Live GIS History

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

See also Live GIS Testimonials.

Template Questions

 * date of the event or training course, or program
 * City, Country
 * link to webside
 * OSGeo-Live handed out to attendees? How many?
 * USBs, DVDs, or VMs used? How many?
 * OSGeo-Live lightning 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?
 * OSGeo-Live used for workshops or training programs? What did the workshop/training 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?
 * Contact: person (usually coordinator) who can be contacted to ask further questions

October 5th-9th 2015 Digital Earth 2015

 * Halifax, Nova Scotia · Canada
 * OSGeo-Live workshop?
 * Contact: Dirk Werle (conference chair), Brian Hamlin and Jeff McKenna (OSGeo-Live presenters)

14-19 September 2015: FOSS4G 2015

 * Seoul, South Korea
 * Contact: Sanghee Shin
 * OSGeo-Live USBs handed out, OSGeo-Live used in a number of the workshops

13-18 July 14, 2015: FOSS4G Europe

 * Como, Italy
 * Workshops, Conference, Codesprint
 * Contact: Maria Antonia Brovelli

8.-10. July 2015 AGIT Salzburg (Austria)

 * 8.-10.July 2015
 * Salzburg, Austria
 * http://agit.at/
 * OSGeo-Live postcards: xx
 * OSGeo-Live presentation
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

11. - 13. May 2015 Symposium Königslutter - Angewandte Kartographie - Geovisualisierung

 * Königslutter (Germany)
 * Workshop on OSGeo-Live
 * Workshop with OSGeo-live from USB
 * about 20 attendees
 * PostCards xx postcards to all delegates - about xx postcards
 * http://angewandte-kartographie.de/
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

1-3 June 2015: CalGIS

 * Sacramento, California, United States
 * http://www.calgis.org
 * Contact: Alex Mandel / Christina Boggs

11. - 13. March 2015 FOSSGIS

 * 11. - 13. March 2015
 * Münster, Germany
 * http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/
 * Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
 * see also http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2015/programm/events/904.de.html
 * Hand out OSGeo-Live 500 postcards to all delegates
 * > 21 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
 * 239 persons in the workshops
 * What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
 * USB Sticks
 * USB Sticks were given to the participants
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

9-11 March 2015 FOSS4G-NA

 * Burlingame, California, USA
 * Contact Andrew Ross

31 January 2015 FOSDEM
OSGeo live (live.osgeo.org) is a self-contained bootable dvd, usb thumb drive or virtual machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It also contains a set of uniform documentation (description and quickstarts) to guide people around the different projects. Even though OSGeo live is based on the packages in Debian, both projects diverted and where OSGeo live managed to get a large (100+) community of contributors, progress in Debian GIS was stalling. Recently however, a new wind is blowing in Debian GIS (among others with the Debian pure blends initiative) and many changes from OSGeo live are being incorporated back into Debian. Apart from presenting both projects I will highlight some problems people encounter when they would like to add their package to Debian GIS, and how Debian pure blends try to solve this.
 * Location: Brussels, Belgium
 * 31 January & 1 February 2015
 * Presentation: From Debian-GIS to OSGeo live and back
 * Description: Debian GIS is a project with the goal of making Debian the best distribution for Geographical Information System applications.
 * Speaker: Johan Van de Wauw
 * https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/from_debian_gis_to_osgeo_live_and_back/

2-5 December 2014, FOSS4G Asia

 * Bankok, Thailand
 * OSGeo-Live lightning talk presented.
 * planning to use OSGeo-Live at the workshop.
 * Planning to distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs in the conference kit.
 * Contact: Venkatesh Raghavan, Heegu Park

28 November 2014, Illinois State GIS Association Annual Conference

 * Chicago, Illinois, US
 * OSGeo-Live presentation given, which was well attended, with a number of people coming and asking questions afterwards.
 * Handed out 23 OSGeo-Live USBs
 * Contact: Bob Basques

6 November 2014, beOpenGISfr

 * Brussels, Belgium
 * http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/
 * OsGeo-Live VM was used during workshops. Approx 90 USB sticks with OSGeo-live were distributed
 * Contact: Moritz Lennert
 * Photos: http://be-opengis.ulb.ac.be/photos.html

7-9 October 2014, INTERGEO 2014

 * Berlin, Germany
 * http://intergeo.de
 * OSGeo-live Postcards
 * presentation about OSGeo-Live in the Open Source Park http://www.intergeo.de/intergeo/besucher/messe/opensource-park.php
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

8-13 September 2014, International FOSS4G

 * Portland, Oregon, USA
 * https://2014.foss4g.org/
 * Contact: ?
 * 300 8Gig OSGeo-Live USBs handed out from the OSGeo Booth.
 * OSGeo-Live VM used for many of the workshops.

2-3 September 2014, OSGIS 2014

 * University of Nottingham, UK
 * http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx
 * Contact: Suchith Anand

27-28 August 2014 FOSS4G Korea

 * COEX, Seoul, Korea
 * Handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs
 * Contact: Sanghee Shin

21-25 July, 2014. Urban Informatics Postgraduate Elective

 * University of Melbourne, Australia
 * USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to 25 enrolled students
 * Students had a choice of USB or VM
 * Contact: A/Prof Chris Pettit, Dr Jack Barton

15.-17. July 2014 FOSS4G-Euope

 * Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
 * http://foss4g-e.org/
 * about 160 attendents
 * OSGeo table together with FOSSGIS e.V.
 * USB stick with OSGeo-Live 7.9 was handed out to every participant
 * Presentation on OSGeo-Live http://kalxas.github.io/OSGeoLive-presentation/#/
 * Code Sprint for version 8.0 at friday 18th july 2014
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

7-11 July 2014, Fifth Open Source Opportunities in GIS 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
 * Girona, Spain
 * http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2014/
 * The Summer School is focused on the development and creation of Open Web Services and Web Applications, especially on the publication of data on the web. With this goal, the programme will cover topics related to the acquisition and importation of OpenStreetMap data into a spatial database, creation of geospatial web services and development of internet viewers for publishing geospatial data.
 * http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
 * Contact: Lluis Vicens

1-3 July 2014, AfricaGeo

 * Cape Town, South Africa
 * http://www.africageo.org/
 * presentation and paper based on OSGeo-Live (and distribution of ~550 OSGeo-Live DVDs in delegate bags)
 * Contact: Gavin Fleming, Tim Sutton

ANLiegen Natur (journal: article - print and online)

 * journal focused on applied nature conservation (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
 * June 2015
 * journal: ANLiegen Natur 36(1)
 * Open Data und freie und offene Geographische Informationssysteme (FOSSGIS) – ein Werkzeug für den (ehrenamtlichen) Naturschutz?
 * Open Data and free and open source software for geographic information systems (FOSSGIS) – a tool for (voluntary) nature conservation?
 * article
 * Contact: Helmut Kudrnovsky

17-20 June 2014, USFWS National GIS Workshop

 * West Virginia, USA
 * http://training.fws.gov/nctcweb/catalog/CourseDetail.aspx?CourseCodeLong=FWS-CSP7304
 * Contact: Doug Newcomb
 * Presented OSGeo-Live presentation, handed out OSGeo-Live DVDs

10-13 June 2014, OGRS 2014

 * Helsinki, Finland
 * http://2014.ogrs-community.org/
 * Contact: Ari Jolma

2-4 July 2014, AGIT26

 * Salzburg, Austria
 * http://www.agit.at
 * OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programmagit/themen-schwerpunkte/osgeo-day-osgeo-park-2014
 * OSGeo Booth, OSGeo-Live Postcards, OSGeo flyer, OSGeo Day and workshops
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

20-22 May 2014 FOSS4G-FR

 * Paris, France
 * Contact: Vicent Picavet

21 May 2014 QLD Open Source Spatial Workshop

 * Brisbane, Australia
 * http://www.sssi.org.au/Events/QLD-Open-Source-Spatial-Workshop/eid/988.html
 * OSGeo-Live DVD handed out to all participants and used in hands on workshops
 * Contact: Shaun Kolomeitz

27 April – 2 May, 2014 European Geosciences Union General Assembly

 * Vienna, Austria
 * http://www.egu2014.eu/
 * 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out to participants
 * Contact Peter Löwe
 * Detailed report and lessons learned: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/EGU_Townhall_2014#OSGeo-Live_DVDs

26-28 March 2014, 8as Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G)

 * 26 - 28 March 2014 in Girona
 * http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
 * 6 Workshops will take place, using OSGeo-Live
 * Introduction to QGIS
 * Integration of Free Geospatial Technologies
 * Introduction to python for geospatial applications
 * Introduction to MapProxy
 * Developing mobile applications with Glob3 mobile SDK
 * Creating Web Applications with AngularJS AND LeafletJS
 * What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
 * VirtualMachine
 * Contact: Lluís Vicens

19. - 21. March 2014 FOSSGIS

 * 19. - 21. March 2014
 * Berlin, Germany
 * http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2014/
 * Videos on youtube: http://youtube.com/fossgis
 * Hand out OSGeo-Live 7.9 postcards to all delegates - about 550 postcards
 * Presenatation about OSGeo-Live OSGeo-Live rocks! maybe
 * > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live
 * 204 persons in the workshops
 * What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
 * VirtualMachine
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

23 February 2014 FOSS4G Sri Lanka

 * Malabe, Sri Lanka
 * OSGeo-Live Presentation including demo of OSGeo-Live
 * Handed out OSGeo Live 7.0 DVDs
 * Contact: Nimalika Fernando

1-2 February 2014 FOSDEM

 * Brussels, Belgium
 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSDEM2014
 * Presentation of OSGeo Live Overview on a screen, event was attended by ~5000 people, OSGeo stand got visit of at least 500 (all marketing material was given away)
 * Contact: Anne Ghisla

23-25 January 2014 Societal GIS training workshop

 * Rajahmundry, India
 * OSGeo India had a 3 day Societal GIS training workshop.
 * Used OSGeo Live-7, both DVD and USB driven. Wish to use Virtual Box as Windows-8 has serious booting issues and OSGeo-Live works fine with Virtual Box (Sun Microsystems).
 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_and_Adi_Kavi_Nannaya_University_Training_workshop_23_-_25_January_2014

4-6 December 2013, National Seminar on 'Remote Sensing and GIS for Environment', India

 * Visakhapatnam, India
 * OSGeo booth attracted a bee line of students who were eager to experiment with OSGeo software. Copies of OSGeo Live-DVD were distributed to all those who have answered a questionnaire quizzing about OSGeo and FOSS GIS.
 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_Booth_at_Visakhapatnam.2C_India

14-15 November 2013, FOSS4G Korea 2013

 * Seoul, Korea
 * http://www.osgeo.kr/135/
 * OSGeo Live DVD will be distributed at the FOSS4G Korea venue and through KAOS-G booth at Smart GeoExpo Korea 2013.
 * Contact: Sanghee Shin

4-8 November 2013, AfricaGIS 2013 / GSDI 14

 * Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 * http://www.gsdi.org/gsdiconf/gsdi14/
 * Lightning overview presented (reveal JS version)
 * Contact: Gavin Fleming

8-10 October 2013, INTERGEO 2013

 * Essen, Germany
 * http://intergeo.de
 * it is planned to hand out 500 OSGeo 7.0 DVDs
 * slides about OSGeo-Live in FOSSGIS e.V. presentation
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

24 - 26 Sept 2013, Asian Geospatial Forum 2013

 * Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
 * http://www.asiageospatialforum.org
 * OSGEO-Live and ICA-OSGEO lab network presentation
 * Contact: Thuy Vu

19 - 21 Sept 2013, INCA-33 International Congress India

 * Jodhpur, India
 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User_talk:Ravivundavalli#OSGeo_India_.40_INCA-33_International_congress.2C_Jodhpur.2C_Rajasthan.2C_India
 * Through OSGeo India booth 100 Live-DVDs are distributed
 * Contact: ravivundavalli@yahoo.com

17-21 September 2013, FOSS4G

 * Nottingham, United Kingdom
 * http://2013.foss4g.org
 * Contact: Steven Feldman

25-30 August 2013, International Cartographic Conference

 * Dresden, Germany
 * http://www.dgfk.net/index.php?id=164&do=akt
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

8-12 July 2013, Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School

 * Girona, Catalonia, Spain
 * About 25 students running OSGeo-Live in a Virtual Machine (Virtual Box).
 * http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2013/
 * Contact: Lluís Vicens

3-5 July 2013, AGIT25

 * Salzburg, Austria
 * http://www.agit.at
 * OSGeo Day http://www.agit.at/index.php/programm-2013/themen/osgeo
 * Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs at FOSSGIS/OSGeo Booth - about 200 DVDs
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

10 June 2013, FROG (FRancophone Opensource Geomatique)

 * Paris, France
 * http://osgeo.asso.fr
 * Distribution to participants ?
 * Contact : Vincent Picavet

12.-14. June 2013 FOSSGIS

 * 12.-14. June 2013
 * Rapperswil, Switzerland
 * http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/
 * Hand out OSGeo-Live 6.5 DVDs to all delegates - about 350 DVDs
 * Presenatation about OSGeo-Live OSGeo-Live rocks! by Astrid Emde http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2013/programm/events/576.de.html
 * > 10 Workshops will take place, most of them will use OSGeo-Live 6.5
 * 5 - 20 persons in the workshops
 * What format of OSGeo-Live was used?
 * VirtualMachine
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

17-19 June 2013, FOSS4G-CEE 2013

 * Bucharest, Romania
 * OSGeo-Live 6.5 (or higher) DVDs will be handed out to all participants (conference target: 300)
 * Some workshops are expected to make use of OSGeo-Live (call for workshops opens June 13th)
 * A OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation is welcome (call for presentations opens June 13th)
 * http://2013.foss4g-cee.org
 * Contact: Vasile Crăciunescu

21 May 2013, Location Intelligence Conference

 * Washington DC, United States
 * OSGeo-Live presentation by Amy Gao

29-30 April, 2013 GIS In Action

 * April 29 to May 1, 2013,
 * Portland, Oregon
 * http://www.orurisa.org/GIS_In_Action (website is reused every year, Archive.org site)
 * The DVD was used to run demos at the booth. A limited number of copies were available to hand out to people who seemed very interested.
 * The PDX-OSGeo chapter also helps organize an Open Source Track at GIS In Action which was very popular. This year, there was not a specific talk about the LiveDVD although it is often mentioned as a great way to try out software that people ask about.
 * On May 2, there was an unconference where the LiveDVD was frequently referenced.
 * Contact: EliL

24 April, 2013 FOSS4G Buenos Aires 2013

 * 24 to 26 of April 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 * http://www.foss4g.org.ar/
 * Unfortunately there was a problem with the DVD distributor and the participants didn't receive a copy.
 * OSGeo Live presentation by Jorge Sanz
 * OSGeo Live was used on the MapProxy workshop by the lecturer and some attendants that were able to run it on Virtual Box
 * Contact: Mauricio Miranda

10 April, 2013 EGU 2013

 * Vienna, Austria
 * http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/13223
 * DVD-distribution to journalists
 * splinter meeting with short presentation and screenshots of OSGeo-Live
 * Contact: Peter Löwe

6-8 March 2013, Jornadas de SIG Libre (Spanish FOSS4G2013)

 * Girona, Spain
 * http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre
 * Contact: Lluis Vicens

17-18 January 2013, WhereCampEU

 * Rome, Italy
 * http://wherecamp.eu/
 * OSGeo-Live presentation by Luca Delucchi

4-7 December 2012, Open Source Developers Conference

 * Sydney, Australia
 * http://www.osdc.com.au/
 * OSGeo-Live presentation by Cameron Shorter
 * Contact: Cameron Shorter

22-24 November 2012, PhilGEOS 2012

 * Quezon City, Philippines
 * http://philgeos2012.wordpress.com/
 * Over 60 participants joined 8 workshops and 3 lightning talks. The OSGeo Live project was also presented in one of the parallel technical sessions in the main conference. Likewise, an exhibit booth was installed during the PhilGEOS conference for OSGeo and OpenStreetMap. Over ~50 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
 * Contact: Maning Sambale

17-18 November 2012, OpenGIS

 * Moscow, Russia
 * conference on everything related  to  free  and  opensource  GIS:  data,  software, methodology, organized by members of Russian GIS-Lab and OpenStreetMap communities.
 * Over 200 participants; OSGeo-Live DVD was used in GRASS GIS workshop; ~10 OSGeo Live DVDs were handed out to conference participants.
 * http://gisconf.ru/en/
 * Contact: Maxim Dubinin, Alexander Mury

14-17 November 2012, GFOSSDAY 2012 - OSMit 2012

 * Turin, Italy
 * http://www.gfoss.it/drupal/gfossday2012
 * OSGeo-Live software directly used from VMs within five workshops
 * OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
 * Title: OSGeo-Live: il più semplice strumento per provare le applicazioni GFOSS / OSGeo-Live: the simplest way to test FOSS4G software
 * Contact: Luca Delucchi

14-16 November 2012, EGU Leonardo Conference

 * Turin, Italy
 * http://www.eguleonardo2012.polito.it/
 * Poster presentation in Session: Population
 * Notes: Poster Presentations consist in a quick (1-Slide) oral overview during the sessions and in the attendance by the poster stand between the sessions.
 * Title: A complete review of the breadth of quality Geospatial Open Source Software available to Hydrologists, using OSGeo-Live
 * Contact: Margherita Di Leo

12-13 November 2012, SWE-SmartCities Workshop

 * Barcelona, Spain
 * https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5tKYbjsGOrxWkVwWWZsM2NHNlk/edit
 * Sensor Web Enablement workshop held by 52°North
 * 21 OSGeo-Live handed to the participants and used for the exercises
 * The DVD was used for a training workshop on OGC Sensor Web Enablement. Participants worked with the 52°North SOS and the 52°North WPS. The DVD was mostly used, in some cases the VM was used.During the training, the participants used their own laptop computers (a full mix of all operating systems).There was no dedicated time needed for setting up the DVD. No issues occured.
 * Contact: Estela Llorente López, Simon Jirka (52°North)

November 2012, Open Source GIS and Webmapping Workshop

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

25-26 October 2012, FOSS4G-India

 * Hyderabad, India
 * http://lsi.iiit.ac.in/foss4gindia
 * OSGeo-Live DVDs to be handed out to all participants
 * OSGeo-Live to be used in workshops
 * OSGeo-Live Presentation to be given by K S Rajan
 * Contact: K S Rajan

October 2012, LatinOSGIS

 * Guayaquil, Ecuador
 * OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
 * lightning presentation by Mauricio Miranda
 * http://www.fiec.espol.edu.ec/LatinOSGIS
 * Contact: Indira Yadira Nolivos Alvarez

17,18 October 2012, GeoINT 2012

 * Orlando Florida
 * OSGeo-Live link handed out
 * mentioned in various panels and forums
 * geoint2012.com
 * Contact: Mark Lucas and John Scott

17-19 October 2012, Geospace Europe Summit 2012

 * Brussels Belgium
 * OSGeo-Live link handed out
 * Presentation pointing to live.ogeo.org efforts
 * http://defence.flemingeurope.com/geospatial-intelligence-europe
 * Contact: Mark Lucas

17-19 October 2012, Latinoware

 * Keynote presentation by Jody Garnett including parts of the OSGeo Lightning presentation
 * http://2012.latinoware.org/?lang=en, http://2012.latinoware.org/?page_id=228
 * Contact: Jody Garnett

October 2012, INTERGEO 2012

 * Hannover Germany, 9.-11.10.2012
 * ~600 OSGeo 6.0 (and some of Version 5.5.) DVDs were distributed
 * slide about OSGeo-Live in FOSSGIS e.V. presentation
 * very good feedback to the DVD. Lot of people already know OSGeo-Live
 * http://intergeo.de
 * Contact: Astrid Emde

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

 * Seoul, Korea
 * Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out at OSGeo booth there
 * http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1210tc
 * Contact: Sanghee Shin

11-13 October 2012, XXXII INCA International Conference 2012

 * Dehradun, India
 * http://www.incaindia.org/32INCA/
 * Nearly 80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/IIRS Booth. Posters with screenshots of some applications with local data were put up.
 * Explained delegates about OpenSource GIS. Demonstrated QGIS to anyone with a question. Demoed OpenCPN to some of the folks from National Hydrographic Office.
 * Contact: Chaitanya Kumar CH

October 12, 2012, FOSS4G Korea 2012

 * COEX, Seoul, Korea
 * Nearly 70~80 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out during the event and brief explanation of OSGeo-Live project was given to participants
 * FOSS4G Korea will be held in conjunction with Smart Korea 2012
 * http://www.osgeo.kr
 * Contact: Sanghee Shin

October 3-5, 2012, Minnesota GIS/LIS 2012

 * Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
 * OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs handed out at OSGeo/FOSS4GNA Booth.
 * OSGeo-Live ODP file set to loop on digital display in booth, augmented with local OSGeo project screenshots.
 * Annual Conference and Workshops.
 * http://www.mngislis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=718
 * Contact: Bob Basques

October 2012, GISSA Ukubuzana conference

 * 1-3 October, Johannesburg, South Africa
 * ~450 OSGeo 6.0 DVDs were distributed
 * Lightning overview wwas also presented
 * It was also used in two workshops ('Intro to PostGIS and QGIS' and 'Enterprise GIS with FOSS')
 * http://gissa.org.za/activities/conferences/gissa-ukubuzana-2012
 * More were distributed and used in workshops at the launch of the University of Pretoria ICA/OSGeo Lab on 4 Oct
 * Gavin Fleming

September 2012, Geocamp

 * September 22nd, Campo Maior, Portugal
 * http://geocampers.com
 * OSGeo project presentation: how the project is managed, how translations work, how a project is involved
 * Contact: Jorge Sanz, Hugo Santos info (at) geocampers (dot) com

September 2012, Asia GeoSpatial Forum

 * Hanoi, Vietnam. 17~19th, September
 * Around 50 OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs were handed out to the participants.
 * A presentation on OSGeo overview and OSGeo-Live was given in oral presentation session
 * Open Source GIS Session
 * http://www.asiageospatialforum.org/
 * Contact: Sanghee Shin

5 September 2012 Open Source GIS Conference (OSGIS)

 * Nottingham, United Kingdom
 * All day session: "Educational use of OSGeo Live" presented by Ari Jolma
 * 100 OSGeo-Live DVDs handed out
 * OSGeo-Live lightning presentation by Barry Rowlingson
 * http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/
 * Contact: Suchith Anand

August 2012, 34th International Geological Conference

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

18-19 July 2012, FOSS4G Southeast Asia

 * Johor Bahru, Malaysia
 * OSGEO-live DVD used at the plenary session. Several slides from OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation used plus some demonstration.
 * OSGeo-Live handed out to all delegates.
 * Contact: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

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/
 * Contact: Lluís Vicens

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
 * Contact: Daniel P. Ames

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 30 - July 1, 2012, FOSS4G Hokkaido 2012

 * Sapporo, Hokkaido JAPAN
 * 50 OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs handed out to delegates
 * OSGeo.JP and OSGeo-Live overview in keynote presentation
 * Website (in Japanese)
 * Facebook (in Japanese)

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 (about 120). This included a large contingent of OSGeo-NL people who I heard were very appreciative of the DVD.
 * 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)
 * Contact: Daniel P. Ames

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/
 * Contact: Jachym Cepicky

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/

6-7 March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum

 * Malaka, Malaysia
 * http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org
 * The OSGEO-Live lightning overview was presented to around 50 attendees (of approximately 300 attendees of the whole event). Positive feedbacks, the common question was which package should be used to their work.

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

February 2012, GIS courses

 * 6-10 Feb, Enterprise GIS course at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
 * 13-17 Feb, Introduction to QGIS and PostGIS course, Muizenberg, South Africa
 * OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees (~15 each)
 * Ran in first session of workshops as LiveDVD to browse through the ecosystem and get a feel for Linux and FOSS GIS.
 * Gavin Fleming

January 2012, Pleiades Days 2012

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

December 2011, Enterprise GIS course at the Council for Geoscience

 * 12-14 Dec, Cape Town, South Africa
 * OSGeo 5.0 DVDs handed out to course attendees
 * We set up the VM on Windows for part of the workshop. Demo'd QGIS server and browsed through the system for an overview of other tools.
 * It would be nice to have OpenGeo Suite Community Edition installed. It could provide PostGIS and GeoServer to the rest of the DVD. Also GeoNode.
 * Gavin Fleming

November 2011, FOSS4G Tokyo/Osaka 2011

 * Tokyo and Osaka, JAPAN
 * each 50+ OSGeo-Live 5.0 DVDs handed to delegates
 * Website (in Japanese)
 * Website (in Japanese)

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_post.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 lightning 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 lightning 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 lightning 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)