[Aust-NZ] FOSS4G 2007: Next steps:
Tim Bowden
tim.bowden at westnet.com.au
Mon Feb 11 06:11:54 EST 2008
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 22:08 +1100, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Thanks Shoaib,
> Good start.
>
> I'd agree with Tim, let's make sure we have a polished press release,
> which we simultaneously release from all sources.
> As we don't have any major deadlines, I suggest we release next Tuesday
> 19 Feb. This gives us a week to polish, and ensures that we get maximum
> publicity from Position Magazine.
Sorry, but we do have a deadline. We have media interests subscribed to
this list and I don't believe they will be inclined to wait (assuming
they consider this as news...) After tomorrow, it's old news.
Tim
>
> Lets get some choice quotes from key players.
>
> We can collectively edit a press release linked from:
> https://extranet.lisasoft.com/wiki/index.php/Foss4g-sydney
>
> (Last use for the lisasoft wiki before we move to an OSGeo wiki)
>
>
> Shoaib Burq wrote:
> > Good one Tim. Here is my slightly bloated version, please hack away
> > and sorry for my ignorance but do we have a media contact at this
> > point? Also can we use the OSGeo logo until we get one for the conf.
> > with the outline of the opera house :)
> >
> > Straw man (take2):
> > --------------
> >
> > *FOSS4G2009 Sydney Australia*
> > *
> > ** ** **"**User Driven FOSS4G"***
> >
> > * *
> >
> > *Sydney (Australia) selected to host the seventh annual conference on
> > "Free & Open Source Software for Geoinformatics" (FOSS4G) in 2009*
> >
> > *Monday, 11 February 2008* Aust-NZ OSGeo Aust-NZ at lists.osgeo.org
> > <mailto:Aust-NZ at lists.osgeo.org>
> >
> >
> > The Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo is pleased to announce we have been
> > selected to host the FOSS4G 2009 international conference. The
> > conference is planned for Sydney in November 2009, and is expected to
> > attract the leading players in the open source geospatial community.
> >
> > Holding this conference in the Asia-Pacific region will bring enormous
> > benefit to the region and will provide those in the wider geospatial
> > community an opportunity to discover the cutting edge of spatial
> > software development through to the state of the art in enterprise
> > deployment.
> >
> > ####
> >
> > *About OSGeo*
> >
> > /Please add …/
> >
> > * *
> >
> > *About FOSS4G*
> >
> > The spatial industry has been undergoing rapid innovations over the
> > last 4 years. The FOSS4G movement has been at the forefront of this
> > change due to its openness to share ideas, code and data. From its
> > beginnings the FOSS4G conference has had a reputation of being a
> > melting pot for great ideas in the spatial industry and a catalyst for
> > many successful geospatial products, standards and protocols. The 2007
> > conference was held in Victoria, BC, Canada and was a huge success
> > (www.foss4g2007.org <http://www.foss4g2007.org/>). 2008 conference
> > will be held in Cape Town, South Africa (www.foss4g2008.org
> > <http://www.foss4g2008.org/>). FOSS4G 2009 Sydney will be the seventh
> > "formal" gathering of the open source geospatial community and is
> > expected to focus on the increasing importance of FOSS4G in the public
> > and private enterprise.
> >
> >
> >
> > *Media Contacts:**
> > *Cameron Shorter
> > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
> >
> > -------------------
> >
> >
> > On Feb 11, 2008 6:32 PM, Tim Bowden <tim.bowden at westnet.com.au
> > <mailto:tim.bowden at westnet.com.au>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 15:11 +0800, Dr. Markus Lupp wrote:
> > > Tim Bowden schrieb:
> > > >
> > > > Publicity roll (Blogs etc):
> > > > Shoaib, Paul Ramsey, Chris Tweedie, Tyler Mitchell, slashgeo,
> > > > geowanking, nzopengis, banyon(geo challenged), any others we
> > may be
> > > > able to arm twist?
> > > >
> > >
> > > How about http://www.gisdevelopment.net/?
> >
> > Yep. Lets get a release together we can have out tonight.
> >
> > Straw man:
> > ---
> > The Aust-NZ chapter of OSGeo is pleased to announce we have been
> > selected to host the FOSS4G 2009 international conference. The
> > conference is planned for Sydney in November 2009, and is expected to
> > attract the leading players in the open source geospatial community.
> >
> > Holding this conference in the Asia-Pacific region will bring enormous
> > benefit to the region and will provide those in the wider geospatial
> > community an opportunity to discover the cutting edge of spatial
> > software development through to the state of the art in enterprise
> > deployment.
> > ----
> > Please hack it.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > > > Tim
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >> shoaib
> > > >> On Feb 11, 2008 5:02 PM, Cameron Shorter
> > <cshorter at lisasoft.com <mailto:cshorter at lisasoft.com>>
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >> FrankW tells me that Sydney was officially accepted
> > the 2009
> > > >> conference
> > > >> city by the OSGeo board at their last meeting.
> > > >>
> > > >> So I suggest we start on our next steps. Who wants to
> > do what?
> > > >>
> > > >> * Write Press Release for FOSS4G
> > > >> - Publish through OSGeo
> > > >> - Publish through Position Magazine. Wendy Chapman has
> > > >> already
> > > >> volunteered to give us free advertising in return for
> > a free
> > > >> pass at the
> > > >> conference.
> > > >> - Publish through Sydney Linux Users Group
> > > >> * Advertise for Professional Conference Organisor (PCO)
> > > >> - I have documents to fill in from SCVB I can
> > forward through
> > > >> to someone.
> > > >> * Set up Governance body as per:
> > > >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FOSS4G_2008_Governance
> > > >> * Set up email list
> > > >> * What else?
> > > >>
> > > >> --
> > > >> Cameron Shorter
> > > >> Geospatial Systems Architect
> > > >> Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
> > > >> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
> > > >>
> > > >> Think Globally, Fix Locally
> > > >> Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions
> > > >> http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html
> > > >>
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