OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that 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 distributed, duplicated and passed around.

We will present, during two sessions, an overview of the Live DVD system, setup as a virtual machine, and demonstrate of some of the software available. At the end of the first session, participants will have a running Live DVD virtual machine on their laptops. During the second session we will review desktop applications, spatial databases, web mapping, and specialized tools. Among the desktop applications we will demonstrate QGIS and GRASS. We will show implementation of spatial databases and web mapping with PostGIS and Geoserver, and perhaps the Cesium javascript library for 3D map display. Additional software will hopefully include some new python tools for geospatial work, R for geo-statistics, MB-system for sea floor mapping.