Portable GIS update
Posted September 26, 2007 
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Comments(5) Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at FOSS4G and/or came up and offered me kind words of encouragement afterwards. I’m pretty overwhelmed in the level of interest in this. I’ve now done something I should have done before my talk, which is create a dedicated page on this site to do with it. At the moment it’s just a description of the project and what software is included- but hopefully soon it will include a link to a version you can download. You can also express your interest in the project there, and I’ll update it when new stuff happens…
Thanks again for everyone’s support!
I’m glad to see someone jumping on this. I’ve got a mixed bag of portable GIS apps that I use. I’d like to see further development on this. Portable means that it can be copied and run on a computer where a use has no admin rights. That is huge IMO for penetration of FOSS in the corporate marketplace.
James, you’re absolutely right about this. I’m keen on making it easier for beginners in general, corporate or otherwise- taking away that sometimes painfully steep learning curve. IMHO that makes it much more viable for adoption- it’s easier to convince your boss to let you do something if it’s ready to use out of the box. The interest in this topic has been amazing- and I could only do it because people like you blogged that it was possible to run some of the apps in this way. So thanks- and sorry you couldn’t make it to Victoria!
Jo
[...] on with this. Jo Cook presented at FOSS4G2007 a talk about Portable GIS. Jo has followed up with a blog post about the talk: Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at FOSS4G and/or came up and offered me [...]
Go for it! I think this is a great step forward, ac ouple of years ago I was excited about GIS-Linux Live CDs, but this is so much better!
Cheers Stephan! It’s great to have so much encouragement. Now, if I could just persuade my employers to free up some time to work on it…