Live GIS Disc Press Release 2

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=Three weeks to Geospatial Live DVD 3.0 feature freeze= 14 January 2009

It is now decision time for determining what software will be stored on the Arramagong GIS Live DVD release 3.0. We have a feature freeze in 3 weeks which will allow us to have the live DVD ready for a number of large geospatial conferences in April. (If we have enough volunteers, we will be able to have the release ready for the large German Speaking conference in March as well).

We have successfully built our first 3.0-alpha1 release of Arramagong based on XUbuntu 9.10, with a few glitches in some packages. We hope projects will help us fix these over the next few weeks.
 * Build logs at: http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/3.0-alpha1/

We are now calling on projects to:

By 7 February 2010:
 * 1) Update their project install scripts to work with Ubuntu 9.10
 * 2) Verify which version of stable software will be installed on the liveDVD. Priority will be given to software already packaged for Ubuntu.
 * Update here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB

By [ DATE ]:
 * 1) Test the project's application in the LiveDVD
 * 2) Optional: refine documentation & general look and feel

About Arramagong
Arramagong is based on XUbuntu 9.10, and allows people to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is available as:
 * A Live DVD, which is regularly handed out at conferences, most recently being given to all delegates at the 2009 FOSS4G conference.
 * A Virtual Machine
 * Within a web browser from Click2Try: http://www.click2try.com/catalog/Web-Development/Geospatial/Arramagong-GISVM/details

The stack of popular GeoSpatial Open Source Applications included on the Arramagong LiveDVD includes:
 * deegree
 * GDAL
 * GeoKettle
 * GeoNetwork
 * GeoServer
 * GMT
 * GpsDrive
 * GRASS GIS
 * gvSIG
 * Kosmo
 * Mapfish
 * Mapnik
 * Mapserver
 * MapTiler
 * Marble
 * MB System
 * Open Jump
 * Open Layers
 * OpenStreetMap Editors
 * pgRouting
 * PostGIS
 * PROJ.4
 * QuantumGIS
 * R geostatistics
 * uDig

Milestones

 * 07 Feb 2010: Version 3.0 Feature Freeze
 * 14 Mar 2010: Version 3.0 Final Release

Interested?
You can find more details about the project on our wiki at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc

Then please contact our mailing list at: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo or contact Cameron Shorter directly at: cameronD O TshorterATlisasoftD O Tcom.