[Foss4g2009] Remind your email lists about the FOSS4G early bird deadline

[Cameron Shorter]

OSGeo community leaders,

We are calling on your help again to promote FOSS4G. Early Bird 
registration closes in less than two weeks, so this is a very important 
time to contact potential delegates in your communities.

Of the delegates who came to FOSS4G in 2007, 36% reported they heard 
about it from a colleague and 10% from an email. This reflects the very 
successful emails that were forwarded via community leaders like 
yourselves to their projects, and communities. Viral marketing at its best.

Could you please forward the last press release to your communities, 
along with a personal message from yourself. Some of the personal 
messages people have used before include:

    * "I'll be presenting ... and look forward to meet you at FOSS4G ..."
    * "I've been to previous FOSS4G conferences and highly recommend
      them because ..."
    * "Our project will be represented at FOSS4G ..."
    * "At FOSS4G make sure you check out the ... "

Could you please let me and Antti (CCed) know what email lists you have 
forwarded onto so that we can track the effectiveness of the marketing. 
(This provides us with useful metrics to attract sponsors).

Also, if you haven't done so already, please add a FOSS4G link to your 
blog or web page, then reference your site as per: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Marketing. 26% of FOSS4G2007 
delegates hear about FOSS4G from web banner adds.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Cameron Shorter, FOSS4G chair.

Press release and translations available at: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_21

Look for your name below:

Project : Community Leader

chameleon    Paul Spencer
deegree    Jens Fitzke
eogeo    Allan Doyle
fdo    Simon Hope
fgs    Normand Savard
freegis    Paul Ramsey
fusion    Paul Spencer
fwtools    Frank Warmerdam
gdal    Frank Warmerdam
geomoose    Brian Fischer
Geonetwork    Jeroen Ticheler
geoserver    Chris Holmes
geotools    Jody Garnett
gislist (www.geocomm.com)    Jeff McKenna
gmt    Paul Ramsey
grass    Markus Neteler
gvsig    Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
ica-opensource    Suchith Anand
qgis    Gary Sherman
openjump    Landon Blake
jump    Landon Blake
kamap    Paul Spencer
mapbender    Arnulf Christl
mapfish    Cédric Moullet
mapguide    Robert Bray
mapnik    Artem Pavlenko
mapserver    Steve Lime
mapserver-de    Till Adams
MapStorer    Olaf Knopp
MapWindow    Daniel Ames
mbsystem    Shoaib Burq
ms4w    Jeff McKenna
openlayers    Chris Schmidt
ossim    Mark Lucas
postgis    Paul Ramsey
qgis-user    Gary Sherman
routergeocoder at lists.osgeo.org    Andrew Ross
udig    Jody Garnett
worldwind    Chad Zimmerman
geos    Paul Ramsey
osgeo4win    Frank Warmerdam
routergeocoder    Andrew Ross
Geoinformatica    Ari Jolma

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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Systems Architect
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
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