Objectives
enable immediate or emergency usage of geospatial
services
system maintenance through appliances (and its snapshots)
off-line geospatial services
portable OGC server
encapsulating data with functionality
leverage SOA and SaaS rather than pure ASP
Project history
started in 2005 as LiveCD Approach
used for GRASS crash course in CZ
in early 2006 completely moved to virtual platform
VMWare
published at VMWare virtual appliances web site