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.

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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/

18-19 July 2012, FOSS4G Southeast Asia

Johor Bahru, Malaysia
OSGEO-live DVD used at the plenary session. Several slides from OSGeo-Live lightening overview presentation used plus some demonstration.

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/

6-7 March 2012, Malaysian Geospatial Forum

Malaka, Malaysia
http://www.malaysiageospatialforum.org
The OSGEO-Live lightening 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

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, 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