[FOSS4G2016] Sharing marketing materials

[Jeff McKenna]

Note that you can see now that people (website maintainers) are getting 
itchy to add the 2016 logo, and a marketing page still has not been 
developed for 2016 and sent to project teams (such as 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Marketing or on the main website 
such as http://2015.foss4g.org/about/spread-the-word/).

This should be the top priority now.

An example is Arnulf's logo message, which, is basically what I sent one 
month ago.

Now it is one month later, almost November, we really need a marketing 
page setup and distributed.

Should we consider funding this work?  Always a possibility.  Someone to 
create a page on the OSGeo wiki (such as 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2016_Marketing) or on the 2016 site 
(such as http://2015.foss4g.org/about/spread-the-word/), and then also 
to send messages to all possible networks (this is an important 
marketing task), including project lists, IRC channels, direct messages. 
  One could start by using the list provided by Sanghee in the previous 
message in this thread, of popular referral sites for 2015.

-jeff



On 2015-10-10 10:25 AM, Sanghee Shin wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> FYI, here are the top 30 referrals of FOSS4G Seoul webpage except from
> search engines.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> 신상희
> ---
> Shin, Sanghee
> Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
> http://www.gaia3d.com
>
>> 2015. 10. 10., 오후 1:07, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> 작성:
>>
>> Moved the QGIS ticket to the proper tracker
>> (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/issues/283).  It would be great
>> if a designer could comment there and provide a custom image for their
>> homepage widget, following their requirements of "940px × 300px and
>> taking into consideration the black stuff on bottom of the banner on
>> qgis.org <http://qgis.org>".
>>
>> Again, spending time to support the qgis.org <http://qgis.org> website
>> is worth it, as it gets the most traffic of any marketing material for
>> each FOSS4G.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2015-10-09 6:07 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> Some updates:
>>>
>>>  - added logo to http://www.foss4g.org/
>>>  - added logo to http://www.osgeo.org/
>>>  - added logo to http://www.mapserver.org/
>>>  - filed a ticket to change the logo on http://qgis.org (always the
>>> most hits for FOSS4G each year).  Actually if the 2016 designer can join
>>> this ticket directly there that would be great, as last year the Seoul
>>> team created a custom banner to fit the widget on qgis.org
>>> <http://qgis.org> ("940px ×
>>> 300px and taking into consideration the black stuff on bottom of the
>>> banner on qgis.org <http://qgis.org>").  Please join the discussion at
>>> https://hub.qgis.org/issues/13555
>>>
>>> I suggest that by next week you create a reference page for these
>>> materials, such as [1] and distribute that around to many project
>>> mailing lists, as each year most of the FOSS4G traffic is from these
>>> logos on different sites.
>>>
>>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Marketing
>>>
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>