IRC meetings at #foss4g channel, irc.freenode.net

Next IRC meeting

New meeting day: May 27 2010, 1600 UTC

Agenda

Live USB:
- An OSGeo Live DVD (or USB) will be handed out to every delegate at FOSS4G, and can be used either from the DVD or as a pre-installed Virtual Machine for workshops.
- The LiveDVD team would like to know how we can help workshop presenters make use of the LiveDVD.
- Do you want training material on the DVD?
- Do you want to set up specific examples?
Local (Catalan) Geodataset,
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FTP access: 63 Gb available. Folders there now for each workshop, with a 'data', 'printing', and 'software' folder in each. Connection params will be sent to presenters.
Jeff & Oscar will prepare a doc w/instructions and system details (vgr network drive paths, admin access) for presenters, and distribute it on May 10.
Will not provide printed materials for Tutorials. But will facilitate FTP access to upload docs, that will be linked from 2010.foss4g.org. Deadline for tutorial materials, same as workshops: July 7.
There will be 7 volunteers at workshops, preferently local students.
Local geodata: Just made a call in OSGeo-es and Barcelona lists. If no one takes this task, we will forget it.
Next IRC session in three weeks (2 may), same hour, same place.

As Jeff suggested, we will try to fix a calendar for the next important steps:

Plan for a deadline for presenters to provide full software requirements (versions etc)
Deadline for submitting materials
Plan for the machine setup

Make a wiki page to track all of the meetings (this one).
Create OSGeo FTP account, where instructors will put materials. One folder each workshop, with three subfolders: software; install and testing instructions; print materials. (Jeff McKenna's task).
Deadline for software and materials: 5th July. (August is specially improductive @ Spain).
Virtualbox client will be installed in all computers.
LOC should be aware that there's a need for 1 volunteer per classroom (access control, materials delivery), and handy technicians from the university during workshops.
LOC should decide on budget for tutorial printed materials.
Tutorials as hands-on experiences, with participants bringing their own laptop/netbook, don't succeed. It is better that tutorials are conceived as extended presentations, that can be followed without the software running in own's machine.
Oscar Fonts proposal: Try to use local geodatasets. Local volunteers are needed. Make a call @OSGeo-es and see.
Next meeting will be in a week +2 hours, so Eastern Canada people can participate.