[FOSS4G-Oceania] FOSS4G & Position magazine

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 00:24:42 PDT 2018


Daniel, will there be space to include an announcement about the FOSS4G 
conference call for papers in tomorrow's Spatial Source email out?

We have a draft which is current getting reviewed here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bOYvafc6vE6v3XdMEgZ2EcopssBZEQDbzGln_IrTLsA/edit#

I expect it should be ready by tomorrow (Wednesday 20 July).


On 19/6/18 4:32 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've just chatted with Jon Tkach, National Sales Manager at Position 
> Magazine and Spatial Source.
>
> We discussed setting up a mutually beneficial relationship between 
> FOSS4G and Spatial Source which could possibly include:
>
> 1. Spatial Source / Position Magazine run stories about FOSS4G. 
> (FOSS4G team would need to provide some compelling stories which would 
> typically link to milestones such as "call for papers", "speakers 
> announced", etc.)
>
> 2. Spatial Source emails go out on Wednesday, so if we want to have 
> our "call for papers announcement" included in this week's email, we 
> should have it to Dan Bishton (Spatial Source editor) by first thing 
> tomorrow.
>
> 3. Position Magazine could potentially be provided to each delegate in 
> a show bag (if we have one) or maybe on our "show goodies" table that 
> we have been talking about.
>
> 4. Spatial Source/Position Magazine could be mentioned as a media 
> partner on the FOSS4G website. (We had this arrangement in place at 
> FOSS4G 2009)
>
> 5. One of the FOSS4G emails to delegates could potentially include 
> Spatial Source marketing message, such as "If you want to get a 
> subscription to Position Magazine use the code xxx to get a discount".
>
> Jon, was there anything else you wanted to add?
>
>
>

-- 
Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

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