Hi all, check out this great opportunity with the organisers who are also helping run FOSS4G with us next year. One thrust of this idea is to help get OSGeo lots of airtime at this event in April, so people plan for FOSS4G in September. Please review the attached and give your ideas.
Would you be available to help with an OSGeo booth there?
Would you be interested in presenting?
If so, then we can also put out a call for papers and pre-select a few to put into this track that we can run. Over a dozen papers over a few days, it’s a pretty great offer and no strings attached.
Tyler,
I think this is a good opportunity for OSGeo. I suggest forwarding to OSGeo Discuss asking for people who may be interested in presenting and man the booth.
Henry,
I suggest that you also include the OSGeo-Live DVD [1] in every delegate’s showbag. These DVDs have been one of the most highly sought after items at the OSGeo booths that I have been at as it has all the best Open Source GeoSpatial Software preinstalled and ready to trial.
The DVD will also be an promotional item for the FOSS4G conference, having people wanting to come back for more.
We can provide you with an ISO image, and artwork for the cover, and all you need to cover is the printing cost. $4 per DVD should cover it.
On November 9, 2010 02:22:40 pm Cameron Shorter wrote:
Tyler,
I think this is a good opportunity for OSGeo. I suggest forwarding to
OSGeo Discuss asking for people who may be interested in presenting and
man the booth.
That's the plan but I wanted to get marketing committee's nod first. I'll be
the event owner and will coordinate with GITA on it, unless some others are
interested too. I'll take it as a yes by others that it is worth going to.
In our IRC meeting there were at least 3 of us likely to attend.
This probably goes without saying, but obviously it makes sense for the FOSS4G Denver team to be engaged in this from a marketing perspective. I think as you said it will be a good chance to tempt people back for more at FOSS4G later in the year.
I will be at the GITA conference anyway and should be able to help out with a talk on this track if needed (I have also heard a rumor that there may be a chance of me doing a keynote talk at the main conference but that hasn’t been confirmed … if so that would give me a good platform to talk about both the OSGeo track and FOSS4G, in the context of the growth in open source etc etc).
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) <tmitchell@osgeo.org> wrote:
On November 9, 2010 02:22:40 pm Cameron Shorter wrote:
Tyler,
I think this is a good opportunity for OSGeo. I suggest forwarding to
OSGeo Discuss asking for people who may be interested in presenting and
man the booth.
That’s the plan but I wanted to get marketing committee’s nod first. I’ll be
the event owner and will coordinate with GITA on it, unless some others are
interested too. I’ll take it as a yes by others that it is worth going to.
In our IRC meeting there were at least 3 of us likely to attend.
On November 10, 2010 08:01:53 am Peter Batty wrote:
This probably goes without saying, but obviously it makes sense for the
FOSS4G Denver team to be engaged in this from a marketing perspective. I
think as you said it will be a good chance to tempt people back for more at
FOSS4G later in the year.
I will be at the GITA conference anyway and should be able to help out with
a talk on this track if needed (I have also heard a rumor that there may be
a chance of me doing a keynote talk at the main conference but that hasn't
been confirmed ... if so that would give me a good platform to talk about
both the OSGeo track and FOSS4G, in the context of the growth in open
source etc etc).
I will next put together a call for presentations within our track.
Any thoughts on how to maximise this benefit for FOSS4G are always welcome -
e.g. banner, material, presentations, etc. We can collect them in the wiki.
On 11/10/2010 07:54 AM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
On November 9, 2010 02:22:40 pm Cameron Shorter wrote:
Tyler,
I think this is a good opportunity for OSGeo. I suggest forwarding to
OSGeo Discuss asking for people who may be interested in presenting and
man the booth.
That's the plan but I wanted to get marketing committee's nod first. I'll be
the event owner and will coordinate with GITA on it, unless some others are
interested too. I'll take it as a yes by others that it is worth going to.
In our IRC meeting there were at least 3 of us likely to attend.
Thanks,
Tyler
I just checked and the GITA meeting overlaps partly with the AAG meeting
in Seattle 12-16 which we've done a booth at for the last couple of years.
So it's seems we'll need to split our force a little maybe relying on
Arizona and Colorado people to cover GITA and Washington, BC to cover AAG.
It's mostly 2 different markets so if we could do both that would be great.
