I am thinking about writing a press release about OSGeo's growing
international presence. The key item would be the launch of our chapter
in China, but would go on to include a few paragraphs about the other
chapters across the world that we are forming, esp. those in Asia. Why
local organizations are important to us, ebenfits of getting
internationalization and translation of products, support for
governments and countries that are increasingly looking for
"alternative" approaches such as open source, etc.
Publication date would be around the 19th of September, the date of the
China meeting.
Thoughts?
[I should have done a FOSS4G press announcement, but I never thought of
it. Rats. If someone wanted to write it up we could get it out in the
next few days, but I don't have the time myself right now...]
-mpg
On 9/9/06, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg@lizardtech.com> wrote:
I am thinking about writing a press release about OSGeo's growing
international presence. The key item would be the launch of our chapter
in China, but would go on to include a few paragraphs about the other
chapters across the world that we are forming, esp. those in Asia. Why
local organizations are important to us, ebenfits of getting
internationalization and translation of products, support for
governments and countries that are increasingly looking for
"alternative" approaches such as open source, etc.
Publication date would be around the 19th of September, the date of the
China meeting.
Michael,
My only thought on this is that we likely ought to
give similar billing to the new India chapter since
it is formed around the same time, in a similar sized
nation and with distinguished initial members.
The downside is that I don't believe there is a
comparable launch event to the one I believe is
occuring in China this month.
Best regards
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light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
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I wasn't able to get this done this week, sorry.
I will try and put something together immediately when I return.
-mpg
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From: fwarmerdam@gmail.com [mailto:fwarmerdam@gmail.com] On
Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 11:16 AM
To: dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org
Cc: chenrg@lreis.ac.cn; raghavan
Subject: Re: [VisCom] A China chapter press release?
On 9/9/06, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg@lizardtech.com> wrote:
> I am thinking about writing a press release about OSGeo's growing
> international presence. The key item would be the launch
of our chapter
> in China, but would go on to include a few paragraphs about
the other
> chapters across the world that we are forming, esp. those
in Asia. Why
> local organizations are important to us, ebenfits of getting
> internationalization and translation of products, support for
> governments and countries that are increasingly looking for
> "alternative" approaches such as open source, etc.
>
> Publication date would be around the 19th of September, the
date of the
> China meeting.
Michael,
My only thought on this is that we likely ought to
give similar billing to the new India chapter since
it is formed around the same time, in a similar sized
nation and with distinguished initial members.
The downside is that I don't believe there is a
comparable launch event to the one I believe is
occuring in China this month.
Best regards
--
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I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam,
warmerdam@pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial
Programmer for Rent
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