Live GIS History

Where has the LiveDVD been used? Please tell us. A history of wide use provides justification for future developers to include, and improve their application on OSGeo-Live.

IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program

 * Burkina Faso, October 2011
 * This conference was the third in a series of semi-annual meetings reviewing research programs regarding two agricultural pests: Tsetse and Old/New World Screw-worm. The meetings focus on merging population genetics and GIS techniques to better understand the spread of these pests.
 * A customized version of the OSGeoLive 5.0 was prepared with data specific to Burkina Faso, and each of the 15 participants received a USB flash drive for the practice session. Some basic exercises were conducted demonstrating QGIS, Spatialite, and R.
 * Responses were overwhelmingly positive.

Intergeo 2011

 * September 2011, Nuremberg, Germany
 * Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
 * FOSSGIS e.V. (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an the OSGeo Park at Intergeo every year presenting OSGeo software. There also is a presentation area where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
 * Rest of the OSGeo-Live 4.5 handed out (aprox 100 DVDs)
 * http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php

FOSS4G 2011
September 2011, Denver, United States
 * OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 5.0)
 * 300 USBs printed, 600 DVDs
 * OSGeo-Live was used within many of the workshops

Open Source GIS Summer School

 * June/July 2011
 * University of Gerona, Gerona, Spain
 * The school taught Open Source GIS technologies and made use of the OSGeoLive DVD
 * http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/target-audience/prerequisites

|Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement
August 2011, Macapa, Brazil
 * OSGeo-Live 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop
June 2011, David Brower Environmental Center
 * http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp.html
 * Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

OSGIS 2011
June 2011, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
 * http://cgs.nottingham.ac.uk/~osgis11/os_home.html
 * Provided OSGeo-Live lightening presentation, abstract: Live_GIS_Disk_OSGIS_2011
 * Expect to be handing out DVDs to all delegates (to be confirmed)

CGS 2011

 * May 2011, Bishop CA, USA
 * ~10 discs

GITA 2011

 * April 2011, Dallas Tx, USA
 * 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

AAG 2011

 * April 2011, Seattle, WA USA
 * Annual Geography conference 8-10,000 attendants
 * ~30-50 discs given away at OSGeo booth
 * Remaining ~150 divided between CUGOS and Portland? chapters.

FOSSGIS 2011

 * April 2011, Heidelberg, Germany
 * FOSSGIS is an annual conference in german language with ~ 400 attendants
 * we printed OSGeo-Live 4.5 and handed out about 450 DVDs
 * OSGeoLive 4.5 was used sucessfully in ~ 12 workshops
 * Astrid Emde presented OSGeo-Live in a 20 min talk with focus on the background of the project and the possibilities the project offers
 * about 40 attendants

GeoData Camp
November 2010, Athens, Greece


 * Presented OSGeo-Live lightening presentation in Greek to more than 300 attendants. This included two 1-hour presentations in technical sessions and a 15 minute presentation in the main event.

Intergeo 2010

 * October 2010, Cologne, Germany
 * Intergeo is an anual big fair on geodesy, geoinformation and land management
 * FOSSGIS e.V. (german language local chapter of OSGeo) organizes an Open Source Park on Intergeo every year where OSGeo Software is presented. There also is a presentation area where we present OSGeo Software and solutions 3 days long
 * we printed OSGeo-Live 4.0 and handed out about 450 DVDs
 * Lars Lingner presented the DVD with Cameron Shorters presentation
 * http://www.intergeo.de/en/englisch/index.php
 * Feedback
 * good feedback: OSGeo-Live offers the possibility to get to know OSGeo Software without an installation

FOSS4G 2010
September 2010, Barcelona, Spain
 * Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
 * OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

FIG 2010 - International Surveyors conference
April 2010, Sydney, Australia
 * Handed out Live DVDs from OSGeo stand. (Release 3.0)
 * Provided 15 minute lightening talk about the OSGeo stack, promoting the LiveDVD. [Report], [presentation video]

FOSS4G 2009
October 2009, Sydney, Australia
 * Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

Spatial@Gov
June 2009, Canberra, Australia
 * Handed out Live DVDs from an OSGeo stand. (Release 1.0)
 * Cameron Shorter provided a 30 minute presentation on the Open Source GeoSpatial Stack.

Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference
November 2008, Brisbane, Australia
 * Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

FOSS4G 2008
September 2008
 * Handed out ~ 150 Live DVDs from the OSGeo stand. (Release: foss4g2008)