[OSGeo-Conf] FOSS4G07 Banner Ads

[Markus Neteler]

Paul, Helena,

absolutely. And our stats are also nice :)
http://grass.itc.it/webalizer/
plus 25 mirrors.

We did the banner as well for the last conference.

Markus

On 1/10/07, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I am pretty sure that we can put the banner on the GRASS web site -
> we can post it there as soon
> as you have it ready and then include notification about deadlines in
> the news and on mailing lists.
> I can discuss this with PSC and get some official approval.
>
> Helena
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>
> > When preparing the graphical identity stuff, we should get a suite
> > of web banner ads available that we can either pay to place on some
> > high traffic GIS sites (directionsmag?), or simply place on some of
> > our own project sites (mapserver, postgis, etc)
> >
> > (Amusing story, I was looking at the GITA site to see what kind of
> > list selling they do (doesn't look like they do, bummer) and they
> > sell advertising... $400-800 a month, for banner ads, depending on
> > placement. And they have site stats... they get 115K page views,
> > 24K visitors... wait a minute... so I check the postgis site stats
> > and sure enough, we do twice the traffic GITA does!)
> >
> > Anyhow, I think having banner ads on the top project sites
> > (postgis, mapserver, grass, qgis, etc) would be very helpful.
> > Hopefully we can prevail upon folks (particularly osgeo member
> > projects!) to host banners for a few weeks around key times (call
> > for papers, opening registration, end of early bird).
> >
> > Paul
> >
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