[Live-demo] Adding saga gis to live demo?

2010-07-01 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hello, I would like to add saga gis [1] to the live cd. I have attached a proposal for an install script, which basically installs the debian package[2] of saga gis from ubuntugis and dowloads the user guide. If you like having saga on the disk (the program is about 5Mb, userguide 12Mb, I'll proc

Re: [Live-demo] Adding saga gis to live demo?

2010-07-03 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Hamish wrote: > Glad to see SAGA finally in Debian! Next stop Ubuntu 10.10... Glad to hear hear you are glad and uhm... next stop taken! https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/saga > > > Hamish > > > ps- any Starspan advocates in the house? >  http://starspan.proje

Re: [Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo] #545: No documentation for GDAL/OGR

2010-07-06 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
manfiles for these programs are included. Perhaps you could just point there? On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > On 06/29/2010 01:54 AM, OSGeo wrote: >> #545: No documentation for GDAL/OGR >> ---+ >>  Repor

Re: [Live-demo] Version 4 beta 2 up

2010-07-13 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: >> Saga prompted my to confirm an apt-get install. Oops, my error, fixed in svn. > > A note on the ubuntugis ppa, we should probably shift the code to: > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable > > Add the repo via a sources fi

Re: [Live-demo] Alternative to describing maturity with stars?

2010-07-13 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I've only recently joined this list, so maybe someone suggested this already: you could include something like the info that ohloh gives in their analysis summary. Eg: http://www.ohloh.net/p/saga-gis Apart from the project summary, I rather believe in a 'task view' approach of rating software. Loo

[Live-demo] images in project_description.html ?

2010-07-15 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
While browsing through the project description files I noticed that nobody is using images in them. I wanted to use something similar to: http://saga-gis.org/en/about/software.html which I believe is much more pleasing than just text only. Is there any objection to this type of project description

Re: [Live-demo] 4.0 beta3 Online

2010-07-23 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Are there any problems with the live dvd run natively when the virtual box helper tools are installed? Unless people oppose I can try to make a test build this weekend with virtual box already installed and see if there are issues when you run it natively. Johan On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:34 AM, A

Re: [Live-demo] act now and collect the entire osgeo set for just one low low price

2010-07-27 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
>> not formally installed, but brought in by others so could use with some >> docs to promote them anyway: >> * GDAL/OGR Apart from a quickstart/overview, I think we could just install libgdal-doc . This contains basically all documentation on their website under file:///usr/share/doc/libgdal-doc/

[Live-demo] Still add some demo data?

2010-07-27 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hi all, I was expecting to find some more demo data from the region around Barcelona (especially the SRTM), and to use that one for the quickstart guide for saga gis. Are there still plans to add such files, or should/can I add my own demo file (in the install script?) (It's just a file of halve

Re: [Live-demo] Still add some demo data?

2010-07-27 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
m encouraging projects to make use of the naturalearth dataset for demos, > as these datasets are global, and hence quickstarts will not need to be > rewritten every year. > > You can see which datasets are available by looking at the > bin/install_gisdata.sh script. > > On 27/07

[Live-demo] Re: Review of SAGA GIS overview docs

2010-07-30 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Hi Johan, These docs are looking good. > Cameron: I suggest explaining what R is, and you don't need to mention how > you access it (users don't care). Maybe "Access statistical functions from > `R R_overview.rst`_ " I tried this - but t

Re: [Live-demo] 4.0 rc5 build

2010-07-31 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Hamish wrote: > - "Show top 50 packages hogging the most space on the disc: >   ... >   94.449 MB        linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic >   92.430 MB        linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic" >   Alex: can you check & remove linux-image-2.6.32-21-generic by hand please

Re: [Live-demo] 4.0 rc5 build

2010-07-31 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
stly, I think the DVD could definitely ship without that optimization > > best regards >  -Brian > > > On Jul 31, 2010, at 4:43 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Hamish wrote: >> >>> - "Show top 50 packages hogging the most

[Live-demo] openjump doesn't work in rc5

2010-08-01 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
It seems nobody reported this before, but I noticed that openjump doesn't start anymore in rc5. Error while booting: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so is missing ___ Live-demo mailing list Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osge

Re: [Live-demo] ZOO Project integration

2010-08-03 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Since it was intended to be on this disk, but only excluded by a forgotten line in the build script, I'm also in favor, unless of course there are real problems with the program or install script (or insufficient disk space?). I guess removing all references to the project in this phase can actuall

Re: [Live-demo] 4.0rc7 Trimming for Space

2010-08-12 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Even if we don't do the fully automated fslint thing, I guess the program still poitns to a few unnecessary double files: libgdal.so and libNCSEcw.so have copies instead of symlinks as their versioned versions, wasting 27Mb. GeoNetwork opensource Manual is provided twice (4 Mb) Geopublisher tutori

Re: [Live-demo] Draft Lightening Presentation

2010-08-30 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
It seems that your link is broken. Johan On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: >  I've put   together a lightening presentation, with slides and a script, > aimed to fit in to a 20 minute presentation slot. > Slides and script are here: > > http://download.osgeo.org/livedvd/do

Re: [Live-demo] osgeolive overview presentation

2010-08-31 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Are you sure this is the last version? many thing already told here don't seem to be fixed eg: - gvsig/qgis missing - icons on slide 23 (Web) should go to slide 28 (Desktop) On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Jody Garnett wrote: > With a bit of help (thanks!) and a bit of prompting I have the > pr

Re: [Live-demo] OSGeo Production Server

2010-09-28 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Hernan Olivera wrote: > Hi > > Is OsGeo live dvd installed to hard disk ok for production use? No > If not, what would be necessary to do that? At least security updates (which requires that programs can easily be built from source, and people maintaining the packa

Re: [Live-demo] OSGeo Production Server

2010-09-30 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > I suggest you try migrating one application to a .deb file, and see how > feasible it is, then we can work out a strategy for the rest of the > applications. > > I suspect that the migration to ubuntu/debian will be a long term thing, > wh

Re: [Live-demo] Re: Prune in the OSGeoLive DVD?

2010-10-10 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:00 PM, activityworkshop wrote: >> Are packages for lucid available from an ubuntu launchpad ppa? (if not >> you can probably submit them to UbuntuGIS's one) or as a simple .deb >> download? >> > > Um... I don't know enough about Ubuntu or launchpad ppas to answer that on

Re: [Live-demo] Saving 600mb of disk space

2010-10-11 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
svn directories are indeed an example which should not be added. It is possible to exclude them: Q. From the command line how do I exclude paths matching a pattern? A. To exclude directories: findup \( -path "*/.svn" \) -prune -o To exclude files: findup \( ! -name "*.py[co]" \) But actua

Re: [Live-demo] OSGeo-Live Greek translation

2010-10-12 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Angelos wrote: > Also, I am developing a free algorithm/software for object based image > analysis (something similar to eCognition) and plan to release some alpha > version very soon. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mseg/ You might be interested to check a simi

Re: [Live-demo] Which 2011 conferences should we distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs at?

2010-10-28 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > As I mentioned in a previous thread I think we should stick to Ubuntu > 10.04 for this next release to save ourselves some time/work on the base > system that could be more focused towards improvements of other > features. (Note: I've also see

Re: [Live-demo] Draft press release for upcoming 4.5 release

2010-11-23 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Not really a comment on the press release, but I think it would be useful to select the datasets that we want to put on the next osgeo live dvd quickly. That way we can make sure that new/updated quickstarts already use those datasets. I'm also wondering about the review and the translations of th

Re: [Live-demo] ORFEO Toolbox in OSGeoLive?

2011-01-11 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Since On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Manuel Grizonnet < manuel.grizon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The toolbox (and also related projects) are also provided as binary > packages for Windows, Mac and recently also on Linux Platforms. An OTB > repository is available on launchpad.net for Ubuntu plat

Re: [Live-demo] ORFEO Toolbox in OSGeoLive?

2011-01-12 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > > 5. I notice the CeCILL licence you use is not listed on OSI list of > licences. Has license been discussed and resolved on the OSGeo-Incubation > list? > This should not pose a problem: "The CeCILL is a free software license, explicitly

Re: [Live-demo] ORFEO Toolbox in OSGeoLive?

2011-01-14 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
toolbox.org/index.php?project=OTB > >> > >> 5. I notice the CeCILL licence you use is not listed on OSI list of > >> licences. Has license been discussed and resolved on the > >> OSGeo-Incubation list? > >> > >> -> I am not aware of any discuss

Re: [Live-demo] Fwd: One week till OSGeo-Live Feature Freeze

2011-01-28 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I don't use it so I cannot comment, but any problems with the osmosis version included in lucid? http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/lucid/osmosis Johan On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Hamish wrote: > Javi wrote: > > I volunteer as OSM(Open Street Map) maintainer. Not sure exactly > > what it me

Re: [Live-demo] Fwd: One week till OSGeo-Live Feature Freeze

2011-01-29 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Indeed strange. Anyway - I can look if I can compile the maverick or natty package for lucid. It's a cleaner way to install than using a tarball. But I'd only do it if I'm sure that that version of osmosis is good for the live cd. Johan On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Hamish wrote: > Johan wr

Re: [Live-demo] Rasdaman build error?

2011-02-19 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Hamish wrote: > Hi, I've now had a change to review the script and see why the > icons didn't make it into the menu. > > > the following changes are needed in the rasdaman installer: > > -space on the disc is extraordinarily tight. please remove -dev packages >  wh

Re: [Live-demo] R stats build errors

2011-02-20 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Both are packaged for lucid. No need to compile them again. apt-get install r-cran-rgtk2 r-cran-rjava On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Hamish wrote: > Hi, > > some errors in the additional toolboxes for R stats: > > -source package RGtk2 fails as can't find GTK. -dev packages req'd? > -rJava did

Re: [Live-demo] Any autoconf gurus in the house?

2011-02-21 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I'm not an autoconf guru, but that's no problem, the project is not using autoconf :-) Quite a lot of changes are needed if you want to switch to a shared build. 246 lines in the makefiles contain direct references to a static build: grep '\.a' $(find . -name Makefile) |wc 2461220 19466

Re: [Live-demo] Re: LiveDVD Copyright Ambiguity - speak up if you have issues

2011-06-17 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Definitely don't make it non-commercial. This is a vague term that is hard to define. I would suggest that authors give a double license: one which is common for the whole live dvd, and a second one which is the same as the license of the software program. If at any point somebody wants to combin

Re: [Live-demo] Example LiDAR dataset for OSGeo-Live?

2011-06-27 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Late reaction, but SAGA could use it as well. Johan On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > LibLAS has applied to be included on OSGeo-Live and will require a LiDAR > example dataset. > Are there other OSGeoLive applications which could also make use a common > LiDAR dataset? >

Re: [Live-demo] Re: [mapserver-dev] We need some help getting mapserver 6 onto OSGeo-Live

2011-06-29 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Alan, Cameron, I am willing to help out with updating the install script, or rather the package. I'd prefer doing this in the debian git repository (in a seperate branch), so changes would be available for a future debian package as well (hence debian gis in cc:). This being said: it's a complicat

Re: [Live-demo] Re: [mapserver-dev] We need some help getting mapserver 6 onto OSGeo-Live

2011-06-29 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Ok, I noticed that the package itself is already at 6.0.0 in the ubuntigis-unstable repository. So only documentation should be adjusted (also documentation installed by the install script). On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Johan Van de Wauw < johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alan

Re: [Live-demo] Liberal licensing of Project Overviews in LiveDVD, do we want this?

2011-06-30 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Simon Cropper wrote: > Personally I have a problem with Project Overviews, or any technical > documentation for that matter, being locked up in Commercial-in-Confidence > derivatives. I think Project Overviews, which can be legitimately be > included 'as is' in a

Re: [Live-demo] RE: MapGuide on LiveDVD 5.0

2011-07-05 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Trevor Wekel wrote: > Moving discussion to the list... > > Implementing native compilation on Ubuntu 11 for MapGuide and Fdo will take > some time.  As such, we will be unable to make the LiveDVD 5 deadlines.  We > are already past the cut off for the install scri

Re: [Live-demo] RE: MapGuide on LiveDVD 5.0

2011-07-07 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Peter Rieks, (autodesk), > > As explained by Trevor, there are technical barriers causing a reasonable > amount off effort required to include MapGuide on the latest OSGeo-Live, and > consequently Peter suggests that MapGuide shouldn't be in

Re: [Live-demo] RE: MapGuide on LiveDVD 5.0

2011-07-07 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > I'm very reluctant to have documentation on OSGeo-Live for an application > which is not included. > Note that OSGeo-Live is being handed out to first time users, and if us > developers find it hard to install the application, then newbies

[Live-demo] gdal version on live dvd

2011-07-08 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
During testing, I noticed that also saga has the same tiff problems when linked to gdal 1.8. So I could also build with the standard distribution package, but that one actually also has quite a bad bug: it doesn't open gml files [0] Fixing the latter bug is very easy (only a rebuild is needed) and

Re: [Live-demo] Please help keep MapGuide on LiveDVD 5.0

2011-07-15 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I have a bit of spare time next week, and I may try to help out - but I'm not guaranteeing anything. I'll first make sure that saga and mapserver are up to date on the live dvd. Perhaps we should set up a repository with all changes necessary to build on ubuntu 11.04? I prefer git - but can sync th

[Live-demo] SAGA GIS: OK use of Open License

2011-07-15 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I have authored, or checked the contents of OSGeo-Live Project Overviews & Quickstarts for the SAGA project(s), and as far as I can tell, all source material can be legally included under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License for Project Overviews, and Creative Commons Attribution-Sha

Re: [Live-demo] Do we want OSGeo-Live on a USB or DVD at FOSS4G?

2011-08-09 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I would prefer a USB drive: 1) my netbook does not have a dvd device 2) it is *much* faster. I could get something done on a usb device. >From a dvd, that is much harder. Usuability and speed go hand in hand. If I want to test an application and it takes too long to boot, I'm already busy doing som

Re: [Live-demo] Can we remove OpenJDK from OSGeo-Live?

2011-08-10 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Even Rouault wrote: > I just wanted to share my surprise when reading that. I actually re-read twice > to be sure I didn't understand it the wrong way... > Unless things have changed the last year, most java gis packages rely on geotools, which in turn relies on j

[Live-demo] libtiff and gdal 1.8

2011-08-23 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hello everybody, While checking the osgeo-live dvd I noticed that saga no longer can open geotiff files. I'm adding ubuntugis and debian-gis in cc: as this issue also affects ubuntugis-unstable and debian experimental. The same is true for the orfeo toolbox [1] and most likely other software using

Re: [Live-demo] changeset 7096

2011-08-26 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Hamish wrote: > Alex wrote: >> I think we just need clarification on what the change does. Sorry for the late reaction - would have been better to ping me on IRC, not reading this mailing list frequently. > > (tries to pull in a new saga which builds-depends on nat

Re: [Live-demo] Release Checklist 5

2011-09-06 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > 3a. What about the Download Win/Mac pages? We probably need a volunteer > to create at least a simple page that links to the downloads of said > apps from their usual websites. Perhaps we can put this on the wiki, so that every project can ens

Re: [Live-demo] Re: Fwd: OSGEO Live 5 USB Distribution testing

2011-11-23 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Very interesting to read this experience. In fact it makes me doubt whether we should not also focus on providing a live dvd for windows, where one could test different programs without having to install them, and which can use the same documentation and quickstarts as the linux version. I know man

Re: [Live-demo] What version of applications should we be installing on OSGeo-Live 6.5?

2012-11-09 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I'll have another go at trying to get mapguide on the live dvd. I managed to package fdo already (though the package still needs some finetuning), and space usage decreases a lot if we use shared libraries. https://launchpad.net/~johanvdw/+archive/mapguide/+build/3957203 On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8

Re: [Live-demo] What version of applications should we be installing on OSGeo-Live 6.5? - for mapguide / fdo

2012-11-19 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
w. Is there any chance > you might be interested in writing it? > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Documentation > > > On 10/11/2012 1:12 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > > I'll have another go at trying to get mapguide on the live dvd. I managed > to pack

Re: [Live-demo] SAGA 2.1 on OSGeo Live

2013-06-14 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Brian, The install script is already updated :-) If it has been tested a bit more I may move the package to the ubuntugis repository, so it can use a more recent version of gdal (1.9), and all ubuntugis members can help testing. I'd prefer doing so only after sextante is also updated to support s

Re: [Live-demo] UbuntuGIS - Google Summer of Code - packaging Java based OSGeo applications

2013-06-17 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hamish, can you give some extra info on the JAI tightening? Anyway even without JAI changes we should really consider whether our first focus should not be to get rid of this NON FREE/NON OPENSOURCE library. I don't think people using the live dvd are aware of this problematic license. JAI is in

[Live-demo] Fwd: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Live

2013-11-21 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Jake, Thanks for sharing! I'm forwarding to the Osgeo live mailinglist. Johan -- Forwarded message -- From: Jake Joel Date: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:10 PM Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Live To: disc...@lists.osgeo.org Hello All, I’m a graduate student in the South Dakota St

[Live-demo] New projects? geoext, hale ...

2013-12-20 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I've recently started using some cool open source tools which I belive would fit very well on the live dvd: Geoext: well not really missing since mapfish, geoexplorer, geonode, geonetwork and perhaps others are using it, but it would perhaps be nice to have an own overview and quickstart. It is a

[Live-demo] Packaging java gis software for ubuntu/debian

2013-12-20 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Thanks Jody, > So it seems that JAI (Java Advanced Imaging) is available in Ubuntu > Multiverse [1]? > I assume then that we should be able to package JAI dependant applications > like geoserver into Multiverse too? With jai in multiverse

[Live-demo] Fwd: Packaging and project re-organization

2013-12-26 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Angelos, I'm very much in favor. Well I actually made similar proposal before. Do we have an overview of which packages are not yet packaged in .deb files? Perhaps we can setup some IRC coaching sessions for people to get started with packaging. Johan On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Angelos T

Re: [Live-demo] Latest PostGIS package for Precise

2013-12-31 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Note that there is a version of postgis 2.1.1 and postgresql 9.3 also in this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~johanvdw/+archive/osgeolive No build for amd64 yet, but that is easy to fix. Johan On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Ivan Mincik wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > >

Re: [Live-demo] pgRouting PPA

2014-01-06 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Daniel, I noticed you have more recent versions (2.00-release) in your ppa than in your git repository. Can you push your changes? For the next live dvd I would like to build against postgresql 9.3, as we did with postgis. Johan On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:28 AM, Daniel Kastl wrote: > > > > On Mo

Re: [Live-demo] Nightly OSGeo Live DVD

2014-02-10 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Matthias, Check: http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/ Make sure you pick the latest version. In version 11025 geomajas was not working. Johan On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Matthias Streulens Geomajas wrote: > Hello, > > just to know, is there a nightly OSGeo Live DVD available? > I want

Re: [Live-demo] [OSGeo-Discuss] Final OSGeo-Live 7.9 testing sprint - call to action

2014-02-23 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Massimiliano, Have a look at: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project More specifically make sure you answer these questions: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply Johan On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote: > Hi Cameron, > would it possible to include i

Re: [Live-demo] creating an osgeolive VM from an ISO?

2014-06-24 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
You could boot up the iso in a virtual machine. On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Hi Angelos and others on OSGeo-Live. > Tim asks the following: > > On 24/06/2014 4:21 pm, Tim-Hinnerk Heuer wrote: > >> Hi Cameron, Is there an easy way I can get the current latest versio

Re: [Live-demo] presentation for FOSS4G Europe

2014-07-09 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Some notes on the presentation: I had the opportunity to do two presentations last year where Osgeo live played an important role. Rather than showing each and every project I put emphasis on the quickstarts (the website live.osgeo.org is useful on its own eg for people on windows, and how one can

Re: [Live-demo] pywps to osgeo-live

2014-07-18 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Jachym, Thanks for your work. our sourcecode is under svn (yes, we're old fashioned): https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk Not sure if you did this, but in general, we ask you to anser these questions when applying for a new project: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply Spec

Re: [Live-demo] pywps to osgeo-live

2014-08-04 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I agree with Ian. To avoid confusion I think we should perhaps update our overview and split up web services [1]. Now it reads: "publishing spatial data to the internet". That does not cover all services, nor is the list very understandable. I suggest split it up in data publishing services, meta

Re: [Live-demo] Saga Quickstart

2014-08-29 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hamish, I guess the mount helens demo will stay. In the end of the quickstart there are some pointers to other things one could try. Seems these were still referring to files from the region of Barcelona Seems I read over that part when testing the quickstart :-) Siki, I think we have some p

[Live-demo] Let's bring the OSGeo live packages to debian!

2014-09-10 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hello everyone, One of the goals for OSGeo live 8 was having more programs packaged as deb files. Although we are still far from installing everything from deb at least some programs were packaged, and this actually helped the build process a lot. With OSGeo live version 8 released, perhaps now i

Re: [Live-demo] [Board] OSGeo-Live as an official OSGeo project

2014-09-20 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I'm in favor of having OSGeo live as an OSGeo project. Especially I think we need a way to decide on proposals of changing some of the things we do (eg add quickstarts for libraries of move to git). Now these discussion usually end undecided. Johan On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Cameron Shorte

[Live-demo] packaging pycsw

2014-09-21 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:14:02AM +0300, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: >> >> +1. I already plan to upload all the packages I did initially to UbuntuGIS. > > So it is *really* short time to do this if you want to reach the next > stable Debian release. Please let us know if you need any help to > real

Re: [Live-demo] Post-Foss4g 2014 - new projects

2014-09-21 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Some other projects I thought would be nice: istsos: https://geoservice.ist.supsi.ch/projects/istsos/index.php/Welcome_to_istSOS_project mapmint: http://mapmint.com/ mapbox gl: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl/ whitebox gat: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/ topojson: https://git

Re: [Live-demo] problem with shared folder

2014-11-04 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: > On 11/04/2014 12:59 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: > > That said, I believe this is either a Virtualbox or Fedora bug. I agree, this does not seem to have a connection with the osgeo live dvd. This being said: there is not really a good reason

Re: [Live-demo] OSGeoLive 8.5 status: Nightly

2014-11-21 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hello Angelos, I suggest using gdal 1.11.1 rather than 1.11.0. The package is already available in debian experimental. I can add it also, but I would like to coordinate first :-) Johan On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > Hi all, > > Since we have officially started our de

Re: [Live-demo] Problem with spatialite-gui

2014-11-22 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > On 11/22/2014 08:38 PM, Micha Silver wrote: >> Since the OSGeo Live policy is to stick with apt-getable packages as much as >> possible, I guess the best is to wait till the debian fix filters down to >> ubuntugis. > > Why wait? You

[Live-demo] Adding istSOS to OSGeo live

2014-11-23 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hello Massimiliano, OSGeo live [1] is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu. It allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distribut

[Live-demo] Who will be at FOSDEM?

2014-12-01 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hello, I know that at least Bas (Couwenberg) and I will be going to FOSDEM[1] 31 january-1 february in Brussels (Belgium). Since this year there will be both a geospatial devroom [1] and a distributions devroom [2], it may be an ideal timing for having a Debian GIS - OSGeo live meeting. I have al

Re: [Live-demo] [OSGeo] #1428: Include GeoPandas on Live 8.5

2014-12-14 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Installation can be easy: There is a geopandas package already in our repositories. Johan On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Hi Brian, > I'd be interested to hear you expand on your thoughts about adding GeoPandas > to OSGeoLive. (I don't know anything about the project).

Re: [Live-demo] Request for - Live GIS Add Project (Cesium)

2014-12-20 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
+1 On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Thank you Bala and Patrick, > I'm delighted to see Cesium applying to join OSGeo-Live. I've been hearing > great things about Cesium, and with regards to your project description > below, you have addressed all the requirements that a

Re: [Live-demo] Who will be at FOSDEM?

2015-01-19 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 10:21:40PM +0100, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I know that at least Bas (Couwenberg) and I will be going to FOSDEM[1] >> 31 january-1 february in Brussels (Belgium). Si

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-09 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hi all, First of all I would like to thank Petr for his work on Maptiler. He has actually spent a lot of unpaid time to develop a tool which is useful for many users. Earning a living from open-source is hard - as most people who have tried will be able to tell you. Second I would like to point o

Re: [Live-demo] Retire MapTiler from OSGeo-Live

2015-02-14 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Even Rouault wrote: > Le samedi 14 février 2015 13:24:42, Activity Workshop a écrit : >> If anyone would like to help with this, we now have a wiki page (thanks, >> Angelos!) >> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MapSlicer >> > > There's another project named MapSlice

Re: [Live-demo] Invitation for OSGeo-Live workshop at FOSS4G Europe

2015-03-17 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > OSGeo-Live team, and OSGeo Education community, > > As per below, OSGeo-Live has been invited to put together an OSGeo-Live > workshop at FOSS4G-EU. > I see this as a good opportunity to build workshop material that can be used > by multip

[Live-demo] present OSGeo live at Foss4G

2015-04-20 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hello, Has anyone submitted a presentation on OSGeo live for Foss4G (Korea)? I'm not going myself but I would like to remind anyone going to submit a proposal (and perhaps inform this list). For FOSS4G Europe there is no presentation as probably everyone thought someone else would file a proposal

Re: [Live-demo] Problem with mounting shared folder in OsgeoLive 8.5

2015-04-21 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
I'd recommend installing the kernel modules from the repositories: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-addtitions-modules Reboot and try again. On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Elena Mezzini wrote: > Dear all, > > I've just installed new versions of both Virtual Box (version > 4.3.26_98988) and

Re: [Live-demo] Problem with mounting shared folder in OsgeoLive 8.5

2015-04-21 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > I'd recommend installing the kernel modules from the repositories: > sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-addtitions-modules > > Reboot and try again. Correcting myself: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11 virtu

Re: [Live-demo] Problem with mounting shared folder in OsgeoLive 8.5

2015-04-21 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Elena, I have actually tried this with a fresh machine. What I advice is running: sudo apt-get update (makes sure you have the most recent sources) sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils This will install X11 support, which means that your display w

Re: [Live-demo] Problem with mounting shared folder in OsgeoLive 8.5

2015-04-22 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Elena Mezzini wrote: > I would also suggest to upgrade the OSGeo-Live Quickstart for Running in > a Virtual Machine, because a lot of little things are outdated: e.g. > the name of packages, screenshots of Virtual Box "Virtual Hard Disk" > and of VM settings "Gen

Re: [Live-demo] Problem with mounting shared folder in OsgeoLive 8.5

2015-04-22 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Alex Mandel wrote: >> For the VBOXADDITIONS part I think we should consider installing these >> by default, so the instructions would not be needed anymore! I'll >> raise this at the beginning of our next release cycle. >> > > We have discussed this many times in t

Re: [Live-demo] 64bit version

2015-04-23 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > Hi, > > This is a good time to start thinking about the 64 bit support. > In my opinion we do not have enough regular testers to support dual arch for > our releases. How much work would it be to have one build in 64 bit so we can identify

Re: [Live-demo] [live-demo] Migration to git

2015-04-23 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Pro moving to git for documentation, but I would suggest moving to git also for the scripts. I see some value in being able to branch (eg osgeolive for debian). We could give more users rights to push to the master branch. Johan On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > On 04/23

Re: [Live-demo] present OSGeo live at Foss4G

2015-04-24 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Luca, I won't be present, so please submit ! On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > On 04/24/2015 03:07 PM, Luca Delucchi wrote: >> >> On 24 April 2015 at 13:56, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: >> >> Hi Angelos, >> >>> +1 >>> >> do you want appear as coauthor? >> >> I'm going to submi

Re: [Live-demo] Problem with mounting shared folder in OsgeoLive 8.5

2015-05-18 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:11 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > Slight update, I think Johan's method works now because virtualbox is > distributed differently. > > There used to be a Community Edition (Open Source) and a free for > private/academic use version. > > Now the main program is Open Source GPLv2

Re: [Live-demo] qgis 2.6.1 pluging for grass7

2015-05-21 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
The QGIS plugin does not support grass 7 yet. There is a crowdfunding initiative to develop this: http://www.gissula.eu/qgis-grass-plugin-crowdfunding/ Kind regards, Johan On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Giuseppe Amatulli wrote: > Hi, > we are close to use the OSGeo-Live 8.5 for several worksho

Re: [Live-demo] Starting build cycle for OSGeo-Live 9.0

2015-05-22 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:26 PM, wrote: > But if I look at the "gpsprune" package, I can see version 15.1 in Trusty, > 17.1 in Vivid, 17.2 in Debian stable-backports, but only 10.1 in > ubuntugis-unstable (unless I'm reading it wrong). So does that mean for > gpsprune, OSGeoLive will continue t

Re: [Live-demo] [SoC] Report 1 - Integration of geospatial OSS in educational notebooks

2015-06-01 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Suchith Anand wrote: > Thanks Massimo. To give you some background. Few years back, i had some > initial discussions with folks in the Raspberry Pi Foundation (before they > became famous :)) to explore ideas on how we can use Raspberry Pi > https://www.raspbe

Re: [Live-demo] OSGeoLive 9.0 status: nightly

2015-06-03 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: >. We need to start thinking the new build process for our > documentation (debian package vs building during iso creation). I'm pro building it seperately as a package: * documentation can be updated * faster build, build failures for docume

Re: [Live-demo] OSGeoLive 9.0 status: nightly

2015-06-03 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: > > We also need to address this issue with the image links: > https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/install_docs.sh#L56 > > Basically we need to move all patches from install_docs.sh into our > packaging. Yes. Currently the prod

Re: [Live-demo] OSGeoLive 9.0 status: nightly

2015-06-04 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Luca Delucchi wrote: > On 3 June 2015 at 21:40, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Angelos Tzotsos >> wrote: >>> >>> We also need to address this issue with the image links: >>> https://

[Live-demo] compressing images with pngquant

2015-06-04 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Hi all, I've been experimenting with pngquant [1] to reduce the size of our png images in the documentation. This implements a lossy compression method, but all images I tried came out just fine. In total, we could save about 36Mb by using this compression on all files. I believe this is significa

Re: [Live-demo] compressing images with pngquant

2015-06-05 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been experimenting with pngquant [1] to reduce the size of our > png images in the documentation. This implements a lossy compression > method, but all images I tried came out just fine. > In tot

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