Live GIS Disc Press Release 44

14 December 2013

Announcing the start of the build cycle for the next release of the OSGeo Live DVD/USB/VM project - specially named OSGeo-Live 7.9 - to be released in March 2014, ready for several special events, including the OSGeo Code Sprint in Vienna, Spanish FOSS4G, FOSSGIS Germany, among others. We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects to OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or add extra translations, or anyone who has ideas on how we should shape the upcoming release.

IMPORTANT : All projects are requested to please reply to the list with the preferred, stable version number of their software to be included on OSGeo-Live 7.9.

Key Milestones

 * 14 Jan 2014 All new applications installed, most old applications updated
 * 31 Jan 2014 Feature Freeze (all apps updated)
 * 21 Feb 2014 User Acceptance Test (all apps installed and working)
 * 14 Mar 2014 Final ISO sent to printers

[http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB ... full schedule]

OSGeoLive 7.9 Alpha1 released
We have released the first alpha version of OSGeo-Live, which builds upon Xubuntu 12.04.3 release along with updated versions of applications from UbuntuGIS repository. Feel free to start testing your applications in the latest release. Download Alpha 1

About OSGeo-Live
OSGeo-live is an XUbuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything.