[OSGeo-Board] Motion: Promotion and Visibility Committee

[Arnulf Christl (CCGIS)]

> This is very good, but we should do this with board approval of every
> dollar spent.
>
> Gary

OK, to make it short: What I need quick is something/information that I
can cite when stand in front of an audience talking about the OSGeo. I
already do this. I give talks practically every week (thats why I am here
in Austria currently). This is fully caritative (no cost involved except a
smile). It will add visibility to OSGeo.

I want to have something that I can lean on (read, show, present, explain)
because I don't like the notion of saying "I am founder and director of
the Open Source Geospatial Foundation". Get me?

Arnulf.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arnulf Christl (CCGIS) [mailto:arnulf.christl at ccgis.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:49 AM
> To: board at board.osgeo.org
> Subject: [OSGeo-Board] Motion: Promotion and Visibility Committee
>
> Hi,
> I want to start a Promotion and Visibility Group. Please vote with a -1
> 0
> +1 to get the text below pasted to the Wiki (any changes and addtitions
> will be done there).
>
> +1 from Arnulf.
>
> +++
>
> Motion: Promotion and Visibility Group
>
> To spread word and build a strong recognition of the Open Source
> Geospatial Foundation major events should be covered professionally.
> Smaller events and local conventions in many cases already get covered
> by associated members (friends of the foundation). They should receive
> advertising material (flyers, handouts, etc. at a later stage maybe even
> demo CDs).
>
>
> == Activities =Several levels of activity should be addressed to support
> advertising
> the OSGeo Foundation depending on the character of the event to take
> place.
> * Web site linking
> * Create and provide paperwork (ads, flyers, posters, information
> brochures)
> * Giveaways (focused on larger events with special OS affinity)
> * Booth operation (large events)
> * Conference organisation (culmination of efforts, this at the FOSS4G)
>
> == Linking =A lot of good advertisement is created by organic linking
> (search
> engines find and recognize OSGeo links and rate them as highly
> relevant). Some know-how of the inner workings of search engines helps.
> Link the corresponding web pages. It should be avoided to create yet
> another mega event planner though. Only events that have a special focus
> on OS GIS should be included. Maybe a regional differentiation would
> make a lot of sense (see Motion: [[Regional Groups]]).
>
> == Presentations =Especially the trustees and interim board members should
> feel obliged to
> present, promote and support the dissemination of the OSGeo Foundation
> idea wherever they are. This includes:
> * Talks and presentations at conferences
> * Rund workshops at conventions
> * Operate a booth at exhibitions
>
> === Presentation Material ==A central document directory should feature
> presentations about the
> OSGeo.
> All presentations should be licensed as GNU FDL (or appropriate
> alternative) to ensure that they are freely available and recognition of
> the authors cannot be ommitted.
>
> === Posters, Give Aways, Flyers ==As soon as stable version of the logo
> and corporate (eeeck!) design is
> available it should be used throughout every written document or
> presentation. Maybe it will be necessary to hire professionals to this
> although we should not underestimate the creativity of the hackers
> sitting in the projects. It should be possible that every project
> maintains a certain degree of freedom regarding their outward
> presentation.
>
> ==== Notice ===Please do not create PPTs or PDFs any other closed format.
> (Motion by
> Arnulf to make this currently personal opinion a foundation directive).
> This might seem a minor problem, but it is actually not, closed formats
> are show stoppers. The preferred format would be HTML, so that it can be
> directly linked, searched and viewed at the OSGeo web site. Documents
> should be managed as code in the SVN with prototype, beta and stable
> versioning to ensue high quality. Initial contents can be developed in
> the Wiki collaboratively.
>
> === Talks, Discussions, Interviews ==Every chance to present the OSGeo
> should be taken, every simple link to
> the OSGeo website is another 2 ct. adding to publicity. This fact should
> be stressed in every aspect, this is the primary food for search engine
> ranking.
>
> === Local Chapters ==Individuals, businesses and local user groups who
> present their services
> for and with OSGeo Software should be invited to distribute written
> material, feature posters, etc.
>
> == Timetable =A timetable should be set up showing where OSGeo members,
> trustees and
> officials meet or give presentations. This timetable should be presented
> in a planner and in professional map services using the OSGeo
> technology.
>
> === Web Map Timetable ==For the time being I would suggest to set it up
> Wiki style with low
> overhead as we have eveything needed to do this up and running at 98%
> 24/7 at low cost. Once we manage to get an infrastrcuture running under
> the OSGeo hood it shold be moved there. Then we can also add security
> mechanisms to ensure privacy and prevent spatial spam.
>
> == Conventions, Conferences, Exhibitions covered by OSGEO == (this would
> probably show up as a separate page. After half a year it wold be split
> into archive, current and future sections).
>
> +++
>
> Arnulf is going to be at the following events this year anyway. Except
> for the CORP and CeBIT I have already reserved a slot for an OSGeo
> presentation in the main tracks.
>
> * CORP (Vienna, Austria - thats where I currently am)
> * FOSSGIS (Bonn, Germany - I had this already on announce but got pulled
> back by DanielB)
> * CeBIT (Hannover, Germany)
> * AGIT (Salzburg, Austria)
> * FOSS4G (Lausanne, Switzerland)
>
> This would be a place where I believe some of you might also go. Anybody
> interested?
> * http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/euos2006/create
> This is something that we should coordinate, to not show up in groups,
> hence the Wiki:
>
> There are more, mostly local German ones, they would belong in the local
> chapter section:
> * GeoMV (Rostock, Germany)
> * ...
>
>
>
>
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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Arnulf Christl

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