[Foss4g2012] Re: [OSGeo-Conf] Confirming Beijing 2012 Date
Seven (aka Arnulf)
seven at arnulf.us
Fri Nov 11 04:55:17 EST 2011
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Dear Song,
thank you for the quick feedback.
We have now started a mailing list [1] specifically for the organization
of FOSS4G. This will help to keep everyone up to date and make it easier
to refer to decisions when new people join in. Could you please all make
sure that the members of the Local Organizing Committee join this list?
Additionally it would be helpful to see a list of the people who are
involved with organizing FOSS4G, from the top level down to the ground
work folks. This will make it much easier to interact for all of us.
Ideally your team can create an OSGeo user account and add themselves to
the FOSS4G 2012 Wiki [2] page to get this list started. We will use the
Wiki a lot for organization and referencing things so everybody should
have an account.
Please do not hesitate to use this mail list and the Wiki for anything
related to FOSS4G in Beijing - including issues that you may have with
the way we usually organize this conference and which might conflict
with your style of doing things.
If you are not familiar with MediaWiki we can arrange for a short
Webinar to introduce to the basic editing functions. This should take no
more than an hour of online conference.
Best regards,
Arnulf
[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g2012
Please be aware that this list is open to the public.
[2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012_LOC_members_and_assignments
On 11.11.2011 02:32, xianfeng song wrote:
> Thank Arnulf, Cameron and Peter for your valuable comments. I agree
> with you three about how to improve it, that is, vector format and easy
> to edit, w/ FOSS4G ribbon, more compact, and text separated on the top
> of web page. Based on current design, we will provide a few options. The
> web site is soon coming, and we also wait for your suggestion,
> particularly comments from past conference hosts.
>
> Best,
> Song
>
> P.S.
> Arnulf, sorry for the lack of our feedbacks. We wil contact you about
> any progress here in next days.
>
>
> 2011/11/11 Peter Batty <peter at ebatty.com <mailto:peter at ebatty.com>>
>
> I agree with Cameron's suggestions overall - as he did, I like the
> general look but would like to see it more compact.
>
> One specific suggestion I would make is to not spell out "Free and
> Open Source Software for Geospatial" as part of the logo, and also
> don't make the dates part of the basic logo - you can add both of
> these items separately as needed (for example see the 2011 web site
> http://2011.foss4g.org/ - we have the basic logo top left and the
> other info top right). Just having to include FOSS4G, 2012, Beijing
> in some combination makes it easier to work the text into the logo
> and keep it compact.
>
> I did see the FOSS4G ribbon in there and think that is fine how it
> is, though maybe is could be a little more prominent with a
> different color.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>
>
> 2011/11/10 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>
>
> Sorry, about lack of feedback, here are some comments from a
> previous foss4g chair (I chaired foss4g 2009):
>
> * I do like the general flow of colour and shape which to me
> looks Chinese. This brings in a local flavour which is good.
>
> * I can't see the original red ribbon which has been a theme
> with all previous logos. I think it would be nice to keep the
> ribbon for links back to foss4g, but I don't see it as being
> essential.
>
> * There is a lot of white space above and below the "FOSS4G
> 2012. Beijing". This is not good, as it will make the logo
> difficult to include in other promotional places, such as on
> prominent people's blogs, or on supporting organisation's
> websites. Can you please rearrange in order to make the logo
> more compact.
>
>
>
> On 10/11/2011 10:22 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
>
> Hi Gao,
> sorry for the long delay, I just found this mail.
>
> Thanks you for sending in a first draft of the logo. It
> seems like the
> conference committee did not react at all, right? I am sorry
> about this,
> especially because we have been pushing you to get things done.
>
> I added the logo to the Wiki page [1].
>
> I also have some comments / questions:
>
> * Would it be possible to increase the size of the font, so
> that it is
> also easily readable in a smaller version? Find an example
> on the talk
> page [2].
> * We should also provide several different options, get some
> inspiration
> from past FOSS4G conferences [3].
> * Ideally you could provide the logo in the editable vector
> format SVG,
> then rescaling, modifying, adding text and creating high quality
> printouts is much easier. Alternatively EPS could also work.
>
> We should start using the OSGeo SVN to manage the material
> for FOSS34G
> 2012. Are you familiar with OSGeo's infrastructure?
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/__FOSS4G_2012
> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012>
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/__Talk:FOSS4G_Logo_2012
> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:FOSS4G_Logo_2012>
> [3] http://2011.foss4g.org/__content/identity
> <http://2011.foss4g.org/content/identity>
>
> On 01.11.2011 04:15, Gao Ang wrote:
>
> Hi Arnulf:
>
> The latest design of FOSS4G Beijing 2012 logo is
> attached in this letter.
> Can you help us upload this logo to the foss4g.org
> <http://foss4g.org> website if it's fit
> for your requirement.
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Best Regards.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Peter
> Batty<peter at ebatty.com <mailto:peter at ebatty.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello to Gao Ang and the Beijing team.
> I just wanted to follow up on Arnulf's note and
> encourage you to get a
> simple web page up with basic information (at least
> dates) as soon as
> possible. I have been asked about dates also, people
> are interested in
> planning already!
> If there is anything I can do to help point you in
> the right direction
> please let me know. I think it's important to get a
> logo shortly - we used
> the site crowdspring.com <http://crowdspring.com>
> and were pleased with the results (but obviously
> whatever approach you prefer is fine). As a high
> level reference, the
> timeline we worked to is at
> http://2011.foss4g.org/__content/timeline
> <http://2011.foss4g.org/content/timeline> (and
> this hasn't changed much from year to year).
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Seven (aka
> Arnulf)<seven at arnulf.us <mailto:seven at arnulf.us>>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am receiving the first requests for exact
> dates of FOSS4G Beijing.
> This information is not yet publicly available.
> From the conversations
> on this list I got this:
>
> OSGeo China: The proposed schedule is "18 Sept
> 2012 Tuesday" to "23
> Sept 2012 Sunday" for the conference.
>
> Q: The first day was dubbed "registration day",
> does that mean the
> regular conference would run from Wednesday to
> Sunday?
>
> We really need a FOSS4G 2012 splash screen up
> asap. Simple is beautiful.
> Just a few lines of HTML hacked in VI with a
> nice little logo and the
> exact dates are all we need for a start. This
> can be completely
> independet of the conference system we use later.
>
> For the time being I set up the FOSS4G 2012
> OSGeo Wiki page by simply
> copying and adjusting the page of 2011 to have
> something to point to [1]
> and also asked SAC to set up a conference list [2].
>
> Thanks,
> Arnulf
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/__FOSS4G_2012
> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012>
> [2] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/__ticket/822
> <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/822>
>
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