[OSGeo-Discuss] What usually your local chapter exhibit in a conference?

[Alex Mandel]

To get you started, you'll want to get an Exhibition Pack, these are the
basic items to setup an exhibit.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Exhibition_Pack

You'll also want to make a wiki page for your event like:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/CGS_2008
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/AAG_2009
These pages will also give you an idea of what you can hand out and what
to have at the booth.

Next you'll want to print some materials, there's a whole bunch to
choose from in the OSGeo svn.
http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/
You'll want to look in Marketing and maybe the Journal.

At our latest event we ran a Live DVD for demo purposes but mostly
handed out a general brochure and talked with people about what they do
and what OSGeo software might be useful to them.
In hindsite, we should of had a copy of the OSGeo Journal printed, and
buttons would have been nice.

Hope that's enough to get you started, you should probably have someone
from your team join the marketing committee mailing list to talk about
your event, ask questions and get some more ideas.
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

Enjoy,
Alex
California Chapter

Sanghee Shin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> First of all, we, Korean Chapter, held the first regular meeting of this
> year at the end of last month as a special session of KSRS(Korean Society of
> Remote Sensing) spring conference.  That was a very nice & successful
> meeting and we attracted much interest from many attendants from all over
> the Korea. We presented 5 papers and more than 17 members of our local
> chapter attended there.
> 
> Anyway, this time, we'll attend spring conference of GISAK(GIS Association
> of Korea) as a exhibitor to promote our activities & FOSS4G, which will be
> held at the end of this month. Since it's our first time exhibition, we
> don't have many idea on what we should exhibit, how to show FOSS4G and so
> on.
> 
> So, would you please share your experiences of exhibition in your region to
> make our first ever exhibition successful? What do you usually exhibit in a
> conference? Just hand out paper materials? Or do you have any good idea or
> experiences to market FOSS4G effectively to students, profs and researchers?
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
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