FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 28

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=The Easy steps to get your project on the FOSS4G Live DVD=

Sydney, Australia. 22 August 2009. http://2009.foss4g.org

The Arramagong Live DVD and GISVM projects are collaborating to create simple, automated install scripts for each GIS project, and we're calling on each project to help us write their script.

The scripts should cover the installation and configuration of each project into a base XUbuntu system. Separate scripts can optionally cover data, demos and tutorials.

For projects already packaged into ubuntu, an install script will likely be as simple as:

install_mapserver.sh

apt-get install cgi-mapserver
 * 1) !/bin/sh

Projects that haven't been packaged yet are slightly more complicated:

install_udig.sh

cd /usr/lib
 * 1) !/bin/sh

wget http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/branches/udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar.gz tar -xzf udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar rm udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar mkdir /tmp/udig_downloads/udig-data cd /tmp/udig_downloads/udig-data wget http://udig.refractions.net/docs/data-v1_1.zip unzip data-v1_1.zip rm data-v1_1.zip mv -rf /tmp/udig_downloads/udig-data /usr/local/share rm -rf /tmp/udig_downloads
 * 1) Install application
 * 1) Install data

As we are still bootstrapping the packaging project, and as we are very short on time before feature freeze, manual steps can be included as comments in each install script, and can be automated by a project member, or packager at a later date.

Packaging details are at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build

And help is available on the Live Demo list via Cameron Shorter, Stefan Hansen, Ricardo Pino, Hamish B, Alex Mandel, Massimo de Stefano and others.

The Arramagong Live DVD and GISVM projects are collaborating to provide a Live DVD for all delegates, and a GIS Virtual Machine at the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference this October, 2009.

About FOSS4G
FOSS4G is the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, which comes to Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009. FOSS4G offers presentations, workshops, demos, an install-fest, and a code sprint. It is presented by the world's best Developers, Policy Makers, Sponsors and Geospatial Professionals and includes the latest geospatial applications, standards, government programs, business processes and case studies. Topics include mobile platforms, location based applications, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, development, spatial standards, integration of cross-agency data, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Sensor Webs, Web Processing Services, Integration of Open Source and Proprietary Software and more.

Upcoming milestones

 * 14 Sep 2009, Final program available
 * 21 Sep 2009, Poster Submission closes
 * 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
 * 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
 * 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

Media Sponsors

 * Position Magazine: http://www.positionmag.com.au/
 * Asian Surveying and Mapping Newsletter: http://www.asmmag.com
 * Geoconnexions Magazine: http://www.geoconnexion.com/
 * Directions Magazine: http://directionsmag.com/
 * GIS Development: http://gisdevelopment.net/
 * Baliz Media: http://www.BALIZ-MEDIA.com/

For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/about_us/

or contact:

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-2-8570-5050

c a m e r o n. s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t. c o m