FOSS4G 2009 Press Release 28

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. . . DRAFT . . .

The Easy steps to get your project on the FOSS4G Live DVD

Sydney, Australia. 22 August 2009. http://2009.foss4g.org

The Arramagong Live DVD, GISVM, and OSGeo Live-Demo projects are collaborating to create a set of simple, automated install scripts for a wide variety of Free and open source GIS projects, and we're calling on each project to help us write a script for their software.

The scripts should cover the installation and configuration of each project into a base Xubuntu system. Separate scripts can optionally cover data, demos and tutorials.

For projects already packaged for Ubuntu or by DebianGIS, an install script will likely be as simple as:

install_mapserver.sh 

#!/bin/sh
apt-get install cgi-mapserver


Projects that haven't been packaged yet are slightly more complicated:

install_udig.sh 

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/lib

# Install application
wget http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/branches/udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar.gz
tar xzf udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar
\rm udig-1.2-M6.linux.gtk.x86.tar

# Install data
mkdir /tmp/udig_downloads/udig-data
cd /tmp/udig_downloads/udig-data
wget http://udig.refractions.net/docs/data-v1_1.zip
unzip data-v1_1.zip
\rm data-v1_1.zip
mv -rf /tmp/udig_downloads/udig-data /usr/local/share
rm -rf /tmp/udig_downloads


As we are still bootstrapping the packaging project, and as we are very short on time before feature freeze, manual steps can be included as comments in each install script, and can be automated by a project member, or packager at a later date.

Packaging details and examples can be found at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GISVM_Build

And help is available on the Live-Demo mailing list via Cameron Shorter, Stefan Hansen, Ricardo Pino, Hamish Bowman, Alex Mandel, Massimo de Stefano and others.

The Arramagong Live DVD and GISVM projects are collaborating to provide a Live DVD and GIS Virtual Machine for all conference delegates attending the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference this October, 2009.

Timeline

Date Date Milestone
7 Sep 2009 in 1 week LiveDVD Feature Freeze
11 Sep 2009 in 2 weeks LiveDVD Beta Release
18 Sep 2009 in 3 weeks LiveDVD Final Freeze
20 Sep 2009 in 3 weeks LiveDVD Final Release & sent to printers

About GISVM

GISVM is a Free(dom) and ready to use anywhere Geographic Information System Virtual Machine. Based on the amazing Virtualization technology it can be used on almost any operating system environment and is intended to be a hassle-free installation option for anyone that needs a ready to use GIS solution.

Homepage: http://www.gisvm.com/

About Arramagong Live DVD

The Arramagong Live DVD provides a stack of most of best Geospatial Open Source software, pre-configured with sample data. It is based on the XUbuntu linux operating system and also contains windows installers. It has been built by LISAsoft in conjunction with the Open Source Geospatial community.

About FOSS4G

FOSS4G is the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial conference, which comes to Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October 2009. FOSS4G offers presentations, workshops, demos, an install-fest, and a code sprint. It is presented by the world's best Developers, Policy Makers, Sponsors and Geospatial Professionals and includes the latest geospatial applications, standards, government programs, business processes and case studies. Topics include mobile platforms, location based applications, crowd sourcing, cloud computing, development, spatial standards, integration of cross-agency data, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Sensor Webs, Web Processing Services, Integration of Open Source and Proprietary Software and more.

Upcoming milestones

  • 14 Sep 2009, Final program available
  • 21 Sep 2009, Poster Submission closes
  • 20 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Workshop
  • 21-23 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Presentations and Tutorials
  • 24 Oct 2009, FOSS4G Code Sprint

Media Sponsors

For more information or to keep informed from the FOSS4G Organising Committee, join our email list or twitter feed at: http://2009.foss4g.org/about_us/

or contact:

Cameron Shorter, Chair of the FOSS4G Organising Committee and Geospatial Systems Architect at LISAsoft

tel +61-2-8570-5050

c a m e r o n . s h o r t e r @ l i s a s o f t . c o m

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