FOSS4G 2009 Live DVD

This page list specific information about the FOSS4G 2009 release of the OSGeo Live DVD.

About

Arramagong, the Linux based Live DVD, with windows installers, will be provided to all delegates at the FOSS4G conference. Further, this disk will be available for use at conferences and marketing events around the world long after FOSS4G making it a powerful marketing tool. If you are a good community organisor, or interested technical geek, please help out with this project.

Build Process

The Arramagong is built by creating an ISO image from GISVM, the GIS Virtual Machine project, so most of the building is described by the GISVM Build process.

Coordinator

• Cameron Shorter <camero n . short erATlisasoft DOTcom>

Communication

• The project is coordinated on the OSGeo live-demo mailing list, archived here
• IRC is currently on irc://freenode.net#osgeo until we get too busy and need a new channel.

Links

As at 1 Sept 2009, we have been updating the relevant wiki pages related to.

Here are the more up to date pages you should start with:

• GISVM_Build describes how to package files for the Arramagong Live DVD and GISVM projects.
• Live GIS Disc: Information about the GIS which isn't specific to this release.
• FOSS4G 2009 The Free and Open Source for Geospatial Conference
• FOSS4G_2009_Schedule (including the LiveDVD schedule)
• Live_GIS_Disc_Packages Contents of the LiveDVD