Labs on a Stick: 0.5
By the time I finished working on the USB drive distribution last night, I realized that there was actually a lot more that I wanted to share (and I still have about 50MB free on the USB drive). The software I put on it had gradually changed from being “FeatureServer demo and associated parts” to being “MetaCarta Labs demos”. The version I published last night took that into account insofar as the actual software included in the distribution, but not in the frontend and supporting materials.
To that end, I spent today rethinking how I wanted to do it, and I think I’ve come up with something I like better. You can check out the new labs-on-a-stick is available from the Labs on a Stick homepage, as a .tar.gz and a .zip file. This distribution is much bigger — ~9MB — because it includes video demonstrations of OpenLayers and MetaCarta’s geographic search engine. In addition, the homepage (instead of being a FeatureServer demo) is a list of all the things available, including four demos, software downloads, and video presentations.
Although this is probably not ideal for downloads by users on dialup, that’s not the target of the distribution, so for now I’m happy with that.
Now I can go back to concentrating on picking out what URLs I want to demo for my OpenLayers presentation. Hopefully (assuming I get it done in time), I’ll have that made into a video too, adding more material onto this nifty USB distribution.