<div dir="ltr">Great ideas. I can work with Bitner on the Minneapolis connections.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Wm Leler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wmleler@gmail.com" target="_blank">wmleler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">These are awesome ideas. I love it. --wm<br>
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On 22 Nov 2013, at 11:49 AM, Eli Adam <<a href="mailto:eadam@co.lincoln.or.us">eadam@co.lincoln.or.us</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi All,<br>
><br>
> We have so much theme material [1]! With all this theme material, I'd<br>
> like to start rolling it into promotional material and making a list<br>
> of where to use this promotional material.<br>
><br>
> Brainstorming and working in an evening social session to make<br>
> promotional material could be fun. We'll need to write some press<br>
> releases soon. Who wants to join me?<br>
><br>
> We have a great video targeted towards an international audience,<br>
> which explains Oregon geographically in reference to California. This<br>
> could become the basis for numerous additional spoof videos ("...For<br>
> you Europeans, Oregon is the state just north of California. For those<br>
> of you in Seattle, Oregon is the state that buffers you from<br>
> California. ...For Californians, Oregon is your hat that keeps the<br>
> rain off (image of map of CA and OR distorted into rainhat and rain<br>
> being shed). ...For those of you in Portland, Oregon is the 99%+ rest<br>
> of the state that you don't notice. ...For those of you in Minneapolis<br>
> or Halifax, we are at almost the same latitude, but we wake up later<br>
> (sleep in longer). ...For Australians, Oregon is your second closest<br>
> neighbor (hey isn't everything other than NZ 'far'?) more geo jokes<br>
> here (Funny but very simplistic images attached).<br>
><br>
> Looking at the excellent publicly documented and logically laid out<br>
> 2009 example recipebook/example could be a good starting point for us<br>
> [2] [3]. There is also the not quite as complete FOSS4G Handbook [4]<br>
> and in the last few days, Nottingham has gone on a kick filling in<br>
> information [5] [6].<br>
><br>
> Here are a few cracks at promotional material based on some of the<br>
> theme material.<br>
><br>
> Before the days of PostGIS, geometric buffer was done by releasing<br>
> 'buffer birds' carrying rocks in a radial pattern. After a specific<br>
> amount of time, the birds would drop their rocks marking the buffered<br>
> feature. The number of birds released was proportional to the distance<br>
> of the buffer and there was always some debate as to the best color of<br>
> rock to use for the buffer. These finer points have now been master by<br>
> Portland's artisan geometric craftspeople who still practice this art.<br>
> Come to PDX to sample our craft beer, ride our handmade bikes, carry<br>
> your laptop in our handmade bike bags, and yes, use our buffer birds.<br>
> Or just come to FOSS4G 2014 to learn about buffer done by PostGIS (or<br>
> OGR with sqlite dialect, or GeoTools, or JTS/GEOS, or GeoServer, or<br>
> MapServer, or....lots more buffer software to feature here).<br>
> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKe9OfWs-M" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPKe9OfWs-M</a><br>
><br>
> Riding to PDX(/FOSS4G). - A theme of pictures or short videos of the<br>
> many PDX-OSGeo'ers who ride their bike to work. Preferably wearing an<br>
> OSGeo shirt, crossing an iconic bridge, incrementing the bike counter,<br>
> etc. We can then also get into some geometric musing on this, which<br>
> direction do/will people ride? We can then try to make this a theme in<br>
> other cities too, get videos of David Bitner riding his bike to work<br>
> in the snow in MN, "David Bitner is riding to PDX (270.5 degrees)"<br>
> "Aaron Racicot is unicycling to PDX while on a ferry crossing the<br>
> Puget Sound (181 degrees) [Aaron, if you come up with video like this<br>
> in an OSGeo shirt, we'll seriously owe you]" Ride to us, see you in<br>
> PDX September 8-13th.<br>
><br>
> Listen to this gem from David Bitner, "One of the favorite stupid<br>
> sayings in the bike community here 'Portland is just a bike lane in<br>
> Minneapolis' Portland Avenue was one of the first on street commuter<br>
> oriented bike lanes when Minneapolis started getting serious about<br>
> bikes." If we have "riding to FOSS4G/PDX" promotional material, we<br>
> can definitely play on this.<br>
><br>
> "Riding to FOSS4G/PDX" can lead to other transportation fun. Wearing<br>
> OSGeo t-shirt while paddling kayak in Willamette, whole rowing team in<br>
> OSGeo shirts, on Trimet, on the aerial tram, walking, ... cross<br>
> country skiing .... motorcycle... skateboard... waterskiing...<br>
><br>
> Please wait until we formally release these as promotional material<br>
> before spreading them everywhere (i.e. the time for extensive<br>
> tweeting, blogging, Press Releases, etc will come once we have<br>
> something more than funny ideas kicking around).<br>
><br>
> What are your ideas? How can these be improved? What are good venues<br>
> for using the promotional material? When/where do people want to work<br>
> on this material? Who wants to put on an OSGeo shirt and shoot a<br>
> video of them riding in some iconic PDX location or manner? Who wants<br>
> to help shoot those videos?<br>
><br>
> Eli<br>
><br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g2014/2013-November/000146.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g2014/2013-November/000146.html</a><br>
> [2] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_1" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_1</a><br>
> [3] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:FOSS4G2009" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:FOSS4G2009</a><br>
> [4] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Handbook</a><br>
> [5] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Cookbook" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Cookbook</a><br>
> [6] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Reflections_by_the_LOC" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2013_Reflections_by_the_LOC</a><br>
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