[OSGeo-Board] about OSGeo Goals

[Daniel Brookshier]

A magazine would be great! Please present this idea to the visibility  
committee, which you should thing about joining :o)

Daniel Brookshier
Community Manager
Office: 972-422-5261
Cell: 214-207-6614


On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:16 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In the "OSGeo Goals" at https://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/ 
> about.html
>
> The following items are bulleted
>
> * To promote the use of open source software in the geospatial  
> industry (not just foundation software) - PR, training, outreach, ...
>
> * Promotion and Visibility Committee
>
> maybe "Promotion and Visibility Committee" should be in parenthesis  
> without
> being bulleted.
>
> About outreach activities, probably one of the activities that  
> could be
> considered is an online journal or magazine that could be made  
> available
> under Free document or similar licence. Maybe a popular magazine  
> format
> would be better.
>
> Presently, the GRASS community is publishing a newsletter and maybe  
> some
> others in the OSGEO community are also publishing their own  
> newsletter.
> If such efforts could be combined, it maybe possible to start a OSGEO
> magazine without much effort and money. Maybe Markus can discuss with
> the people who are bringing out the GRASS news letter if they are
> interested in combining efforts with others to bring out an expanded
> OSGEO magazine. OSGEO magazine can server as a forum for reporting  
> recent developments and research, country reports, etc. OSGEO  
> magazine could
> also server as a advertising media for OSGEO related companies. Maybe
> company sponsors can be given free advertising space in the magazine.
>
> Kind regards
>
>
>
>
>
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