Live GIS Presentation

This page describes how to access and describes one way to create the OSGeo-Live Presentation and Video.

=Source Material=


 * Open Office Slides, script and abstract: https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/promo/trunk/en/presentation
 * Video: http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2010/09/osgeolive-40-lightening-overview.html

=Other OSGeo-Live Presentations=


 * November 2012, GFOSSDAY, Torino
 * Presenter: Luca Delucchi
 * A rapid outline of OSGeo-Live at a plenary session to celebrate the italian translation
 * Used the presentation of Jorge Sanz, presentation link


 * September 2012, OSGIS UK, Nottingham
 * Presenter: Barry Rowlingson
 * A rapid outline of OSGeo-Live at a plenary session to celebrate the release of 6.0
 * Used the presentation from SVN, updated with new screen shots, added commentary to slide notes, SVN-upped


 * March 2012, Spanish FOSS4G. December 2011, 7th gvSIG Conf
 * Authors: Jorge Sanz, Pedro-Juan Ferrer
 * In Spanish: http://jorgesanz.net/slides/girona-0312-osgeo-live/osgeo-live.html
 * In English: http://jorgesanz.net/slides-201209-geocamp (repo)
 * What is the OSGeo LiveDVD and project
 * The point of view of a local chapter: How the Spanish Local chapter has worked on translations
 * The point of view of a software project: How gvSIG has worked on the project.


 * June 2011, "Memoirs of a Cat Herder - Coordinating OSGeo-Live volunteers", GeoRabble (10 minute talks)
 * Author: Cameron Shorter
 * http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/memoirs-of-cat-herder-coordinating.html
 * The key success factors OSGeo-Live has used to attract and manage volunteers for OSGeo-Live
 * Also a bit about the project

=About the OSGeo-Live Presentation= We have created a half hour presentation, which provides a brief introduction the OSGeo Foundation, OGC standards, and starting the DVD. It then provides a lightning (20 second) overview of all applications installed on this DVD, which effectively provides a birds eye view of the breadth of robust GeoSpatial Open Source Software available.

We hope this presentation will be useful for people preparing presentations about geospatial open source.

=Building the Powerpoint slides= The slides simply contain a title, and a screen shot which is copied from the Project Overviews.

=Building the script= The script is derived primarily from the first paragraph or two of the Project Overviews, adjusted slightly to ensure that the script flows well between slides.

=Building the video on ubuntu= I'm sure there is an easier way to create a video, but here are steps which have worked so far.
 * Create Images of Slides
 * Install "shutter", an application for taking screen shots

sudo apt-get install shutter
 * Change Screen Resolution to 1024x768
 * Use shutter to take screen shot of each Open Office slide.


 * Audio recording
 * Use XXX to record the script for each slide


 * Postproduction
 * Use Kdenlive to cut and paste the audio and video together