<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Astrid Emde (OSGeo)" <<a href="mailto:astrid_emde@osgeo.org">astrid_emde@osgeo.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 3 September 2016 at 13:54:50 BST<br><b>To:</b> Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>FOSS4G Handbook some additional information</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>(Hi Steven. Somehow I have problems to submit to conference-dev list at the moment - no confirmation mail is send.... Therefore could you please forward the mail to the conference-dev list with suggestions for the FOSS4G Handbook)</span><br><span></span><br><span>Hello Conference list,</span><br><span></span><br><span>as mentioned in the FOSS4G handbook I follow the process ...</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook#Editing_this_document">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook#Editing_this_document</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Some parts in the handbook are very short or do not exist. I wrote the following suggestions already in Wiki syntax, so that they are easy to add if you like them.</span><br><span></span><br><span>For discussion: I suggest to add some more information concerning photos, videos, recording, streaming, twitter and OSGeo-Live.</span><br><span></span><br><span>== Press Releases ==</span><br><span>add the link so people know where to submit news</span><br><span>* <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/submit_news.html">http://www.osgeo.org/content/news/submit_news.html</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>== Photos ==</span><br><span>FOSS4G runs a flickr group called FOSS4G. You can provide images from FOSS4G conferences to this group. You can get a member of this group and share your photos.</span><br><span>If you run the next FOSS4G conference you can ask to become an admin to change the configuration (ask Steven Feldmann f.e)</span><br><span></span><br><span>* <a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/foss4g/">https://www.flickr.com/groups/foss4g/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>== Videos ==</span><br><span>=== Vimeo ===</span><br><span>Foss4G runs a vimeo account. Where you can upload 20GB per week. Some conference where uploaded here. A full FOSS4G will produce more than 20GB of material..</span><br><span>* the account will be passed every year after the conference to the next team</span><br><span>* <a href="https://vimeo.com/foss4g">https://vimeo.com/foss4g</a></span><br><span>* Make sure, that you add enough metadata when you publish your video</span><br><span></span><br><span>There is a video landing page which refers to all videos from the last conferences.</span><br><span><a href="http://video.foss4g.org">http://video.foss4g.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/index.html">http://video.foss4g.org/foss4g2016/videos/index.html</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>The code for the landing page is in OSGeo git. You can request access and build your own landing page.</span><br><span><a href="https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g/video.foss4g.org">https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/foss4g/video.foss4g.org</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>=== TiB ===</span><br><span>* TiB in Hannover is happy to publish our videos from FOSS4G. Peter Löwe is the contact person.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>== Recording & streaming ==</span><br><span>FOSS4G conference should provide streaming of the talks and recording for later publishing.</span><br><span>* Streaming enables people that could not come to the conference to join and even discuss on twitter (like Jeff did 2016).</span><br><span>* Reocrding and publishing helps to spread the knowledge and awareness about OSGeo software</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>== twitter ==</span><br><span>* FOSS4G runs the account <a href="https://twitter.com/foss4g">https://twitter.com/foss4g</a></span><br><span>* the account will be passed every year after the conference to the next team</span><br><span>* use #FOSS4G2017 in your tweets (maybe also #FOSS4G?????????????)</span><br><span>* tweetdeck can be used to get a better overview about tweets, notifications, retweets... <a href="https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/">https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/</a></span><br><span>* <a href="http://buffer.com/">http://buffer.com/</a> (can be used to define tweets in advance and let them be posted at a defindes time)</span><br><span>* NodeXL shows you the tweet statistics in a graph <a href="https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/">https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>OSGeo-Live</span><br><span>----------------</span><br><span>(At the moment it says Live DVD in the handbook but nothing more... Title should be OSGeo-Live)</span><br><span></span><br><span>== OSGeo-Live ==</span><br><span>* <a href="http://live.osgeo.org">http://live.osgeo.org</a></span><br><span>* There is an OSGeo-Live team that provides every half a year an image of a collection of over 50 software projects and data and tutorials</span><br><span>* the OSGeo-live team prepares a Version before FOSS4G that can be used at the conference in the workshops, at presentation notebooks & and can be give away to the delegates as bootable USB drives. This is a great opportunity to spread OSGeo software and promote OSGeo!</span><br><span>* Also the OSGeo-Live team adds OSM data from the region where FOSS4G takes place (live 2016 data from Bonn was added)</span><br><span>* Also the OSGeo-live team can add your FOSS4G-Logo or material on the image</span><br><span>* the OSGeo-Live team will help you with USB and image - please contact them on the mailing list</span><br><span>* Get information about the OSGeo-Live team here <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a></span><br><span>* Workshops with OSGeo-Live: trainer can refer to Workshop material here <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install</a> (there is a link on the desktop of OSGeo-Live which will open the url)</span><br><span></span><br><span>The following changes or additions are for discussion.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Astrid</span><br><span>-- </span><br><span><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Astrid_Emde</a></span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>