[California] Re: [Marketing] Handouts for Conferences

[bwoodall]

Howdy Alex,

If there are any handouts remaining, I could also use them for 4-H State
Leadership Conf in late July at UCD.

And Thanks for the help and info for PES and look forward to meeting you
in July.

.......Bill,

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:03 -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
> Handouts have been queued and will be picked up in Chico tomorrow
> evening. We ended up making a crazy formula for how many of each to
> print based on our perceived interest from crowd, our own expertise and
> the coolness factor of the flyers.(About 350pgs total, but less if you
> count them as a stack, all extras will be returned to UCD for some OsGeo
> evangelizing)
> 
> Budget and more details are on the wiki page.
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CGS_2008
> 
> Oh and the tshirts and hats are in my possesion along with the banner so
> we're ready to go.
> 
> I'll be committing back a nifty new business card we made that has the
> logo/slogan/url and the project list on it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 
> Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > The one thing I've learned from several events is that it could work out
> > a lot better if you have a "package" of brochures for passers-by (e.g.
> > all brochures stapled together)...  Once we got over 10 projects it was
> > unwieldy to put each individual brochures all out on the table :)  It
> > was productive to start discussions and to see which projects were most
> > "popular" to take.  However, volunteers spent lots of their time
> > grabbing a copy of each one and make a stack for the people.  Having a
> > package means you can print double-sided too and reduce the paper you
> > are carrying around.
> > 
> > The one thing that the package really needs is a cover sheet though, so
> > people don't look at the first project and think the whole package is
> > about that one :)
> > 
> > Hope it helps,
> > Tyler
> > 
> > On 30-Apr-08, at 9:12 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> > 
> >> Alex Mandel wrote:
> >>> M Team,
> >>> I was poking around at http://www.osgeo.org/visibility and trying to
> >>> figure out what and how many to print for the CGS conference this
> >>> weekend. First, I'd like to suggest that a link this page be more
> >>> prominent and easily located. I had to search google/osgeo in order
> >>> to find it.
> >>
> >> Yes, my bad. I never followed up with cleaning and ordering the
> >> related pages. We should dedicate an IRC meeting and a few mails up
> >> front on this list discussing options and then assign tasks. We are
> >> not really good at this yet. Means that we have lots of potential to
> >> improve. :-)
> >>
> >>> Also I wanted to see if anyone had any newer material or the editable
> >>> files for the v2 handouts.
> >>
> >> We have them and I guess Tyler has a set and maybe mpg. Again - this
> >> is not really too well organized. But since recently we also have an
> >> SVN in place and should probably simply upload whatever we have there
> >> so that we can sort out whats good and what needs an update:
> >> http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/ (this is all of OSGeo, click on marketing,
> >> for our folder). Ask SAC to become a contributor.
> >> Thoughts?
> >>> We could use some help figuring out what and how many of each to print.
> >>> We're open to ideas http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CGS_2008
> >>
> >> A quick scan of the web site did not tell me anything on the expected
> >> number of attendees. It depends a lot on the type of event. Prepare to
> >> distribute 10% of 20% of the number of attendees at smaller events
> >> (<1000). Depending on the scope of the conference you will see more or
> >> less interest for different projects OpenLayers/MapBuilder/Mapbender
> >> if its Web 2.0 folks, GRASS if its more scientific and analysis, OSSIM
> >> if its 3D building / architecture and 3D enthusiasts, GeoNetwork if
> >> its all highlevel public administration and so on.
> >> Thinking backwards - how many people can potentially pass by your
> >> booth and which projects do you favor? To how many can you actually
> >> talk - and then give them the appropriate selection of brochures
> >> individually?
> >> Double numbers for the general OSGeo flyer, it is the most gerenic and
> >> good starting point for anybody. Once they end up on the OSGeo web
> >> site or Wiki our job is done.
> >> If you have some good soap box talks up the sleeve and there are 1000
> >> or more attendees plan for more. At larger events it depends a lot on
> >> how exposed your booth is. This is influenced by the location of the
> >> catering, number and duration of pauses, general interest of the
> >> attendees, immediate interest triggered by talks and so on.
> >> Generally for updates of the brochures: We try to keep the brochures
> >> generic so that they last some time so that if you have ordered and
> >> printed in excess you can distribute them elsewhere.
> >> At a later stage we might want to bind the brochures or gather them in
> >> a portfolio so that people only have to pick up one to get all. It
> >> could be done centrally in off set print and large numbers. But this
> >> is a larger issue, very much at an idea stage yet and needs us have a
> >> look at our budget.
> >> Hope this helps,
> >> Arnulf.
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Alex
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