All, We’ve had success locally/regionally with preparing thumb drives with OSGeo-Live. I’m not sure about running everything over the internet in a training scenario, but there may be some good reasons to put some of the services into a dedicated location for online use.
The idea of having a online version running gets the idea mill running, what if something like that could be used to pick and choose from for preparing a USB drive for training sessions? bobb > On Oct 14, 2015, at 3:44 AM, Suchith Anand <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Sure. I am ccing both the Education community and OSGeo live communities in > this, so we get more ideas/inputs to make this possible. > > To give some background, we now have OSGeo Live being used not only for > running workshops in FOSS4G conferences but in so many training > programs/workshops/tutorials around the world. It is also a key resource for > geoeducation. So to make it more easy and scaleable for organising and > running these training events globally, i would like to get inputs for > Venka's ideas (details in email below) > > May i request all interested to please give your ideas/inputs esp. on > > 1.Do you think it is important to have a cloud service that runs the > OSGeo-Live VM > > 2.What are the steps that we need to take to make this possible > > Looking forward to your inputs. > > Suchith > > > > ________________________________________ > From: Cameron Shorter [[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 8:17 PM > To: Suchith Anand; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; Maria Antonia Brovelli > Subject: Re: Ideas/inputs for having a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live > VM > > Hi Suchith, > Good idea. Would it be ok if we discuss on a public email list? Probably > osgeo-live list, or education list. > Part of the success would come from people collating content for such a > course (which could be based on OSGeo-Live Quickstarts). > > Warm regards, Cameron > > > > On 14/10/2015 1:57 am, Suchith Anand wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> >> Myself, Maria and Peter are now at ESA event and had a chance to catch up on >> ideas for future to expand education globally. >> >> >> I also remembered that few months back, we had an initial discussion on the >> importance of having a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM to help >> running workshops at conferences, training events etc. Venka made this idea >> in one of the Geo4All AB discussions on workshops at FOSS4G Bonn that i copy >> below >> >> >> "Instead of buying 80-100 computers, it could be a worth considering to pay >> for a cloud service that runs the OSGeo-Live VM. Maybe one of our sponsoring >> companies could be approached to deploy such OSGeo Software as a Service >> solution.Such service could be made available to any event/institution >> wishing to run their own workshops anywhere place on earth with a good >> internet connection and thin client. For subsequent events or users could be >> charged to cover cost of cloud hosting and paying for some developers to >> maintain the system.If the experiment is successful, we can think of >> replicating it in our globally through our local chapters." >> >> >> Me, Maria and Peter in our discussions today, thought it is good time to >> start doing something about this and have this for scaling up our education >> and training needs globally. So it will be good to get ideas from key >> people, so i request you all to give your thoughts/ideas. >> >> >> 1.Do you think it is important to have a cloud service that runs the >> OSGeo-Live VM. >> >> 2.What are the steps that we need to take to make this possible >> >> Looking forward to your inputs. >> >> Suchith >> >> >> >> This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee >> and may contain confidential information. If you have received this >> message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. >> >> Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this >> message or in any attachment. 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