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.

INTERGEO 2012

• October 2012, Hannover Germany
• OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed out
• Lightening presentation
• http://intergeo.de

International FOSS4G2012

• September 2012, Beijing, China
• OSGeo-Live 6.0 DVDs to be handed to all delegates
• Lightening presentation?
• http://2012.foss4g.org

International Environmental Modeling and Software Society Conference (IEMSS)

• July 2012, 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

MapWindow/FOSS4G Regional Netherlands

• June 2012, Velp, The Netherlands
• OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be handed out to all delegates
• OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
• http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2012/

FOSS4G-CEE & Geoinformatics 2012

• May 2012, Prague, Czech Republic
• OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to be used in workshops
• OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
• http://foss4g-cee.org/

FOSS4G North America 2012

• April 2012, Washington, United States
• Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
• OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation?
• http://foss4g-na.org/

FOSSGIS 2012

• March 2012, Dessau, Germany
• Hand out OSGeo-Live 5.5 DVDs to all delegates
• OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation
• http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz/2012/

Spanish FOSS4G 2012

• March 2012, Girona, Spain
• OSGeo-Live lightning overview presentation.
• Possibly also handing out osgeo-live 5.5 DVDs?
• http://www.sigte.udg.edu/jornadassiglibre/

Malaysian Geospatial Forum

• March 2012, Malaka, Malaysia
• OSGeo-Live lightning overview presented
• http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org

IAEA/FAO Coordinated Research Program

• Burkina Faso, October 2011
• 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.

Intergeo 2011

• September 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

FOSS4G 2011

September 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

Open Source GIS Summer School

• June/July 2011
• 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

d'été - Observation spatiale de l'environnement

August 2011, Macapa, Brazil

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

FLUXNET & RS Open-Workshop

June 2011, David Brower Environmental Center

• http://nature.berkeley.edu/biometlab/fluxnet2011/fluxwkshp.html
• Provided OSGeo LiveDVD to interested participants

OSGIS 2011

June 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
• Expect to be handing out DVDs to all delegates (to be confirmed)

CGS 2011

• May 2011, Bishop CA, USA
• ~10 discs

GITA 2011

• April 2011, Dallas Tx, USA
• 100 discs sent to OSGeo booth

AAG 2011

• April 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.

FOSSGIS 2011

• April 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

GeoData Camp

• November 2010, 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.

Intergeo 2010

• October 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

FOSS4G 2010

September 2010, Barcelona, Spain

• Provided a 90 minute tutorial of OSGeo Live
• OSGeo Live given to every delegate. (Release 4.0)

FIG 2010 - International Surveyors conference

April 2010, 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]

FOSS4G 2009

October 2009, Sydney, Australia

• Handed out 500 Live DVDs in every delegate's show bag. (Release: 2.0.3)

Spatial@Gov

June 2009, 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.

Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information Conference

November 2008, Brisbane, Australia

• Distributed ~ 250 OSGeo-Live DVDs to delegates (Release 1.0)

FOSS4G 2008

September 2008

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