OSGeo Live
Collaboration at the geospatial free software realm
Geocamp 2012 · Campo Maior · 22/09/2012
Jorge Sanz · jsanz@osgeo.org · @xurxosanz
Slides at http://kcy.me/b1r8 (github)
Agenda
- What is OSGeo Live
- More than a DVD
- OSGeo-es case
- How a software project participates
- gvSIG case
What is OSGeo-Live?
Live DVD/USB/VMWare that runs a full fledged system with lots of FOSS4G goodness!!
History
- Ricardo Pinho launches GISVM in 2007
- Publishing dates driven by events:
- 2.0 FOSS4G Sydney (Arramagong) (30/09/09)
- 3.0 Int. Surveyors Conference - Australia (21/03/10)
- 4.0.1 FOSS4G Barcelona (27/08/10)
- 4.5 OSGIS 2010, FOSSGIS 2010 (14/03/10)
- 5.0 FOSS4G Denver (28/08/11)
- 5.5 SIG Libre 2012, FOSGIS 2012 (25/02/12)
- 6.0 OSGIS 2012 (21/08/12)
An OSGeo activity
- Formally from the marketing committee
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Community driven,
leaded by Cameron Shorter
Collaboration of developers, packagers, sysadmins, documenters, translators and power users
- Effort is distributed among many people (+70)
- VM highly optimized
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OSGeo Live documentation translation
- 60 overviews ej. Rasdaman
- 52 quickstarts ej. Open Layers
- High participation: 20 collaborators
Our secret:
ease the work for the translators
How?:
with the support of our technically savvy people
gvSIG participation
How a software project
joins OSGeo Live?
Which are the main tasks?
Call to action
At OSGeo-es and OSGeo-pt
- translate overviews and quickstarts
- it's an enjoying and easy way to
contribute and learn
At gvSIG
You can help us to improve the default project adding more available data, symbology, layouts, etc.
Thanks!!
Questions?