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.

Template Questions

 * date of the event, City, Country
 * link to event webside
 * Was OSGeo-Live handed out to attendees? How many were handed out? Were USBs or DVDs handed out? How many were handed out?
 * Was the OSGeo-Live lightening overview presented? To how many people? Was it a plenary event? If not, what percentage of the attendees attended this talk? Did you get any feedback? What did you hear?
 * Was OSGeo-Live used for workshops? What did the workshop cover. Was the USB/DVD or VM used? Were attendees computers used? If so, what operating systems were they running? How long did it take to set up? Were there any issues?
 * Any suggestions on what we can do to improve OSGeo-Live for future?

November 2012, Open Source GIS and Webmapping Workshop

 * Vienna (Austria)
 * Waiting on Barend Köbben to provide website url once details are finalised

October 2012, INTERGEO 2012

 * Hannover Germany
 * OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
 * Lightening presentation
 * http://intergeo.de

October 2012, Smart Korea 2012 in conjunction with OGC TC/PC Meeting

 * Seoul, Korea
 * OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
 * FOSS4G Korea will be held at the same period at the same venue
 * http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc

September 2012, Asia GeoSpatial Forum

 * Hanoi, Vietnam. 17~19th, September
 * OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
 * Open Source GIS Session
 * http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/

August 2012, 34th International Geological Conference

 * Brisbane, Australia
 * OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation by Peter Baunmann, conference convener
 * http://www.34igc.org/

July 2012, Third Open Source GIS Summer School

 * Girona, Spain
 * School program focused on the development and creation of Open Web Mapping Services and Web applications. Jeremy Morley (Lecturer and a theme leader at the NGI) will be contributing the Nottingham components for the Summer School. The course has been designed and will be conducted on a GNU/Linux operating system based on the use of the OSGeo-Live DVD.
 * http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/

July 2012, International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS)

 * Leipzig, Germany
 * ~ 100 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be handed out
 * OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
 * http://www.iemss.org/sites/iemss2012/sessions_D.html

July 2012, AGIT

 * Salzburg (Austria) Annual Conference
 * http://www.agit.at/
 * AGIT, Friday is OSGeo day, free booth together with OSM throughtout the week (Arnulf)
 * we want to hand out +- 500 OSGeoLive DVDs

June 2012, useR! The International R User Conference

 * Vanderbilt U, Nashville USA
 * http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/UseR-2012
 * Workshop Presentation on Geospatial Data in R, 33 attendees
 * Five or six OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs taken
 * Boot and demo at end of workshop.

June 28, 2012, OSGeo.nl Day (FOSS4G Regional) within MapWindow Conference - The Netherlands

 * Velp, The Netherlands
 * OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to all delegates
 * OSGeo-Live + OSGeo overview in keynote presentation
 * OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within the two workshops
 * http://osgeo.nl/osgeonl_dag_2012.html (OSGeo.nl Day Program + Pres. Slides)
 * http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012 (general MapWindow conf)

May 2012, FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012

 * Prague, Czech Republic
 * OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be used in workshops
 * OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
 * http://foss4g-cee.org/

May 2012, FOSSCOMM 2012

 * Serres, Greece
 * OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
 * 1 undergraduate thesis presentation using OSGeo-Live
 * http://serres.fosscomm.gr/?page_id=582

May 2012, HellasGI 2012

 * Athens, Greece
 * OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
 * Local chapter meeting

April 2012, COMEM OGO course :: Webmapping with OGC standards

 * April 16th, a course dedicated on geospatialized e-Content for Media Engineering bachelor students (http://www.comem.ch) at School of Engineering and Business Vaud (http://www.heig-vd.ch), Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains
 * Topic : learning webmapping and OGC standards with OpenLayers, GeoServer, PostGIS (http://ogo.heig-vd.ch)
 * A customized OSGeo-Live 5.5 VM has been used through VirtualBox by 15 students to execute several exercices and to build a five days project (http://carto.iict.ch)
 * Delivering a complete and ready to use geo-enabled VM is interessant for students to work in a kind of sandbox and to bring something easely back at home for later reuse.

April 2012, Geospatial World Forum 2012

 * The RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 * 4-hour "Open Source Seminar" organized by OSGeo/OSGeo Dutch Chapter with 11 speakers
 * OSGeo-Live lightning presentation (15mins)
 * http://www.geospatialworldforum.org/2012/open.htm

April 2012, FOSS4G North America 2012

 * Washington, United States
 * Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
 * OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation?
 * http://foss4g-na.org/

April 2012, GISRUK 2012

 * Lancaster University, UK
 * (probably) To be used for pre-conference workshop from Lutra Consulting
 * Around 200 DVDs to be handed out at the OSGeo-UK desk
 * http://www.lancs.ac.uk/gisruk2012/

April 2012, AGILE 2012

 * Avignon, France
 * http://agile2012.imag.fr/index.php/workshops/hands-on-qopen-source-gis-a-webmappingq
 * Open Source GIS & WebCartography workshop
 * OSGeo-Live USBs handed to all workshop attendees

March 2012, Association for Geographic Information Welsh Group Open Source Seminar

 * Wrexham, Wales, UK
 * DVDs handed out to all delegates (20)
 * http://astuntechnology.com/news/agi-open-source-training/ (proper link no longer available)

March 2012, AWRA GIS and Water Resources Conference

 * New Orleans
 * ~ 350 DVDs handed to delegates
 * http://awra.org/meetings/Spring2012/

March 2012, FOSSGIS 2012

 * Dessau, Germany
 * Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates - more than 400 DVDs
 * OSGeo-Live was mentioned in the opening speech
 * http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/
 * OSGeo-Live was mentioned a lot on the conference. Some presenter mentioned in their presentation, to test the new stuff with OSGeo-Live
 * How many people were in the workshop?
 * 21 Wokshops took place in total, 15 Workshop used OSGeo-Live 5.5, some of the workshops used a modified OSGeo-Live version
 * 5 - 20 persons were in the workshops
 * What format of OSGeo-Live was used? DVD? USB? VM?
 * Used with VirtualBox
 * Did students bring their own computers? What types of computers and operating systems were brought in?
 * No own computers. We used the computers with windows and VirtualBox from the GIS pool of the university
 * How much time was spent setting up the class with setting up OSGeo-Live?
 * This was done before the workshop

March 2012, Spanish FOSS4G 2012

 * Girona, Spain
 * OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation.
 * Possibly also handing out osgeo-live 5.5 DVDs?
 * http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/

March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum

 * Malaka, Malaysia
 * OSGeo-Live lightning overview presented
 * http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org

February 2012, AAG 2012

 * New York, New York
 * 25 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
 * FOSS4G Workshop for Educators
 * http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting

January 2012, Pleiades Days 2012

 * Toulouse, France
 * 50 OSGeo-Live 5.0 bootable thumb drives to be handed out
 * Website

October 2011, IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program

 * Burkina Faso
 * 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.

September 2011, Intergeo 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

September 2011, FOSS4G 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

June/July 2011, Open Source GIS Summer School

 * 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

August 2011, |Ecole d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement

 * Macapa, Brazil
 * OSGeo-Live 5.0RC1 on a USB was used in a workshop for 12 students learning OTB and Monteverdi.

June 2011, FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop

 * David Brower Environmental Center, USA
 * http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp.html
 * Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

June 2011, OSGIS 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
 * handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs to all delegates

May 2011, CGS 2011

 * Bishop CA, USA
 * ~10 discs

April 2011, GITA 2011

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

April 2011, AAG 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.

April 2011, FOSSGIS 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

November 2010, GeoData Camp

 * 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.

October 2010, Intergeo 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

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

April 2010, FIG 2010 - International Surveyors conference
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]

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

June 2009, Spatial@Gov

 * 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.

November 2008, Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference

 * Brisbane, Australia
 * Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

September 2008, FOSS4G 2008

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