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

[Cameron Shorter]

Sanghee,
Is your event before FOSS4G in October? If so, I can organise to send 
you FOSS4G postcards to advertise FOSS4G.

Alex covers most of my comments.

Yves,
Have you considered using the LiveDVD instead of a USB key? I suspect it 
would be cheaper. (at ~ $2 per DVD). You can also include all the data 
and programs you suggested on the DVD as well.

Yves Jacolin (free) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here some idea "from" the Francophone LC. 
>
> In the past, we organised an OpenSource village inside a tradeshow with help 
> of local company (c2c). We gave to visitors of the OSGeo-fr booth an USB key 
> with OSGeo logo on the key and PDF flyer inside (in french). In the futur we 
> plan to add some aplications via OSGeo4w and data (from OpenStreetMap).
>
> We organized in the Open Source village and outside some conferences, birds of 
> feather, all kind of animation we can find in FOSS4G ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Y.
> Le lundi 13 avril 2009, Sanghee Shin a écrit :
>   
>> Very nice & useful informations are there!!
>>
>> Thank you very much, Alex.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/4/13 Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>
>>
>>     
>>> 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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