[Marketing] Event listing (was: [[OSGeo-Discuss] Which 2011 conferences should we distribute OSGeo-Live DVDs at?])

Arnulf_Christl4 · October 28, 2010, 1:40pm

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Folks,
we had several efforts to collect information about events. One of them
was in the Wiki by creating a start page for whichever events that might
be interesting to OSGeo and then awarding it different categories. We
would move it up from Proposed [1] to Events [2] (which requires a
committed Event Owner [3]) and then to Past Events [4] for documentation
and archival purposes. This is a great way to organize things (at least
that was what I thought at the time we started it but it does not
really work too well.

Recurring events seem to manage fairly well, this obviously includes
FOSS4G but also AGIT, Intergeo, FOSSGIS [5], etc. They have their own
recurring page and then annual sub pages.

Then we have the "Upcoming events" section on the OSGeo main web site
http://www.osgeo.org/ which seems to work just fine. Cameron now created
a Google spreadsheet and the FOSS4G 2011 team had it's own list of
parallel events [6] duplication these efforts. But these are all only
informational and do not contain any information about how OSGeo was
involved.

It might be worth while to look into the way we manage OSGeo appearances
and potentially bundle resources (and clean up a bit while we are at it).

Thoughts?

Arnulf.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_Events
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Events
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Event_Owner
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Past_Events
[5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSSGIS_Konferenzen
[6] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Other_Conferences

- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which 2011 conferences should we distribute
OSGeo-Live DVDs at?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:24:31 +1100
From: Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter@gmail.com>
Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
To: OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>,
"live-demo@lists.osgeo.org" <live-demo@lists.osgeo.org>

The OSGeo-Live project puts out releases every 6 months, and I'm
currently in the process of picking release dates for 2011.

I'm currently expecting to put out our next release in mid March 2011,
and the foss4g 2011 release at the end of August 2011.

However we do have a little wiggle room to adjust these dates to
accommodate next year's conferences.
Can people please let me know of all upcoming conferences or workshops
where it would be appropriate to include OSGeo-Live DVDs.

Feel free to add the conferences, dates, and contact person (if you
know) into our schedule here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB#gid=0

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Cameron_Shorter · October 28, 2010, 7:43pm

Arnulf,
Thanks for the reminder, I agree that we should consolidate this event information.

What is required by event organisers, and the osgeo-live team, is a chronological list of upcoming events. To achieve this currently from the wiki, you would need to dig through 20 or so web pages, which is not practical.

The RSS feed of events at http://osgeo.org looks promising, if we can have all potential events listed via that RSS feed.
I assume we'd be able to assign categories to the feed?
Eg: have: http://osgeo.org/rss_events?category=proposed

What options do we have available to us for the RSS feed?
Alternatively, we could create a master wiki table, or google spreadsheet listing upcoming events in chronological order.

On 29/10/10 00:40, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:

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Folks,
we had several efforts to collect information about events. One of them
was in the Wiki by creating a start page for whichever events that might
be interesting to OSGeo and then awarding it different categories. We
would move it up from Proposed [1] to Events [2] (which requires a
committed Event Owner [3]) and then to Past Events [4] for documentation
and archival purposes. This is a great way to organize things (at least
that was what I thought at the time we started it but it does not
really work too well.

Recurring events seem to manage fairly well, this obviously includes
FOSS4G but also AGIT, Intergeo, FOSSGIS [5], etc. They have their own
recurring page and then annual sub pages.

Then we have the "Upcoming events" section on the OSGeo main web site
http://www.osgeo.org/ which seems to work just fine. Cameron now created
a Google spreadsheet and the FOSS4G 2011 team had it's own list of
parallel events [6] duplication these efforts. But these are all only
informational and do not contain any information about how OSGeo was
involved.

It might be worth while to look into the way we manage OSGeo appearances
  and potentially bundle resources (and clean up a bit while we are at it).

Thoughts?

Arnulf.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_Events
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Events
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Event_Owner
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Past_Events
[5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSSGIS_Konferenzen
[6] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Other_Conferences

- -------- Original Message --------
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which 2011 conferences should we distribute
OSGeo-Live DVDs at?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:24:31 +1100
From: Cameron Shorter<cameron.shorter@gmail.com>
Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions<discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
To: OSGeo Discussions<discuss@lists.osgeo.org>,
"live-demo@lists.osgeo.org"<live-demo@lists.osgeo.org>

  The OSGeo-Live project puts out releases every 6 months, and I'm
currently in the process of picking release dates for 2011.

I'm currently expecting to put out our next release in mid March 2011,
and the foss4g 2011 release at the end of August 2011.

However we do have a little wiggle room to adjust these dates to
accommodate next year's conferences.
Can people please let me know of all upcoming conferences or workshops
where it would be appropriate to include OSGeo-Live DVDs.

Feel free to add the conferences, dates, and contact person (if you
know) into our schedule here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB#gid=0

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Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
http://www.lisasoft.com

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Tyler_Mitchell1 · October 28, 2010, 8:22pm

On 2010-10-28, at 12:43 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

…

What is required by event organisers, and the osgeo-live team, is a chronological list of upcoming events. To achieve this currently from the wiki, you would need to dig through 20 or so web pages, which is not practical.

The RSS feed of events at http://osgeo.org looks promising, if we can have all potential events listed via that RSS feed.
I assume we’d be able to assign categories to the feed?
Eg: have: http://osgeo.org/rss_events?category=proposed

What options do we have available to us for the RSS feed?

We’ve kept the current events listing on osgeo.org/news to only include events pertaining to open source or where OSGeo will be present (more or less). We could add a field to the new event form then filter using it for the rss feed (or for a new feed). I think we have good flexibility on this front! We’d have to open up the ability for more folks to add to the list of events.

I can take a crack at it.

Tyler_Mitchell1 · October 28, 2010, 9:24pm

On 2010-10-28, at 1:22 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:

On 2010-10-28, at 12:43 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

…

What is required by event organisers, and the osgeo-live team, is a chronological list of upcoming events. To achieve this currently from the wiki, you would need to dig through 20 or so web pages, which is not practical.

The RSS feed of events at http://osgeo.org looks promising, if we can have all potential events listed via that RSS feed.
I assume we’d be able to assign categories to the feed?
Eg: have: http://osgeo.org/rss_events?category=proposed

What options do we have available to us for the RSS feed?

We’ve kept the current events listing on osgeo.org/news to only include events pertaining to open source or where OSGeo will be present (more or less). We could add a field to the new event form then filter using it for the rss feed (or for a new feed). I think we have good flexibility on this front! We’d have to open up the ability for more folks to add to the list of events.

I can take a crack at it.

Done - the ability to enter a ‘proposed’ flag is built in now. A separate feed as also available:
http://www.osgeo.org/events/feed/proposed

Now who will be adding the events?

Arnulf_Christl4 · October 29, 2010, 8:07am

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Cameron Shorter wrote:

Arnulf,
Thanks for the reminder, I agree that we should consolidate this event
information.

What is required by event organisers, and the osgeo-live team, is a
chronological list of upcoming events. To achieve this currently from
the wiki, you would need to dig through 20 or so web pages, which is not
practical.

Cameron,
Marketing and the broader OSGeo commnuity need some place to plan and
afterwards document events. The Wiki seems to be the right place to do
this.

Any ideas how can we improve the linkage between the OSGeo news and the
Wiki?

- From a web strategic point of view we might also want to keep visitors
on our own pages instead of sending them right over to the external
event pages where there might not be any more mention of OSGeo.

More mature Local Chapters are also starting to take over some more
responsibilities, linking to them from OSGeo and back is also important.
I have no idea how to improve this.

Arnulf

The RSS feed of events at http://osgeo.org looks promising, if we can
have all potential events listed via that RSS feed.
I assume we'd be able to assign categories to the feed?
Eg: have: http://osgeo.org/rss_events?category=proposed

What options do we have available to us for the RSS feed?
Alternatively, we could create a master wiki table, or google
spreadsheet listing upcoming events in chronological order.

On 29/10/10 00:40, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
Folks,
we had several efforts to collect information about events. One of them
was in the Wiki by creating a start page for whichever events that might
be interesting to OSGeo and then awarding it different categories. We
would move it up from Proposed [1] to Events [2] (which requires a
committed Event Owner [3]) and then to Past Events [4] for documentation
and archival purposes. This is a great way to organize things (at least
that was what I thought at the time we started it but it does not
really work too well.

Recurring events seem to manage fairly well, this obviously includes
FOSS4G but also AGIT, Intergeo, FOSSGIS [5], etc. They have their own
recurring page and then annual sub pages.

Then we have the "Upcoming events" section on the OSGeo main web site
http://www.osgeo.org/ which seems to work just fine. Cameron now created
a Google spreadsheet and the FOSS4G 2011 team had it's own list of
parallel events [6] duplication these efforts. But these are all only
informational and do not contain any information about how OSGeo was
involved.

It might be worth while to look into the way we manage OSGeo appearances
and potentially bundle resources (and clean up a bit while we are at
it).

Thoughts?

Arnulf.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_Events
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Events
[3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Event_Owner
[4] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:Past_Events
[5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSSGIS_Konferenzen
[6] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2011_Other_Conferences

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Which 2011 conferences should we distribute
OSGeo-Live DVDs at?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:24:31 +1100
From: Cameron Shorter<cameron.shorter@gmail.com>
Reply-To: OSGeo Discussions<discuss@lists.osgeo.org>
To: OSGeo Discussions<discuss@lists.osgeo.org>,
"live-demo@lists.osgeo.org"<live-demo@lists.osgeo.org>

The OSGeo-Live project puts out releases every 6 months, and I'm
currently in the process of picking release dates for 2011.

I'm currently expecting to put out our next release in mid March 2011,
and the foss4g 2011 release at the end of August 2011.

However we do have a little wiggle room to adjust these dates to
accommodate next year's conferences.
Can people please let me know of all upcoming conferences or workshops
where it would be appropriate to include OSGeo-Live DVDs.

Feel free to add the conferences, dates, and contact person (if you
know) into our schedule here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB#gid=0

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Cameron_Shorter · October 29, 2010, 11:34am

Tyler,
Is it possible to add extra fields into the feed?

Information I think we should have:

Event Name
Start
End
Location
URL of Conference
OSGeoAttending? (Yes, No, Undecided)
Note, it is important to list big non-Open GeoSpatial conferences so we can avoid clashing dates
OSGeoWikiURL for this conference

And what is the process for adding events to the RSS feed source? I can add some items.

···

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Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

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Tyler_Mitchell1 · October 29, 2010, 4:11pm

Tyler,
Is it possible to add extra fields into the feed?

Definitely - can add them anytime.

To add new event items you log into drupal with your osgeo user id:
http://osgeo.org/user

Then add new content through the menu system. e.g.
http://osgeo.org/node/add

If “Event” is shown as an option there, then you already have permissions. Let me know.
cc’ing Frank since he and I have traditionally done the event postings. Adding another person or two would help, we just have to make sure we don’t step on each others toes. We usually cc: each other with any responses to emails from event owners, to let each other know who is posting the item. If that makes sense…

Tyler

···

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Frank_Warmerdam · October 29, 2010, 6:30pm

Tyler Mitchell wrote:

On 2010-10-29, at 4:34 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

Tyler,
Is it possible to add extra fields into the feed?

Definitely - can add them anytime.

To add new event items you log into drupal with your osgeo user id:
http://osgeo.org/user

Then add new content through the menu system. e.g. http://osgeo.org/node/add

If "Event" is shown as an option there, then you already have permissions. Let me know. cc'ing Frank since he and I have traditionally done the event postings. Adding another person or two would help, we just have to make sure we don't step on each others toes. We usually cc: each other with any responses to emails from event owners, to let each other know who is posting the item. If that makes sense...

Cameron,

Full details on how the news and events queues is documented
at:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/News_Queue

Information I think we should have:

* Event Name
* Start
* End
* Location
* URL of Conference

The above are already included in event listings.

* OSGeoAttending? (Yes, No, Undecided)

We do make an effort to note OSGeo special guests, etc.

Note, it is important to list big non-Open GeoSpatial conferences so we can avoid clashing dates

The events listing tries to only list events with some open source
geospatial connection of note. It does not exist as a calendar for
scheduling other events.

* OSGeoWikiURL for this conference

I'm not convinced this internal information is appropriate. But
in cases where it is it could be included in the text.

And what is the process for adding events to the RSS feed source? I can add some items.

I would note that the number of people posting is deliberately kept modest
to ensure some degree of consistency. If you would like to be news editor,
I'd be pleased to step down. I've been less than proactive in the role.

A motion to WebCom would likely be appropriate. Likewise, non-trivial
changes in how the news queue works should likely be discussed at least
briefly on webcom.

Best regards,
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Tyler_Mitchell1 · October 29, 2010, 6:37pm

On 2010-10-29, at 11:30 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

And what is the process for adding events to the RSS feed source? I can add some items.

I would note that the number of people posting is deliberately kept modest
to ensure some degree of consistency. If you would like to be news editor,
I'd be pleased to step down. I've been less than proactive in the role.

A motion to WebCom would likely be appropriate. Likewise, non-trivial
changes in how the news queue works should likely be discussed at least
briefly on webcom.

Just realised too, that I used the existing events listing and tools as an example. But, Cameron, keep in mind that I could clone the current functionality that is used and twist to match any needs for the marketing committee, etc. and not touch the current process in the end.

Basques_Bob_CI-StPau · October 29, 2010, 6:37pm

All,

I’ve been using Thunderbird Email for quite a while, and the recent incorporation of Calender into it prompts me to ask can a CAL service be setup, or maybe even added into an IRC channel, which pops into Thunderbird automatically for all channels I’m on.

Thanks

bobb

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam@pobox.com wrote:

Tyler Mitchell wrote:

On 2010-10-29, at 4:34 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

Tyler,
Is it possible to add extra fields into the feed?

Definitely - can add them anytime.

To add new event items you log into drupal with your osgeo user id:
http://osgeo.org/user

Then add new content through the menu system. e.g.
http://osgeo.org/node/add

If “Event” is shown as an option there, then you already have
permissions. Let me know.
cc’ing Frank since he and I have traditionally done the event postings.
Adding another person or two would help, we just have to make sure we
don’t step on each others toes. We usually cc: each other with any
responses to emails from event owners, to let each other know who is
posting the item. If that makes sense…

Cameron,

Full details on how the news and events queues is documented
at:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/News_Queue

Information I think we should have:

Event Name

Start

End

Location

URL of Conference

The above are already included in event listings.

OSGeoAttending? (Yes, No, Undecided)

We do make an effort to note OSGeo special guests, etc.

Note, it is important to list big non-Open GeoSpatial conferences so
we can avoid clashing dates

The events listing tries to only list events with some open source
geospatial connection of note. It does not exist as a calendar for
scheduling other events.

OSGeoWikiURL for this conference

I’m not convinced this internal information is appropriate. But
in cases where it is it could be included in the text.

And what is the process for adding events to the RSS feed source? I
can add some items.

I would note that the number of people posting is deliberately kept modest
to ensure some degree of consistency. If you would like to be news editor,
I’d be pleased to step down. I’ve been less than proactive in the role.

A motion to WebCom would likely be appropriate. Likewise, non-trivial
changes in how the news queue works should likely be discussed at least
briefly on webcom.

Best regards,

---------------------------------------±-------------------------------------
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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