On 05/30/2013 07:10 AM, Ramirez, Paul M (398J) wrote:
All,
Not sure who to ask but figured this list could provide some insight. I'd like
to take the OSGeo-Live [1] and make it available on VM Depot [2] run by
Microsoft Open Tech. VM Depot is really just a community catalog of VMs that
could be easily spun up on Microsoft Azure. I would eventually like to do the
same on Amazon but for now this work aligns with other efforts in my day job.
It don't think there will be that much effort involved in doing this but I
wanted to make sure that this wasn't already done by someone and that it was
okay to essentially redistribute this work.
The intended purpose of this is to help make it easier for some NASA Earth
Science people I work with to have a platform to explore these technologies. We
would eventually extend on this VM with ways to interact with NASA
services/examples but figured this was an easy way to get bootstrapped. The
other motivation we have is to infuse FOSS4G technologies into our data systems
so this seemed like an avenue to do such a thing.
A little background on me. I was lucky enough to be able to participate on the
planning committee for this years FOSS4G NA but unfortunately sequestered and
unable to attend. Currently, I'm helping lead some working groups within NASA
that focus on Geospatial efforts so my motivation there is to help tie that
community to this one. I've worked for NASA for quite some time but over the
last 2 years have become passionate about the open source efforts in the
geospatial community.
Essentially, I really want to make sure that I credit OSGeo and all the people
that did the work but at the same time not infringe on their efforts in any
way. Any pointers, thoughts, concerns, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Paul Ramirez
[1] http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html
[2] http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index
It is absolutely ok to distribute. I don't think anyone has done it yet,
so you should and post back with the info for the community. We can even
add a link in the documentation about how to create a VM on Azure based
on the upload. We have talked about an EC2 instance also but no one has
done that yet either.
Let us know if you need anything, ie the VM drive in another format...
Thanks,
Alex
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