[OSGeo-Discuss] 2008 Events on your calendar

[Arnulf Christl]

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
> Hi all,
> Starting into 2008 makes it a good time to update our event calendar.
> You can see events listed on the front page of osgeo.org - but there 
> isn't much in there right now:
> http://www.osgeo.org/event/2008/01/10/list/all/all
> 
> Keeping events in this list will help keep them on the radar for 
> potential marketing, speaking and promotion opportunities as well.
> 
> If you have an event that you think is important to OSGeo members to 
> know about, attend or that open source will be presented at, please drop 
> me a note with details and I'll add them to the site.  Details should 
> include:
> - Start/end date & time (with timezone)
> - Title of event
> - Detailed text - you can supply it with urls and other markup using 
> simple wikimedia syntax if you wish
> 
> We can also handle multiple languages for each event - so feel free to 
> include those as well.
> 
> Take care,
> Tyler

Hi,
sorry that I reply late...

We already have something in place to organize events including managing potential appearance of OSGeo there. The standard process could be to send the link to an information directly to the Discuss list. This alreday happens like here:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2008-January/002917.html

If anybody is interested they can then create a Wiki page and tag it as a "Proposed Events" like I did here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Information_Fusion_Conference_2008

When OSGeo does get involved the Category can be changed to "Events" to reflect involvement. All corresponding events and categories are listed here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Category:Events

Whenever an event has gone through this rather short formality and it appear in the Events listing it just needs to be copied to the Portal page. This should be done by people with WebCom edit role, simply send them an email to their list. 

In short, I don't think that it should be the ED's job to manage events for the community. She can and should take care of that herself. 

Best Regards, 
Arnulf.