Live GIS History
Revision as of 04:18, 10 April 2011 by astrid_emde (talk | contribs) (OSGeoLIve on FOSSGIS 2011 and Intergeo 2010)
OSGeo-Live Trophy Room
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.
[Live_GIS_Disk_FOSS4G_2010|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)
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
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.
FOSSGIS 2011
- April 2011, Heidelberg, Germany
- FOSSGIS is an anual 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
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)