br />
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer. - <span style="color:#f00;">'''TODO'''</span><br />
<br />
In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:<br />
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation? - <span style="color:#090;">'''NO'''</span><br />
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? - <span style="color:#090;">'''YES'''</span><br />
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country) - <span style="color:#090;">'''YES'''</span><br />
<br />
==Italian community contributions==<br />
This part shows what the italian community is already contributing on internet.<br />
===Community===<br />
* [http://www.gfoss.it GFOSS site] - the site of the first italian Geospatial Free and Open Source Software community.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it GFOSS wiki] - the wiki page of GFOSS.it , contains many howto in italian and other resources.<br />
* [http://www.faunalia.com/pipermail/gfoss/ GFOSS mailing list] - the first meeting point of the community.<br />
<br />
===Data===<br />
*[http://paros.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/tecnica/gps_cartografia_gis/download#outline_regioni_d_italia_e_grecia Italian and greek VMAP0 elaboration] - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci<br />
*[http://www.dirap.unipa.it/~scianna/gis_software.htm Fedora and Debian GRASS Packages] - contribution by Andrea Scianna<br />
*[http://paros.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/tecnica/gps_cartografia_gis/strade Italian Open Street project] - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci<br />
*[http://debian-gfoss.rigacci.org/ a Debian Free GIS repository] - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci<br />
*[http://gentoo-gis.sourceforge.net/ Gentoo Gis Overlay - Emiliano Valvassori e Luca Casagrande<br />
<br />
===Contents===<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/Guida_Utente_QGIS_in_italiano Qgis 0.7 User Manual] - The italian translation. Complete.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/GRASS_6.0.2_Reference_Manual GRASS 6.2 Reference Manual] - The italian translation. Still a lot to be done.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/GFOSS_presentazioni GFOSS presentations] - A repository of links to presentations on Gis FOSS.<br />
*[http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/corsi/ many useful university courses slides] - From [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it Geomatica, Politecnico di Milano].<br />
*[http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/workbooks Geomatic Workbooks] - From [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it Geomatica, Politecnico di Milano] (free registration).<br />
*[http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS GIS main site] - from [http://www.itc.it L'Istituto Trentino di Cultura]<br />
<br />
===Events===<br />
*[http://gislab.dirap.unipa.it/grass_meeting/index.htm VIII GRASS and GFOSS annual Meeting] - February 14-15-16 2007, Palermo Univesity.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Local Chapters]]</div>Wiki-Doktoreashttps://wiki.osgeo.org/w/index.php?title=Italiano&diff=10307Italiano2006-12-24T14:58:39Z<p>Wiki-Doktoreas: /* Gli interessati */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Local_Chapters|<< Back to the Local Chapters page]]<br />
<br />
== Comunità GFOSS italiana ==<br />
E' attualmente in corso un tentativo di proporre agli utenti di lingua italiana la creazione di un Local Chapter di Osgeo.<br />
La discussione è sulla mailing list di GFOSS.it :<br />
* La mailing list: http://www.faunalia.com/listinfo/gfoss/<br />
<br />
Si invitano le persone interessate ad aggiungersi alla lista alla voce [[#Gli interessati]].<br />
<br />
== Links==<br />
''(siti in italiano)''<br />
<br />
* Il portale: http://www.gfoss.it<br />
* Il Wiki: http://wiki.gfoss.it<br />
* La mailing list: http://www.faunalia.com/pipermail/gfoss/<br />
* Il canale IRC: #gfoss su irc.freenode.net irc://irc.freenode.net/#gfoss<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/PagineJabber Qui] gli indirizzi Jabber della comunità GFOSS italiana.<br />
<br />
==Gli interessati==<br />
* Paolo Cavallini <br />
* Lorenzo Becchi<br />
* Stefano Costa<br />
* Maria Antonia Brovelli<br />
* Francesco P. Lovergine<br />
* Ivan Marchesini<br />
* Giovanni Allegri<br />
* Domenico Aliotta<br />
* Andrea Scianna<br />
* Luca Casagrande<br />
<br />
== Guidelines ==<br />
=== Chapter Roles ===<br />
<br />
* Provide member networking opportunities for support and job opportunities - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Software Internationalization and Localization - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Development of prototype applications to demonstrate Open Source geospatial capabilities to local and regional audiences - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Software Packaging and Customization for local and regional needs - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span> ( GFOSS live CD)<br />
* Training, Support and Development of e-Learning Contents in local languages - <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Support Open standards and Open access to geospatial data in region <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* Promoting OSGeo and enhancing visibility in various forums<br />
<br />
=== Chapter Responsibilities ===<br />
<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” officially represents OSGeo and is formally recognized as OSGeo Project.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” must support the OSGeo Mission and Objectives of OSGeo.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” must hold regular meetings (at least annual) and provide annual report of activities to chapter membership and OSGeo Board. <span style="color:#090;">'''OK'''</span><br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” will not entail any financial commitment from or on-behalf of OSGeo. OSGeo will also not provide any budget assistance to the “OSGeo Chapter”.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” is encouraged develop and maintain “Directory Listing” of companies, people, universities and organizations involved with or using OSGeo projects.<br />
* “OSGeo Chapter” must strive at networking with organizations to enlist participation and support for OSGeo.<br />
* OSGeo reserves the right to terminate its relation with an “OSGeo Chapter” if OSGeo has reasons to believe that the activities of the “OSGeo Chapter” are contrary or detrimental to the Mission and Objectives of OSGeo.<br />
<br />
===Chapter Formation ===<br />
<br />
In order to form a chapter, the following steps should be taken:<br />
# "OSGeo Chapter" should self-organize (for instance in the OSGeo wiki, via OSGeo mailing list, etc), seeking to determine if a critical mass of interest exists to justify a chapter. - <span style="color:#090;">'''READY'''</span><br />
# "OSGeo Chapter" should prepare a mission and objectives indicating the scope of the planned chapter (geographic or linquistic extent for instance). - <span style="color:#090;">'''READY''' (lang:it)</span><br />
# “OSGeo Chapter” should propose an official representative to liaise with the OSGeo Board. If accepted by the board, the representative will be an officer of OSGeo. - <span style="color:#f00;">'''TODO'''</span><span style="color:#a00;"> -> Planned for January-February 2007.</span><br />
# “OSGeo Chapter” should submit an official expression of interest to form a chapter to the OSGeo board, listing initial members, mission, representative and other supporting information. - <span style="color:#f00;">'''TODO'''</span><span style="color:#a00;"> -> Planned for January-February 2007.</span><br />
# The OSGeo board shall then consider passing a motion forming the chapter, and designating the liason officer. - <span style="color:#f00;">'''TODO'''</span><br />
<br />
In considering the formation of new OSGeo chapters, the board will consider issues including:<br />
* Does the mandate (geographically or linguistically) conflict with other existing chapters or chapters-in-formation? - <span style="color:#090;">'''NO'''</span><br />
* Does the chapter appear to have sufficient interest to justify official formation? - <span style="color:#090;">'''YES'''</span><br />
* Does the chapter appear to be open to broad membership, and representative of the target geographic or linguistic community? (eg. if a chapter had the objective to cover all Spanish speakers, it would be inappropriate if the only interest demonstrated was from one country) - <span style="color:#090;">'''YES'''</span><br />
<br />
==Italian community contributions==<br />
This part shows what the italian community is already contributing on internet.<br />
===Community===<br />
* [http://www.gfoss.it GFOSS site] - the site of the first italian Geospatial Free and Open Source Software community.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it GFOSS wiki] - the wiki page of GFOSS.it , contains many howto in italian and other resources.<br />
* [http://www.faunalia.com/pipermail/gfoss/ GFOSS mailing list] - the first meeting point of the community.<br />
<br />
===Data===<br />
*[http://paros.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/tecnica/gps_cartografia_gis/download#outline_regioni_d_italia_e_grecia Italian and greek VMAP0 elaboration] - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci<br />
*[http://www.dirap.unipa.it/~scianna/gis_software.htm Fedora and Debian GRASS Packages] - contribution by Andrea Scianna<br />
*[http://paros.rigacci.org/wiki/doku.php/tecnica/gps_cartografia_gis/strade Italian Open Street project] - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci<br />
*[http://debian-gfoss.rigacci.org/ a Debian GIS repository] - contribution by Niccolò Rigacci<br />
<br />
===Contents===<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/Guida_Utente_QGIS_in_italiano Qgis 0.7 User Manual] - The italian translation. Complete.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/GRASS_6.0.2_Reference_Manual GRASS 6.2 Reference Manual] - The italian translation. Still a lot to be done.<br />
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/GFOSS_presentazioni GFOSS presentations] - A repository of links to presentations on Gis FOSS.<br />
*[http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/corsi/ many useful university courses slides] - From [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it Geomatica, Politecnico di Milano].<br />
*[http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/workbooks Geomatic Workbooks] - From [http://geomatica.como.polimi.it Geomatica, Politecnico di Milano] (free registration).<br />
*[http://grass.itc.it/ GRASS GIS main site] - from [http://www.itc.it L'Istituto Trentino di Cultura]<br />
<br />
===Events===<br />
*[http://gislab.dirap.unipa.it/grass_meeting/index.htm VIII GRASS and GFOSS annual Meeting] - February 14-15-16 2007, Palermo Univesity.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Local Chapters]]</div>Wiki-Doktoreas